Nouvel enregistrement 10

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Morning, so that's good.

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Okay,

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let's see you

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again. Morning,

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Richard. Morning, France.

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Good to see you.

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Morning.

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Okay, great.

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We've got representation from across all

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the regions now.

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So thank you for joining us.

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It's my pleasure to have Richard Kaye,

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who you all know,

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lead portfolio manager on the Japan strategy and Congest

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Growth Japan with us today.

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The reason for the call is we thought that given

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a big performance,

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the one -year performance of the strategy is now looking very good.

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interest in Japan from fund selectors and marketplaces,

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and also how Japan is positioned currently with

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quite resilient stock reserves in terms of oil and things like that.

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It would be very good to hear from Richard and his views.

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We've also put together an investment paper

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that covers those points as well,

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which was attached in the invite.

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And what we wanted to do was use this as an opportunity,

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really, perhaps with some press coverage,

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but also working with the regions to have a bit of a mini push,

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if you like,

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on Japan.

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We've got some advertising creative that's ready to go as

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well.

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We will promote the investment

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letter for our channels.

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We might do a bit of social media.

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But also we need to tie this all up with working with the press and make sure we don't eat

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our own breakfast, as it were,

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and make sure that we give press a fair crack at the whip.

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So with that,

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maybe if I just hand over to Richard just for

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a quick intro,

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discuss what he's seeing in the marketplace,

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just briefly cover the paper,

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and then we'll open it for questions and thoughts from

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the regional press teams.

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So with that,

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if it's OK to hand over to you,

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Richard. Thank you,

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Richard. David,

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thank you very much.

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And thank you and thanks to everybody on this call.

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Really excited to talk about Japan.

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Really excited for your interest.

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David and Dawn here at Congress have written this paper,

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as David just said,

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explaining some of the very important themes going on in Japan

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right now.

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If I can just make it all a bit personal,

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I've done Japan for 30 years.

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I've spoken with many of you on this call before saying Japan will be great

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again.

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Japan market will go back to its 30 -year high again.

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And I think some of you have asked lots of simple questions.

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I can see smiles and people denying around

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this screen here.

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But you're always very polite to me.

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But this year,

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actually last year,

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Japan came back to its 30 year high.

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And this year,

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Japan went.

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percent bigger than its 30 -year high,

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and this year Japan went 100 % bigger than its 30 -year high.

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Japan, as you know,

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went to 60 ,000 yen on the Nikkei,

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which is the highest the Japanese market has ever seen.

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I spent 30 years waiting for that,

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and so I'm personally very excited about what's going on in Japan,

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very excited to talk with you all about that.

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What we wrote in the paper

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About the background for that Nikkei index move,

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for that Japan market move,

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it is a lot of the story.

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We have a new,

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very exciting government in Japan.

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As you know, Japan's first woman prime minister,

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female prime minister,

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with a very reformist agenda,

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trying to engage the country in its

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own strengths,

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trying to bring out the natural...

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strength of Japanese companies through deregulation,

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even tax reform,

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not standing in the way of the great strength which Japan has

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always had.

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And that's very much the same tradition as

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the government of 10 years ago,

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the Prime Minister Abe's government.

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What we also have in Japan driving that strong market move is,

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as the paper discussed,

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Japan's geopolitical resistance.

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The fact that Japan has enormous oil reserves and has been able

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to stand the foremost crisis much better than other

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countries.

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We mentioned details in the paper,

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but the many barrels,

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200 days of barrels of oil that it has in reserves.

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smart diversification of sourcing

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with natural gas heavily dependent on Australia,

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for example.

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And that has positioned Japan very well in the current crisis and again,

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supported the markets move.

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But there's another big thing,

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which again, we discussed in the paper.

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Japan just has great companies.

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And a lot of the AI boom that everybody's talking

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about actually hasn't happened in American stocks.

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other countries' stocks so much as in Japanese stocks.

