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Being dragged away from the terrace by the man and entering the bathroom, he finally mustered up the courage when he closed the door, and invited, "Do you want to come together?"

Simon smiled and shook his head, reaching out to help the woman close the bathroom door.

More than half an hour later, Sela Ward walked out of the bedroom, already wearing the black coat and tunic skirt from yesterday, showing her figure very well.

Women who wear black can easily discourage men, so they deliberately wore black yesterday.

It had no effect on him, and the man seemed to like it very much.

Caressing the handrail of the stairs, he walked down the stairs slowly, looking around curiously.

When I came downstairs, I saw a young girl in a light blue professional suit arranging the arrangement on the sofa in the living room. When she noticed her appearance, the girl greeted her politely with a touch of alienation: "Good morning, Ward Miss."

Withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, nodded and responded, "Morning, B."

This is one of the stewardesses on his private jet, blond, tall, young, he calls her 'B', and the other is 'A', which the man casually introduced last night, is actually Betsy and Alison, he seems I like this succinct title.

Don't know if there are still 'C' and 'D'.

There should be.

Yourself.

Hmm, it should be 'S'.

However, he didn't call himself that, he didn't even like to call his name, and he didn't use affectionate words like 'Honey'.Just open his mouth when he talks, and then she knows he is talking to her.

The attitude of the girl in front of her towards her was obviously indifferent and hostile, as well as unconcealable envy.

Of course I know why.

They were younger and prettier, but he was more interested in her.

Suddenly a little proud, following him to call her 'B' was also intentional.

He enjoyed the sense of superiority that he seldom experienced after leaving the campus, so he raised his chin slightly and asked the girl in front of him, "Where's Simon?"

Seeing her like this, Becky's tone became obviously colder, but she still said professionally: "In the restaurant, Ms. Ward, please come with me."

Simon is reading a newspaper at the dinner table.

Seeing her come in, the man greeted her, indicating that Becky, who came in, could bring her breakfast.

Sela Ward sat down opposite Simon, raised her chin naturally, and asked, "Is there any interesting news today?"

Simon glanced at the "New York Times" in his hand again, and said: "Saddam Hussein called on the member states of the Arab Cooperation Council meeting yesterday to unite the Middle East countries to use their unparalleled energy advantages to establish a A community of interests that competes with North America."

Sela Ward blinked her eyes a few times, with a hint of resentment on her expression, and said, "Will all men become so perfunctory after they succeed?"

Simon nodded with a 'serious' expression: "Yes, it's a cruel reality."

Sheila Ward wanted to grab something and throw it over, so she glanced at the clean tabletop, so she had to give up, and simply asked "Is there anything special about this news?"

Simon said lightly: "There is going to be a war."

Sela Ward wondered: "Why, is it just because the Middle East countries want to establish an energy alliance? The Soviet Union has been at odds with us for so many years, and it hasn't happened."

"It's different," Simon shook his head and explained: "The federal army may not be able to fight the Soviet Union, but it is still very easy to fight the Middle East countries, not to mention that there is oil there."

Sela Ward frowned slightly, and said after a while: "Simon, do you want to fight?"

"No, I'm a staunch anti-pacifist."

"In this case, Simon, you can try to use your influence to prevent the war from happening."

"I think self-destruction is the doomed end of human beings, so I will not try to prevent this kind of thing, because it is inevitable," Simon shook his head, his eyes fell on the newspaper in front of him, thinking of something, he read softly: "War, War never changes."

Sheila Ward was a little dazed. The young man on the other side seemed to be muttering a few words, which made her feel an inexplicable sense of despair and desolation.

There should be a long, long story behind this sentence.

But, she has never heard of it.

Alison and Betsy brought breakfast, Simon closed the newspaper, smiled again, seemed to have forgotten the topic just now, and said to the woman: "See, you like this place very much, otherwise, you can spend your time here On the weekend, I will have someone pick you up tomorrow afternoon."

I thought about it that way, but when the man brought it up, she subconsciously shook her head and said, "I don't want it anymore. I'm here alone, and I don't know where to go."

"There are so many places to go, the Space Needle, the University of Washington, the Olympic National Park, by the way, I heard that there is a chewing gum wall in Pike Place Market, you can go and see it, and stick a piece on it by yourself."

Sela Ward picked up the tableware that Alison handed over, shook her head with a smile and said, "It's disgusting to think about it. Besides, it's raining outside, I'd better go back to Los Angeles with you."

After breakfast, a group of people took a speedboat to leave Mercer Island in the middle of the lake, arrived at Langton City Airport close to the south bank, and boarded the plane back to Los Angeles.

It took less than two hours to go from rainy Seattle to sunny Los Angeles.

Sela Ward got off the plane at Los Angeles International Airport and found that Simon did not intend to leave the airport with him, so he knew that he had another itinerary.

She left the airport in the car that the man called out to see her off. Sela Ward watched another plane soaring into the sky in the airport. Suddenly, she felt as if the pumpkin cart and the glass slipper had all disappeared.

Cinderella can still wait for her prince.

She was probably just a passerby to him.

Damn man!

