Brookfield Asset Management
20 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2025 by Bruce Flatt · said 55 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Connor Teskey (28), Shane Parrish (22), Bruce Flatt (5)
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2026 46 mentions in 1 episode
2025 7 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 positive
Flatt: Great long-term investors preserve capital and deploy during market recoveries
“Coming out of recessions or cycles, coming out of the bottom, what's most important is just have everything you have intact. Do not lose anything, do not lose too much, and keep going, because there'll be many people who will have lost stuff. What's even bette…”
Apr 1, 2025 positive
Flatt: Brookfield successfully took a $6B unindexed shipping company private
“So we took a large container shipping company private. It had one analyst and nobody following it. It fit in no indexes. It was a six billion dollar company. And we took it private and it's been an exceptional investment.”
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
Flatt: Flawed investment decisions are far worse than mistiming the market
“The unsuccessful ones are harder to identify what happened. But often there are reasons why, and it either comes down to execution. You didn't execute properly. You had you missed time the market. Or you just made a bad, bad, flawed investment decision. And th…”
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025 positive
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Flatt: Passive investing creates wide price-to-value disparities for non-index companies
“For some companies, smaller, mid-size, don't fit indexes, they will be lost within public markets investing. Because active, ah, investors may not be investing in those sectors anymore, and if you don't fit the indexes, you have no buyers. Increasingly, though…”
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Apr 1, 2025 positive
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Flatt: Managing $1T prevents Brookfield from investing in small countries
“Like, we can't have small countries, just not because they're not good, they're not a good place to invest, it's just not meaningful to us. When you have a trillion dollars things, The benefit or the, or the- Drawback. Yeah, the drawback is that is that you ca…”
Apr 1, 2025
Flatt: Brookfield uses osmotic learning and has no private offices
“In general, we don't do training. Quote, unquote. But every day, every single person in this organization is learning. And it's a learned by osmosis process. We have open plan in the place, including myself, never had an office and people talk to one another a…”
Apr 1, 2025 neutral
Flatt: Politics barely matter when investing in domestic backbone infrastructure
“We invest in backbone infrastructure, largely, and even our private equity businesses are backbone infrastructure type businesses. Therefore, what's important for us is to go to good countries with good people that you can operate with the standards we operate…”
Mar 17, 2026 bullish
Mar 17, 2026 bullish
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Teskey: Brookfield Underwrote Westinghouse Base Case on Controllable Operating Improvements
“So we focused on the downside. We made sure our downside was protected. Our base case of an attractive return was delivered by things within our control, but there was asymmetric upside if some uncontrollable things that we thought or hoped would happen did, b…”
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026 neutral
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Teskey: Hard work is perceived more through availability than spreadsheet modeling
“Comment or dynamic that I think is sometimes underappreciated is just being available for other people on the team. And there's always people, both, both junior and senior to you that have questions, want to bounce an idea off you want career advice, deal spec…”