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Japanese stocks that make the equipment and the materials,

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the technology and the software that drive the chips,

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that drive AI,

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have actually been the major drivers of the markets this

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year. And even last year,

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their 60 ,000 yen Nikkei number has been driven by AI stocks.

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And our portfolio is very heavy in stocks like that.

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Not because we are AI geeks or anything.

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I'm rather cynical about AI,

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but then that would just be my age.

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These are great companies.

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They do great stuff.

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Nobody makes things like them.

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They are indispensable to the supply chain for AI.

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So just real quick,

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30 years waiting for this moment,

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and now it's come.

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A new government driving people,

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engaging people,

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including young people.

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in the future of Japan,

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great political resistance and then great companies,

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especially for the AI supply chain.

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which has driven the overall market index to this very high level.

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And again,

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if we can just put in a little plug for our fund,

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Shantana Ward and I,

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we've been doing this fund for 17 years.

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We've always believed you have to ignore index

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weights.

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You have to invest in great companies.

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We've spent a lot of time looking for those companies.

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And again,

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we have something like 20...

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3 or 4 % of our fund in AI -related companies

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that have been very important for the performance of our fund

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in absolute and relative terms,

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as David mentioned,

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were something like just over 5 % ahead

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of the index this year.

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We haven't had a song like that for a

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long time.

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We've lagged the index in the last 2 or 3 years because the market has

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been very distorted by

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GPM moves and a big focus on what people call the value

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sectors.

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We're back this year and the great companies are supporting that performance

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as the market goes to historical highs.

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Our fund has actually benefited from that and more.

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I'm going to finish with a few last words.

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We mentioned some of the other great companies in this portfolio which

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show.

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and the team and I have spent a lot of time looking

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at.

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And I just want to leave one point.

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It's not just AI.

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We have other great companies in the funds,

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including Uniqlo Fast Retailing,

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which many of you know,

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probably wear the clothing company.

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We have Japan's GLP,

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major companies come from G -I -C -H -E -G -A -I.

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It's working with Eli Lilly for an oral

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a gop drug um many companies across

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the great landscape of japanese

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corporate architecture,

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which are benefiting the fund this year.

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And again,

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helping us with absolute and relative performance,

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which I humbly suggest is actually stronger than we're seeing in most

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other developed markets of the world.

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Many of the growth people have quit the

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space.

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You can see from yourself that the growth funds in Japan have given up.

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They've closed or they've been forced to change style during the last two or three

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years.

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because of the Congress structure,

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have been allowed to continue with what we do.

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And this is a very important moment for us.

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And so thank you again for your patience.

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And I'll close the box there.

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And if people are still interested,

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please attack us with questions.

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Fabulous.

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Thank you, Richard,

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for that.

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Richard Billing in the UK,

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I know that you had some questions lined up for Richard.

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So maybe if I could start with you.

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Yeah, no,

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thank you so much,

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Richard.

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That was great.

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I mean, I have read the paper,

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but it's just good to hear your words on it.

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So the first question was about the natural

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resource situation.

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I mean, it is amazing in a way that Japan is really

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known as a country that suffers from a death of natural

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resources, particularly fuel.

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managed to weather this storm very successfully until now.

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I just wanted you to maybe say a bit more about it.

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How long -term was the strategy?

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Can they actually deal with the situation continuing

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for very much longer?

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Are they still replenishing stocks from other

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countries like Australia as time goes on or not?

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It's quite amazing,

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but I just thought you could say a bit more about that.

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Thank you very much,

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Richard.

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Yes,

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it's amazing,

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as you say,

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how Japan has emerged very strong in this crisis.

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As you correctly point out,

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Japan is the biggest developed market with no

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resources of its own in the world.

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And actually,

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that's part of Japan's whole fascination for me.

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You put 100 million people on a small habitable

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space.

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The habitable space in Japan is half of the UK.

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You give them no resources,

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you give them no army,

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and they produce one of the strongest economies in the world.

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And they do that through ingenuity.

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And that includes the diversification of

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raw materials and commodities sourcing.

