Scott Bessent
14 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 4, 2024 by Scott Bessent · said 24 times in 10 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ted Seides (13), James Aitken (4), Josh Wolfe (3), Paula Volent (2), Eric Peters (2)
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2025 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Geopolitical Uncertainty – James Aitken, Louis-Vincent Gave, and Marko Papic (EP.440)
- Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- Bob Oros – RIA Perspective at Hightower (Private Wealth 7, EP.452)
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2024 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Scott Bessent, oldest first
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 bullish
Nov 4, 2024 negative
Bessent: Mortgage book author's fund lost 100% during the subprime crisis
“We had a very distinguished mortgage manager come into the office. I think he'd actually written the Wiley book on mortgages and tell us what a great buy mortgages were halfway through the crisis, and I think his fund went down a hundred percent.”
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 positive
Bessent: Great external managers provide big thematic trade ideas and SPVs
“A very good manager is someone you're proud to be invested with. They have good returns and you never have to worry about the phone call that things have gone pear-shaped. So that's a very good manager for an outside manager. A great manager would be someone w…”
Nov 4, 2024 neutral
Nov 4, 2024
Bessent: Soros bought Jon Corzine's $3.5B Italian bond liquidation in 2011
“I think five days in, the biggest trade I'd ever done was John Corzine's firm got liquidated out of their Italian bond position, and it was a three and a half billion dollar trade. I still had the index card that I worked it out on. JP Morgan called us, and I …”
Nov 4, 2024 neutral
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 positive
Bessent: Allocators Get Best Results Adding to Good Managers in Slumps
“There was a very good study from the Common Fund that said one of the most successful strategies for allocators that when you believe in the manager, and I always tried to do this when I was at Soros or any investment committee that I'm on, When a manager has …”
Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 neutral
Nov 4, 2024 positive
Bessent: Microeconomic company data drives macro decisions better than aggregate models
“My style, still the Duquesne style, is that the micro drives the macro. We can get a huge amount of information from what companies are telling us. We can't predict the PCE deflator better than anybody. We can't have a better model for LEI, but if trucking com…”