Chapter 472 First Victory

Prior to this, Barron sent Phelan O'Neill, a senior executive of DS Investment Company, to New York.

When he got there, Phelan had two tasks initially, which was to investigate Wall Street fund companies and select a suitable company among them for acquisition.

For example, on Wall Street, there are countless fund companies, large and small, but it takes some effort to filter out the targets that meet their requirements.

However, it seems that Phelan O'Neal moved very quickly. Only half a month later, Barron got the results of his preliminary screening.

After reading the relevant documents sent by Phelan, Barron could see that Phelan O'Neal understood his request.

Through the information in these documents, Barron selected three of the fund companies - these fund companies have capital scales of less than 50 million US dollars, complete qualifications, and the company's background is simple and clean, and will not be retained after the acquisition. What hidden danger?

Then Phelan can have further contact with these companies and eventually acquire one of them.

Another thing is that Barron gave Phelan O'Neal a list, which included managers and traders of some fund companies, and Phelan O'Neal needed to conduct back-checks on these people.

In fact, this list includes some people who made huge profits from short selling during the subprime mortgage crisis in Barron's previous life. As a financial industry practitioner in his previous life, Barron naturally studied the subprime mortgage crisis in particular.

Among these people, the one that attracted Barron's most attention was naturally John Paulson, who became famous in World War I.

It's just that Barron can't say that he made this list too obvious, so even if Phelan O'Neill can't see anything now, he will always notice the weirdness after the subprime mortgage crisis. Therefore, Barron Lun directly mixed these people into a list of more than twenty people.

In fact, in Barron's view, what Paulson is good at is to keenly detect the signs of economic crises, so as to make profits from short selling. In his previous life, after becoming famous in the subprime mortgage crisis, the funds he managed were behind. The performance is very average.

At present, John Paulson has established his own hedge fund - Paulson Hedge Fund (Paulson \u0026 Co) ten years ago, and he tried his best during the Internet bubble crisis in 2001. At that time, he sold a large number of shorts, which caused Its fund bucked the trend and became popular, attracting many investors.

Now, the total assets managed by Paulson Hedge Fund have exceeded US$4 billion. Among the investment funds on Wall Street, it can be regarded as a large-scale fund company.

It's just that Paulson is very low-key, and now he doesn't have a great reputation outside of hedge fund industry insiders.

Among the information submitted to Barron's by Phelan O'Neill, this is the information about Paulson. However, Barron, who had seen relevant interviews in his previous life, knew that Paulson would start raising funds next month. Established a position in the first fund that shorted bond CDOs related to real estate subprime loans - the initial size of the fund was only US$150 million.

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On June 13, in Frankfurt, the financial center of Germany, the Kolo national football team, which participated in the World Cup finals for the first time, challenged the South Korean team here.

Thanks to O2 Telecom and Argos Retail Group as the team's sponsors, as well as sponsorship from the West African Group, the Colo national football team is treated very well this time around in the World Cup, with generous goals and winning rewards.

You know, the G group to which the Colo team belongs includes Colo, South Korea, Switzerland and France. Among them, the South Korean team is the most likely to win and score goals. Therefore, in this game, the team's It can be said that the young men are very active and hope to seize this opportunity to "get rich".

Based on Kolo's per capita income at this time, they had received an average of 100,000 Kolo shillings per capita after qualifying in the group stage, which is equivalent to a bonus of 10,000 euros. If they can really win a game, they can definitely be called "getting rich" "Yes.

After the game started, the players of the Colo team took full advantage of their physical strength and scored the first goal less than ten minutes into the first half.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that so far in the World Cup in Germany, teams from Africa and Asia have not won. Therefore, the game between Kolo and South Korea will be able to create a world cup as long as there is no draw. record, becoming the first winning team from the continent...

Based on what South Korea did in the last World Cup, there is no doubt that the Kolo national football team enjoyed home-like treatment at Frankfurt Stadium. After they scored, they received enthusiastic cheers and cheers from the European fans at the scene. celebrate……

However, after African teams take the lead, they tend to be free and loose, and the Kolo national football team will inevitably appear. In the second half, less than ten minutes into the game, the South Korean team took advantage of an oversight by the Kolo defenders, resulting in a tactical After a foul opportunity, through cooperation, the score was equalized.

Finally, when the game was coming to an end and injury time entered, Colo's players seemed to suddenly remember that the bonus for winning was much greater than the bonus for scoring a goal, so they began to attack fiercely, and finally at the last moment of stoppage time, Scored the decisive goal.

In the first game of the World Cup for the first time, the Koro team defeated the South Korean team with a score of 2:1 and won a precious victory.

The only pity is that they can't be as good as the Chinese men's football team in the World Cup as they were in the original time and space.

After winning this game, the members of the Kolo national football team got a surprising news, that is, they scored two goals in this game and finally won the game, so all members of the national team will share a sum of up to A prize of 15 million shillings, equivalent to 1.5 million euros!

This makes them very excited. It can be said that after receiving this bonus, it can change everyone's life.

However, the South Korean team, which lost in this game, was not so happy...

Because of what they did in the last World Cup, they lost the first game of the World Cup to a small African country that they had never even heard of before. They were also a weak team participating in the World Cup for the first time. I am afraid that in the future, Europe and the world will The media will no longer be polite to them, cynicism is light...

But Barron didn't mind at all.

After watching the game live, he temporarily separated from Fan Bingbing and returned to London.

Fan Bingbing will return to China with her accompanying assistants and bodyguards, while Barron will wait until the finals before coming back to watch the game.

Because there are still some things in London that he needs to deal with, and Argos Retail Group will soon be listed on the London Stock Exchange and listed for trading.