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And so directly to your question,

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yes,

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on natural gas procurement,

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they've leaned heavily on Australia for a long

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time. Australia pound is about 44 .0 % of its natural gas procurement.

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Oil as a total share of resources

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in Japanese energy is actually the smallest.

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of course you can't escape using oil but it's the smallest share of oil we

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have i think a graph in the report about that yes on oil

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um japan has diversified already uh beyond its

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middle east procurement specifically procuring from the u .s and

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Needless to say,

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the Japan -US relationship is strong to the two leaders right

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now and going back for a long time,

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including last July trade agreements

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between Japan and the US.

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So Japan has a history of being very imaginative

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in resource procurement because it has to be.

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And that history has shown itself very clearly in

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the current crisis and its resilience.

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Is it just going on a little tiny bit more?

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I don't want to give the impression that everything is fine and that Japan

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has no problems at all.

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Living in Japan,

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you hear news like running out of medical gloves.

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There's a famous snack made by a company called Calbi,

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C -A -L -B.

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If you're in Japan,

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you may have seen,

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you probably have seen if you've gone to convenience stores,

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Calbi snacks.

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They're sort of iconic.

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The company has stopped producing colour packages for its

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snacks and using black and white ones now because that saves

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oil resources.

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There are small problems of oil procurement,

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even though Japan has been ingenious.

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I don't let us deny that.

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For a portfolio manager,

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that, of course,

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is an opportunity as well as a threat.

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And some of our companies have already started to raise prices because of oil

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procurement issues.

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major chemical company in the funds called Shinetsu,

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S -H -I -N -E -P -S -U,

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Shinetsu.

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And those people raised prices to reflect raw

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materials shortage for PVC,

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polyvinyl chloride.

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And another company that announced some of the things recently is a sensor

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company, Keyence.

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I think that's strange.

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You may say that oil isn't very important in the making of sensors,

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but they refer to general supply chain issues.

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So there are issues.

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Richard, I don't want to give the impression that everything is perfect in the paradise

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land of Japan,

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but Japan has been far more imaginative throughout

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its history,

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including recently in this area,

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perhaps that other countries have been.

13:53

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Can I just have,

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so let someone else ask a question,

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but just one follow -up.

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Not really related to that.

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You mentioned that other growth managers had just packed

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it in.

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Now, obviously,

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if we were doing an interview,

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we wouldn't be mentioning names.

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But it is interesting.

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There's a sense of what proportion of your

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peers in that sector basically said,

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look, we need to dramatically change our strategy in order to survive.

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You attempt me into saying things that I shouldn't say,

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and thank you very much for the question,

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Richard. Very simply speaking,

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we used to think of ourselves as having about eight competitors in Japan growth,

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and those eight competitors were people with over a billion dollars of strategy size

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and,

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let's say, five years of history in the funds.

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That number we now think is two.

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People can say,

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oh, how do you define the two?

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Well, it's what I said now.

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It's a billion dollar star strategy size and five years.

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plus history and the fund and consistency

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to the growth style.

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What happened to the other six that disappeared?

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Well, three of them closed,

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three of them exactly because of AUM.

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Asset size reduction had to close.

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And three of them,

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you have to say,

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they changed their style market really,

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holding large constituents of the value index.

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Again, that's just an objective observation,

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not a comment on them.

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It's a strategy choice that they made.

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But the exciting thing is that if the Japan market is inherently able

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to respect the great companies of Japan in AI or

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all these other stuff that we talked about from...

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clones, Uniqlo,

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class retaining,

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through to Dubai and pharmaceuticals and many other areas,

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then actually that is an investment style which should work

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over time.

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And just because of our partnership,

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our long -term view,

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our ability to,

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our willingness to look through this thing,

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through these short term roles,

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I think we've been able to hold on to that principle of investing

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perhaps more easily than the others.

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Very interesting.

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And yeah, obviously,

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we wouldn't want to get too much into the specifics of

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all that.

