Chapter 346 Caesar Fund

On December 5, Bonnie Stuart, who was wearing a gun-gray women's suit that showed her noble temperament, came to Buckingham Palace and accepted the Queen's Medal of Honor.

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 "The Traitors", "Downton Abbey", "Love Island", "Strictly Come Dancing" and "The Shining Life". It can be said that each of them has become a She 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 his villa in Kensington to celebrate Bonnie Stuart's knighthood.

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 because he happened to have something to deal with. 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..."

The fixed income products of DS Capital were mainly Athena funds previously launched, and the funds were used for quantitative transactions in the securities market.

Therefore, the Athena fund is owned by DS Investment Company, which is 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 newly launched Caesars Fund by DS Capital is also a fund with a fixed income of 10-12%. The funds are used for equity investments in companies, 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 to carry out industrial layout, but also to hide the funds.

Yes, Barron’s previous profits from crude oil futures, as well as the initial principal, totaled US$8 billion (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 US$8.2 billion), and these funds Barron's is not prepared to invest in the name of DS Capital in order to hide some of its 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 was to set up this Caesars fund in the name of DS Capital to carry out industrial layout...

These funds are invested in Caesars Funds in the name of investment, and Caesars Funds can use them 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 in equity investments, is different from the 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 3 years is 10%, the average fixed income for 4 years is 11%, and the average fixed income for 5 years is 12%...

"To be honest, Your Highness the Duke, I'm not very interested in this kind of fixed-income investment. If it were something like the Mars Fund... I would be more interested in participating, but I will help you tell others. I think it will There are quite a few people 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.

Therefore, now he does not need to attract funds with too high a rate of return, nor does he need to take measures to protect capital to reassure investors like before...

"Okay, Mr. Walid, but our total raised amount for Caesars Fund this time is only US$10 billion, and now we have less than US$2 billion remaining."

"So fast?"

Prince Walid was surprised when he heard Barron's words. After all, not long after the news of the formation of this new fund came out, more than 8 billion US dollars in funds had been raised. This is indeed very amazing.

But when he thinks about Barron's extraordinary investment success rate 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 under management of BlackRock Group had exceeded 10 trillion US dollars...

So there is still a long way to go with these top players in the capital market.

As CEO of Caesars Fund, Barron 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 CVC Capital is the fund that cooperated with Bernie Ecclestone to buy the F1 Group in Barron's 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 after the state-owned Royal Mail. It was mainly formed in 2000 by the merger of Ocean Group and NFC Company.

EXEL is a global logistics company with 1,300 global outlets and more than 50,000 employees.

Yingyun Logistics' current market value is around 2.5 billion pounds. It mainly owns three operating companies, namely Exel (old NFC), Msas Global Logistics Company and Cory Environmental.

Among them, 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 on a global scale.

Cory Environmental is one of the largest waste management 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 shares of Ying Yun 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.