Lets get straight into the burning issues. With me is kelsey butler, adam tim gunn, and chenal bass lake. A number of big Asset Managers have been getting into an expanding in private markets. What is it doing . Kelsey the firm is definitely growing its footprint into private credit. For one, they have appointed their cfo, Meg Mcclellan into a newly formed role of how to private bets. They are also doing hiring and potentially more acquisitions o grow their assets. Lisa what is the goal here . Why is this happening now . Kelsey it is part of a push from investors. Investors want someone who is specialized in these unique asset classes. Especially when you are talking about alternatives and there are some intricacies along the way. Lisa although, how much is this coming from investor demand, how much from the fact that fees are higher in the alternative space . Kelsey that is definitely a driver as well as these have kind of compressed along the board. Banks are making the smart decisio
Youre in the United States, we are seeing stocks come off their highs. The s p up 0. 1 . Apple contributing big, up 0. 5 on a positive note. Tesla is down about 0. 3 . Lets get straight to someone who can tell us more about all of that. Joining us from dallas is Burns Mckinney, Allianz Global Investors managing director and Portfolio Manager. We are seeing a mill top in the stock market a melt up in the market through christmas. Nothing major, but we didnt really make any losses. We didnt lose anything we gain through the year. Tot you attribute that what do you attribute that . Burns volumes are very low this time of year, so it doesnt take a lot to drive markets up. This is probably just a bit of a continuation of the early Christmas Gift that the markets got in middecember, where they resolved several geopolitical issues that had been weighing on uncertainty. Namely, the resolution or the detente in the u. S. China trade relations, as well as brexit, and establishment that the fed d
Security firm proofpoint. And 2019 ushered in some of the biggest tech ipos ever, as pinterest, peloton, uber, and lyft all went public. Wework, however, stumbled to debut. We will have a recap of it all. First, to our top story. Tesla shares set a new record high and reached that infamous 420 mark. You will remember 420 was the price ceo elon musk claimed tesla would go private at last year. Earlier today, musk tweeted, woah, the stock price is so high. Lol. Joining us to discuss is our Bloomberg News reporter, ed ludlow. Another day, another record high. What is driving it for tesla this time around . Reporter the momentum is all about china, taylor. Overnight, tesla secured 1. 4 billion in financing from local banks and much welcomed cash injection. That built momentum from last week, where in november, new vehicle registrations for tesla in china hit a five month high. Youll remember those vehicles are subject to a 25 import duty. The logic follows that if tesla get the plant can s
Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
Nt took into difficult territory. Can you give me a History Lesson on Travis Kalanick and what he delivered . Mandeep clearly he was a trailblazer and created this market ridesharing. He was probably too aggressive. Was on the cultural side. He did not care much about the reputation of the company that much. In hindsight, that was his mistake. Even though he was focused on expansion, there were certain reputational things that probably hurt him a lot. Even after the lock up, travis was probably the most in terms of selling the stock. Company hadall the a hard time keeping him on the board and involved in the day today aspects of the company and on the other hand he was telling the stocks so aggressively. Hopefully that is what this management hopes for is to change the shareholder base. Right now when you look at the shareholder base, they have softbank as the largest shareholder followed by benchmark. Chmark typically exists they are not there for the long term. For a large tech compa