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But I just I do think it's interesting background for a piece

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at the moment.

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Thank you.

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And more broadly,

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it's interesting,

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you know, Morningstar,

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when they write reports about Comgest,

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do talk about how we stick to our quality growth approach,

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not just in Japan strategy,

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but across all our strategies.

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And I think it's one thing that clients.

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you know, now know us for is,

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you know, the rigorous application of quality growth and

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not string,

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as those others,

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as Richard alluded to.

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Great.

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Thank you, Richard Billing from 4.

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Maybe if I jump to Marcus,

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Germany,

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Austria, your thoughts or questions.

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Yeah, thanks for that.

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I mean, I've only came to read the white paper this morning,

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but one of the major ideas of positioning Japan would be to offer an

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idea for diversification away from the U .S.

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market.

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Because within the U .S.

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market, there's the great story of

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AI also connected with a risk and what happens if there's

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a bubble that's bursting one day.

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So an interesting potential angle in Germany would be

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to offer an idea to diversify away from the US.

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However, when I look at the portfolio,

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I see the funds quite overweight in information

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technology compared to the index,

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which brings us to the questions,

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how important is the whole AI story for the portfolio companies?

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In the US,

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there's always the question,

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will the bubble burst?

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Will the investments the companies do be too

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high one day?

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How will this be perceived by the market on the medium or on the long term?

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And then the question is,

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if we're playing Japan as a diversification

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story,

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how dependent are we on this

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overall AI topic here within the portfolio?

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Thank you very much,

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Marcus.

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And to address your first point first about Japan

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as a diversification,

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we of course see it that way as

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well. In fact,

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if you look at,

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if I may put it this way,

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our fund versus the S &P,

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even in dollars over,

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I think,

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over more than a year now.

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And without performance.

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And if you do that same analysis,

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I think during the 2010 to the 2020

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period,

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so the last decade,

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it was a similar situation.

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So in fact,

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it may not seem that way,

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but Japan,

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the correct stocks in Japan,

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were an important diversification from even

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from the US index.

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Now, people don't think that.

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They think that the S &P has been the strongest index in the world and U .S.

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Secretary has been the only place to be invested.

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Obviously, it's the most liquid.

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But actually,

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niche funds...

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choosing the correct group of companies were diversification already

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against the S &P index for a long time.

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And they've regained that position recently.

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What about your question on the risk that we also have for

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AI?

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Indeed,

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as you say, we have a lot of information technology,

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AI -related companies in the fund.

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I'll see you on that.

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Like you commented,

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the AI data center investment cycle can't continue at

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this pace.

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There are two major points to mention against that.

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First, over

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Half of the demand of our information technology companies is not

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related to AI.

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It relates to things like electric vehicle demand,

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obviously a major question in Germany,

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the controversial political question in Germany,

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but electric vehicles,

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especially in Asia,

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especially in China,

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are being massively stimulated by government policy.

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And our companies produce the semiconductors for that electronic

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issue,

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electronicization.

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process.

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A lot of our information technology companies are also driven by the COVID

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lockdown replacement cycle for electronic equipment.

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So 2020,

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2021,

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we spent our whole time buying new phones,

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game machines.

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computers.

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We are renewing those right now across the world and

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our companies are providing the equipment,

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the chips, materials for that.

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So our information technology companies,

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in fact,

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are mostly not AI related.

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And then the majority of the 50

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% of our market capitalization in this fund is not information technology

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anyway.

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it comes like um my colleague shantana

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has covered that company for over 20 years um it comes like

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two guys c -h -u -g -a -i making the mobile toy the oral

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g -l -p um drug

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And we have a lot of companies that are involved in the transformation of

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Japan itself as a society.

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And companies are involved in the automation and

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the software revolution that's going on in Japanese society

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to deal with the changing labor force,

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the decline of young people and so on.

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And those companies,

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the changing Japan portion of our portfolio are as big a

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weight as the inflation technology weight.

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And we think they represent a very important hedge.

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