Chapter 1453 European Debt Crisis

   The reason why Xia Jingxing left Abel alone was not to beat him, but to ask about the progress of the task that was given to him.

   Hearing that the boss was not trying to trouble him, Abel felt a lot at ease, and then answered the boss's question meticulously.

   "Most of the Brahmin families in Boston are happy to see Facebook's listing. Of course, there are also a small number of people who express dissatisfaction."

   "Dissatisfied?"

  Xia Jingxing was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily, "The listing is not good, what are they dissatisfied with?"

   “They feel the ROI is too low, not as high as advertised a few years ago.”

Abel carefully looked at the boss's face before he said angrily: "I also think they are too greedy! In less than four years, the $3 billion investment they collectively subscribed for has grown to $9.1 billion, more than three billion dollars before the deduction. times the rate of return.

   This investment performance, no matter which country or company it is placed in, is enough to be called excellent.

   And as time goes on, the companies in the portfolio go public, and the net value of the fund will grow further. "

  Xia Jingxing sneered in his heart, these hereditary and irreplaceable American families are really overwhelmed by desires. After he took out the equity of two top Internet companies in China and the United States as a bargaining chip, he was still not satisfied, and thought the rate of return was low.

   But then again, this is in line with the predatory nature and cultural conventions of white people.

   "What else did they say?"

  Abel hesitated for a while, then said boldly: "They also want to acquire some equity in Vision Capital."

  Xia Jingxing's sharp eyes swept away from Abel, and suddenly said with a smile: "Okay! It's very good, then I will meet these old friends!"

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   A few days later, under the guidance of Abel, a small private reception was held at a manor house on Long Island, New York.

   Dozens of Boston's most prominent blue blood families sent one or two family members to the reception as representatives.

  Xia Jingxing, as the landlord, made a brief statement.

   "Four years ago, at the same manor, I promised all the friends present that Envision Capital would definitely create rich returns for LP.

   At that time, Envision Capital had just entered Wall Street and was not well-known. Many friends participated in the subscription of funds issued by Envision Capital out of their trust in me.

  To call everyone to this party today to announce a good news to everyone.

  Investment banks, law firms, and accounting firms have officially entered Facebook in batches a few months ago, and now they are intensively preparing prospectuses for Facebook.

   If it is the fastest, everyone will be able to see Facebook's prospectus next month.

  Vision Capital, one of Facebook's largest institutional investors, will have an epic IPO.

   This is not only a victory for Vision Capital, but a victory for all of us. "

   Watching Xia Jingxing raise the champagne, the guests present also raised their glasses to greet him, and now there is a happy atmosphere.

   In this happy atmosphere, several old men and old ladies stood in the corner and talked in low voices.

   "Mrs. Kerry, do you think Darren will agree to our demands?"

The old lady surrounded by a group of old men had fluffy curly hair and an elegant temperament. She held a glass of red wine and glanced at Xia Jingxing, who was surrounded by a large group of people and was busy socializing, and said, "Daren is a great guy who is willing to share. Guys, you shouldn't reject our kindness."

"and…"

  The old lady raised her head and took a sip of red wine before she said calmly, "There is an old Chinese saying that peace is the most precious thing."

   Several old men repeatedly chewed on the old lady's words, and then nodded, thinking it made sense.

  The old lady's husband, John Forbes Kerry, is a well-known Chinese scholar who knows how to deal with Chinese people.

  The old lady's family itself also has a lot of business in China, and is more familiar with China and the Chinese than they are all.

After Xia Jingxing finished dealing with the guests in front of him, Yu Guang noticed a few old men and old ladies who were chatting not far away, walked over with a smile on his face, and after greeting a few people, his eyes fell on Mrs. Kerry body.

   "Mrs. Kerry, long time no see, you are still so young and elegant."

"Thank you! Darren, you are as handsome as ever! I remember the last time I saw you, you just entered Wall Street, and Vision Capital is only a small and medium-sized hedge fund. Now you are already famous on Wall Street, and Vision Capital has developed into the world's largest hedge fund. Several hedge funds, in another two years, Bridgewater Fund may be compared by you."

  Xia Jingxing flattered the old lady with a smile, but was extremely vigilant in his heart.

  According to Abel's feedback, the person who took the lead in wanting to invest in Vision Capital was the elegantly dressed old lady in front of her.