From Seattle to Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles to New York, Simon did not waste more than six hours of continuous flight time, reading various materials prepared by Cersei Capital along the way.

After a period of negotiation, Cersei Capital and Blackstone Group reached an agreement to acquire 7500% of the shares of Blackstone Financial Management Company for US$50 million. Cersei Capital.

In addition, Janet has re-planned the subsidiaries of Cersei Capital. The three subsidiaries currently confirmed to be established are Cersei Fund Management Company, Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company. Cersei Fund Management Company is naturally The most direct line of Cersei Capital, and the other two companies, are the names given by Simon based on the information in his memory.

Needless to say, Heiyan, the Apollo Management Company also existed in the original time and space.

In terms of ownership structure, the three subsidiaries are jointly held by the parent company Cersei Capital and the operation team, and each has its own business focus.

Cersei Fund Management is mainly engaged in financial hedging business, Apollo Management is responsible for alternative investments such as leveraged mergers and acquisitions and Condor Investment, and Black Rock Asset Management is engaged in mainstream securities, stocks and fixed income and other low-risk investment businesses.

After the establishment of the three subsidiaries, No. 6 to No. 10 sub-funds are fully controlled by Cersei Capital again, and funds are allocated to each subsidiary according to the actual situation.

The biggest advantage of this is that the funds raised by Cersei Capital are still nominally held by sub-funds No. 6 to No. 10, and the teams of each subsidiary are only responsible for managing them.

If the subsidiary team suffers losses or other conditions, Cersei Capital can flexibly withdraw funds to avoid the situation from deteriorating.

Going a step further, it is even possible to directly dissolve the subsidiary team and write off the subsidiary.At the same time, funds will not be lost due to the turmoil of the subsidiary.

This adjustment was actually inspired by Janet's acquisition of Blackstone Financial Management.

The funds of Blackstone Financial Management Company were raised separately, and Lawrence Fink’s team wanted to quit collectively. It was difficult for Blackstone Group to draw on the bottom line, so it could only choose to compromise and sell the company’s shares.

Wall Street has paid close attention to the recent series of movements of Cersei Capital, and the investment intentions of various investors are also very active.Obviously, many people expect Cersei Capital to continue to create the profit miracle of Simon's financial operations in recent years.

Facing the expectations of the circle, Simon did not feel too much pressure.

Because Simon knows very well that Cersei Capital does not need to continue to create miracles. As long as this company has a performance that exceeds most of its peers on Wall Street, it will continue to grow in the future.

With the prophetic advantage of the next 20 years and the management of an outstanding talent team, Simon is still very confident in achieving this goal.

In addition to the two teams of Cersei Fund Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company, Janet has also poached the other party's M&A business team from Drexel Securities, which filed for bankruptcy in early January, to form the team of Apollo Management Company.The person in charge of the team is Leon Black. After receiving the invitation from Cersei Capital and the promise of a 1% stake, Black quickly gave up his original plan to go it alone and lead the team to join Cersei Capital.

Everyone is a smart person. If they work alone, it will be difficult for Black's team to obtain too much money from investors in the short term because of the work experience of Drexel Securities, which has just gone bankrupt.

In contrast, Cersei Capital directly promised Leon Black $10 billion in initial operating capital, and has prepared the next stage of work for them: Condors for the still volatile US junk bond market. invest.

A large part of the US$2000 billion junk bond market in the US is still very repayable.

However, as the overall bond market situation continued to deteriorate, the prices of many bonds with repayment capabilities also plummeted.As long as you can find these bonds and buy them at a price far below the book value, when the economic situation improves and the company recovers, investors can get very rich returns in the process of paying off the bonds.

Finding valuable assets from a pile of financial ruins that seem to be wiped out is the basic idea of ​​vulture investing.

Janet did a lot of research on the US junk bond market last year and accumulated a lot of information, so she and Lawrence Fink talked about condor investment at the reception at Raybould's house some time ago.

However, in terms of understanding of the US junk bond market, probably no one can compare with Drexel's team.

第333章 宋飞正传（修）

Unlike sunny Los Angeles and drizzly Seattle, New York is still in the coldest time of the year.

Winter days are short.

When Simon arrived on the east coast and rushed from the Kennedy Airport to his apartment on Fifth Avenue, it was already dark.

Janet was not the only one in the apartment, Sofia Feixi rushed over from Europe yesterday.

Simon is still working, but Janet and many people around her are busy preparing for the wedding in early March.

The wedding has been confirmed to be held in Melbourne, and the guest list has also been preliminarily finalized. The Johnston family has specially prepared several chartered flights for this purpose.

Sophia came to New York this time for the wedding dress. The Gucci design team started to design the wedding dress plan after the wedding date of Simon and Janet was confirmed. The housekeeper came here to discuss some production details with Janet.

Last night, Jenny dragged her to discuss the style of the wedding dress until the wee hours of the morning, but Simon still woke up very early the next day.

I fumbled for my watch and looked at it. It was still [-]:[-] am on the east coast.

The woman in her arms noticed Simon's movements, cuddled and cuddled around him tighter, opened her small mouth in her sleep and bit the man's shoulder, and then fell silent again.

