Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger electorate. Finally, the economy. Tot also propelled tsai
For example, healthcare, medical access and Senior Housing and similar to what tonya was discussing on the private equity side, those sectorfocused funds, we think, you know, our data has shown that those sectorfocused funds have generated more than the diversified funds and also gives us and staff the ability to tail tailor the portfolio more than we could if we were looking at diversified funds. Thats an interesting tabernacledynamic,maybe a benefe market. That isnt to say moving away from the funds and theres approaches to having both on the portfolio works pretty well and some of those diversified managers have proven to be good at pivoting from one sector to another and much more nimble than we could in terms of allocating a specialfocused fund. So i think the combination is attractive. Just touching on the market environment, i dont want to spend too much time but similar to private equity and most asset classes, real estate is fully value and real estates across markets and prop
Some the emerging markets exposure comes through asia and latin america. That brings me to the next page, 17. On the coinvestment front, spurs has been active. Though measured in gradual and in the implementation. Spurs made the first coinvestment in the private equity portfolio in 2014 and since has made an additional 11 coinvestments. Eight of those were through the commitment to Asia Alternatives and its fund heavtofund manat and four were outside. In each case, they were with a manager spurs has invested with and has an existing relationship through the portfolio. So they highlight that staff did a good job of existing manager knowledge to enhance execution capabilities in the coinvestment portfolio. Together, these coinvestments represent close to 200 million in commitments with an average byte size of 15 million which we feel is appropriately sized relative to the byte size at the fun level. And lastly, ill highlight spurs has been disciplined. Its 20 of the private equity and th
You see the reaction in the bond market. Volumes are light. We dont know much information at this stage. We will talk about it and give you an idea how to hedge at some of the risks. The countdown to the close starts now. The countdown is on in europe. This is Bloomberg Markets european close with guy johnson and alix steel. Guy stoxx 600 down by 0. 4 . Bobbing around that place all day. Treasury markets in the states are closed. Volumes a little light. That is as far as you can go with that one. Shell is up a bit. Energy, that is what you will see. The opposite ends of the spectrum, air france is down by 9 today. There is an impact on air travel here. Russian airspace closed, closing up another piece of airspace as well. Higher oil prices. All of this not good news for the airline sector, air france. It is down by over 9 right now. So there is an obvious first steps the markets are taking. Not enough information to take a second steps, the third steps in terms of understanding the imp