Chapter 346 Caesar Fund
On December 5, Bonnie Stuart, who was wearing a gun-gray women's suit showing her noble temperament, came to Buckingham Palace and accepted the Queen's award.
This time, the Queen personally awarded her the title of Knight Commander Second Class (CBE) in recognition of her contribution to the promotion of British culture in the fields of publishing and television program production.
It can be said that in addition to Barron's operation, Bonnie's achievements in receiving the knighthood this time are also real.
Since she became a producer, she has successively launched variety shows and TV series such as "Thetraitors", "Downton Abbey", "Love Island", "Strictly Come Dancing" and "The Shining Life". It can be said that Each of them has become a well-known IP in the UK, and she is also one of the highly influential authors of the "Downton Abbey" novel in Europe and the United States...
With such achievements, there is really nothing wrong with being awarded the Queen's Order of Merit.
From then on, it was necessary to add "Lady" to Bonnie Stuart's official title to indicate her status as a dame.
To this end, Barron held a dinner at the villa in Kensington to celebrate the knighthood that Bonnie Stuart had received.
During the banquet, Bonnie kept smiling, and her achievements and status at this time were indeed enviable.
"Prince Walid and the beautiful princess, welcome you..."
At this banquet, Prince Walid and Princess Amina also came to London, also because he happened to have something to deal with, and the second issue of "Shining Life" produced by Bonnie's Giant Studio was the interview with Walid As a result, she also had a good relationship with Princess Amina.
“I heard that you are planning to launch a new fund, right?”
“Yes, it can also be regarded as a fixed income product...”
DS Capital’s fixed income products were mainly Athena funds previously launched, and the funds were used for quantitative transactions in the securities market.
So the Athena Fund belongs to the DS Investment Company headed by Daisy.
DS Capital's equity investment is mainly made by DS Holdings, managed by Amber Sheehan, and all funds used are DS Capital's own funds.
The Caesar Fund newly launched by DS Capital is also a fund with a fixed income of 10-12%. The funds are used for equity investment in the company, similar to the Global Industrial Investment Fund.
Caesar Fund is also managed by DS Investment Company, but it is relatively independent.
In fact, the reason why such a fund is established is not only for the same purpose as the GII fund, which is to use investors' funds for industrial layout, but also to hide the funds.
Yes, Barron’s previous profit from crude oil futures, as well as the initial principal, totaled 8 billion US dollars (after successively selling out the Dingfeng Media stocks that had been taken over at the previous price of 20 pounds, the total funds were close to 8.2 billion US dollars) US dollars), and these funds Barron are not prepared to invest in the name of DS Capital in order to hide part of the assets.
However, this kind of offshore company has a disadvantage when investing. When companies in many important industries make acquisitions, the government always has to conduct a series of reviews. Therefore, funds from unknown sources will Therefore it is limited.
So Barron’s way to solve this situation is to form this Caesar fund in the name of DS Capital to carry out industrial layout...
These funds are used in the name of investment. Invest it in Caesars Fund, then Caesars Fund can use it to make investments and acquisitions.
In this case, in addition to the funds in these offshore companies, Caesar Fund must also absorb funds from other investors. These are incidental...
"Our Caesar Fund, because its main investment is equity investment, is different from Athena Fund in that it requires a relatively long closing period, usually 3-5 years.”
This is easy to understand. The average fixed income for a 3-year period is 10%, the average fixed income for a 4-year period is 11%, and the average fixed income for a 5-year period is 12%... "To be honest, Your Highness the Duke, I am There is not much interest in this kind of fixed-income investment. If it were like the Mars fund... I would be more willing to participate, but I will help you tell others. I think many people will be interested in this. ”
After all, Barron’s status now is different from when he first founded DS Capital and launched fund products.
Based on his investment performance over the years, it can be said that he is quite convincing in the eyes of investors.
So now he does not need to attract funds with too high a rate of return, nor does he need to take capital preservation measures to reassure investors like before...
"Okay, Mr. Walid, but our total raised amount of Caesar Fund this time is only 10 billion U.S. dollars, and now we only have less than 2 billion U.S. dollars remaining."
"So fast?"
Hearing Barron's words, Prince Walid was surprised. After all, not long after the news of the establishment of this new fund came out, more than 8 billion US dollars had been raised. This is indeed very amazing.
But when he thinks about Barron's extraordinary success rate in investments in the past, he can feel relieved.
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Speaking of which, the current DS Investment Company, even with the newly launched Caesar Fund, their current fund company, plus self-operated funds, the total assets under management have only just reached more than 10 billion euros. Compared with There is still a huge difference compared to the total assets of 90 billion euros managed by the Rothschild family.
Not to mention that in Barron’s previous life, the total assets managed by BlackRock Group had exceeded 10 trillion US dollars...
So these are the same The top players in the capital market are still far behind.
As CEO of Caesars Funds, Barron's hired Petter Friedman, who previously served as vice president of CVC Capital, Europe's top private equity fund, and also had experience working at the Norwegian Government Global Pension Fund.
Well, it is worth mentioning that CVCCapital is the fund that Barron collaborated with Bernie Ecclestone to buy the F1 Group in his previous life...
After Pat Friedman took office, Caesars Fund made its first acquisition - buying shares of British logistics giant EXEL from the secondary market.
Yingyun Logistics is the largest logistics company in the UK besides the state-owned Royal Mail. It was mainly formed in 2000 by the merger of OceanGroup and NFC Company.
EXEL is a global logistics company with 1,300 global outlets and more than 50,000 employees.
The current market value of Yingyun Logistics is about 2.5 billion pounds. It mainly owns three operating companies, namely Exel (old NFC), Msas Global Logistics Company and Cory Environmental.
Msas is one of the largest freight forwarders in the world, providing various services such as multimodal transportation, regional distribution, inventory control, value-added logistics, information technology and supply chain solutions globally.
Cory Environmental is one of the largest waste disposal companies in the UK.
Exel has a strong market position in ground transportation supply chain services, including warehousing and distribution, transportation management services, customer-centric services, JIT services and global aftermarket logistics services.
In addition to purchasing the shares of Yingyun Logistics in the secondary market, Caesar Fund has also begun to contact the shareholders of this company, preparing to acquire their shares at a premium.
(End of this chapter)