Feeling Janet's obsession, Simon dismissed the idea of ​​getting up and closed his eyes again.

Winter is indeed a very suitable season for laziness.

Waking up again, it was almost nine o'clock in the morning, and Janet was no longer around.

Simon opened the bedroom curtains after dressing and washing, and the desolate Central Park was filled with the soft sunshine unique to this season, pale and weak, and seemed to be reluctant to do so.

At least it was sunny.

When they came downstairs, Janet and Sophia had just prepared breakfast. Seeing Simon, Janet leaned over and kissed the man, and said, "I was just about to wake you up."

Simon embraced the woman to say good morning, greeted Sophia, and sat down at the dining table.

Sophia brought the breakfast and put a few copies of today's newspapers by Simon's hand. Then she sat down and talked about Gucci during the meal. The fashion week in February is coming soon. During this time, the housekeeper It's not idle, and I'm going back to Europe tomorrow.

After breakfast, Sofia rushed to the headquarters of Gucci's US branch. Simon and Janet had no work arrangements today, and they enjoyed the two-person world in the apartment as much as Dong Dong.

"...I've already asked people to start preparing. That day, a maze will be built around our wedding venue in the Yarra Valley Park with a wall of flowers. All kinds of flowers must be very beautiful..."

In a living room on the second floor of the duplex apartment, Janet was holding a thick folder full of various wedding planning materials and talking to Simon barabara.

Looking at the woman's flushed face when she mentioned this, Simon smiled and said, "Don't all women have premarital phobias? You don't seem to have any reaction at all."

Janet kissed Simon affectionately and said, "Only women who doubt whether they have met the right man will have premarital phobias, and I don't."

Hearing this, Simon kissed Janet's smooth and tender face, feeling a little unsatisfied, and stretched out his hand to hug the woman.

Janet responded naturally.

The two entangled for a moment, and soon turned into an unsuitable scene for children.

Tired of staying in the apartment for a whole day, Sophia didn't come back to disturb them at night, and the next day was Monday, and they still had to continue working.

On Saturday morning, Sela Ward told Simon that Saddam Hussein’s speech at the meeting of the member states of the Arab Cooperation Council was unclear. Therefore, the Cersei Capital team in New York was based on this news and some recent reports from European and American countries. Trends, began to layout in the oil futures market in advance.

As the hedge fund industry has become more and more prosperous in the past two years, Cersei Capital is not the only one keeping an eye on the oil futures market.

However, regarding Saddam's statement, many hedge funds believe that international oil prices should start to rise in the next period of time, but Cersei Capital is betting on a decline in oil prices.

In Simon's memory, because Saddam Hussein has expressed a gesture of "non-cooperation" with the West since last year, and because the Bush family in the United States is in power, a family closely connected with various oil giants, the European and American oil groups finally decided to deal with Iraq. hands on.

The first step is not war, but targeting Iraq's domestic economy, which has become increasingly vulnerable after the decade-long Iran-Iraq war.

The Iraqi economy is deeply dependent on oil, and the best way to hit the country's economy is to push down international oil prices.

Therefore, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which are closely related to European and American oil groups, will take the form of substantially increasing production to lower international oil prices in the next few months. This is also the most direct reason for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

In the original time and space, the international crude oil price plummeted from US$1990 at the beginning of 19 to US$13 in just a few months before the Kuwait War, a drop of more than 30%.

After the outbreak of the Kuwait War, the international crude oil price jumped directly from the bottom of 13 US dollars to the high of 40 US dollars, an increase of more than 200%.

Then, the Gulf War broke out. When most crude oil speculators thought that the international crude oil price would continue to rise, the war ended quickly at a devastating speed.The international oil price soon fell back to less than 20 US dollars. Even the European and American countries that launched the war did not expect such an outcome.

For more than half a year, international crude oil prices have continued to rise and fall, and countless investors engaged in crude oil futures trading have become rich or bankrupt overnight.

It can be said that if it is not for the prophetic advantage of the reborn, even if Simon can roughly predict the next situation, he would not dare to place too heavy a bet in such turmoil.

Otherwise, perhaps only one wrong judgment is needed, and the original huge profit may turn into a loss.

Just like the quantum fund in the original time and space, Soros was invincible in the Asian market, but because he misjudged the economic situation in Russia, he suffered a huge loss of more than 30 billion US dollars in the second year.

Moreover, the reason why Cersei Capital accepts funds from North America this time is also to minimize the occurrence of human variables, and at the same time, it can obtain some useful insider information through this exchange of interests.

Simon is in New York until Wednesday.

For two consecutive nights, he was attending the fundraising reception held by Cersei Capital. The funds of Cersei Fund Management Company had been secured. These two receptions were mainly for the Apollo Management Company headed by Leon Black and Lawrence Fink. of Black Rock Asset Management.

Apollo Management has eyeing the bond assets of the Columbia Savings Credit Bank, which is being auctioned and liquidated after being taken over by the federal government, and plans to raise $10 billion in the first tranche. In fact, $10 billion is not enough. Therefore, the investment team of Apollo Management will also cooperate with other financial giants on Wall Street for the next Vulture investment operation.