  The old lady's full name is Teresa Heinz Kerry, the widow of former Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz III.

  John Heinz III is also the fourth generation heir of the century-old American company Heinz Foods.

After the death of her ex-husband, the old lady took the rich inheritance left by her ex-husband to marry John Forbes Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is now in the American political arena. At the same time, she changed her surname from Mrs. Heinz to Mrs. Kerry. The name still retains the famous surname of Heinz.

   Because this surname means a lot of money.

   And Kerry is not an authentic blue-blood aristocrat, his father's blood is German-Jewish, and his mother is from the prominent Forbes family.

  The Forbes family sold opium in the Modu Concession in the early years, and Kerry's grandfather was born in Modu. After Kerry succeeded Xi Po as the Minister of State, some domestic media shamelessly approached relatives and called him "the grandson of Modu".

   Kerry does have two brushes, and he can be called a tumbler in American politics, and several leaders have trusted him.

   In addition to being proud in the political arena, Kerry and his second wife are also well-versed in shopping malls, known as the richest senators, and have done a lot of business.

In addition to the well-known deeds of investing in the hydropower station in the snow-capped province in China, which has attracted public opinion in the United States, he has just assumed the post of Secretary of State. Buffett and the consumer PE giant 3G Capital immediately spent 28 billion US dollars to acquire some of the shares held by the Kerry couple The Heinz Foods, which caught people's imaginations.

  The power of the family is not small, and the courage is also really big.

   Thinking of this series of things, it is not difficult to understand the appetite of his family.

   After Mrs. Kerry and Xia Jingxing complimented each other, they suddenly said, "Daren, we hope to forge closer cooperation with Yuanjing."

  Xia Jingxing looked at the old lady and smiled, "I don't understand what you mean."

   "Then let me be blunt, our family foundation wants to invest in Vision Capital."

   Old Mrs. Kerry looked straight at Xia Jingxing and carefully observed the expression on his face, not letting go of every detail.

   Vision Capital's hedge fund is good, but far less attractive than Vision Capital's equity.

   Mrs. Kerry has already inquired about it. The annual profitability of Vision Capital is very amazing. It is definitely the highest quality asset, and it is very worthy of investment and long-term holding.

   "Mrs. Kerry, are you sure you want to invest in Vision Capital?"

  The old lady nodded silently, and the people around were also silent, wanting to see how Xia Jingxing answered.

   "First of all, I would like to state that Vision Capital will not seek a listing like Blackstone and KKR."

Mrs. Kerry frowned and asked, "Why not go public? As far as I know, Vision Capital has very good profitability. If it securitizes assets, it may be able to create an IPO of hundreds of billions of dollars. "

  Xia Jingxing spread his hands, "As you said, Vision Capital has excellent profitability, why should it be listed?"

   "Listen to earn more!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Other companies go public to raise funds for development. If Vision Capital does the same, I believe there will be objections from the friends present.

  The development of Envision Capital has reached a bottleneck. Since last year, we have been actively reducing the scale of asset management.

  Sometimes it is not a good thing for the asset management scale to be too large. Not to mention the loss of flexibility, it is easy to reduce the rate of return, and the dilution belongs to the rights and interests of the existing LP. "

  Old Mrs. Kerry hit a soft nail in Xia Jingxing's place and said angrily, "Daren, with your ability, are you afraid that too many funds under management will lead to mediocre fund returns?"

"Mrs. Kerry, I'm not a real investment god, I'm just an ordinary investor who advocates value investing. I've been lucky and made a little money in recent years. If you think I can surpass Buffett and Soros now, then It was a big mistake."

"But…"

Seeing that old Mrs. Kerry seemed to be making a fuss, Xia Jingxing's face instantly turned cold and said, "Mrs. Kerry, I declare again that Vision Capital is now serving the upper class of Boston, as well as well-known entrepreneurs such as Gates, not Serving a family.

   I have a lot of respect for Mr. Kerry, he is a great politician and very good at rallying friends.

   And Mrs. Kerry, as his wise helper, you should help him go further.

Don’t mention    listing and expanding the scale of asset management. It is easy to cause resistance from existing LPs. "

  Xia Jingxing glanced around and said, "I talked to a few guests just now. They are not richer than the Kerry family, and they do not support Vision Capital to expand its asset management scale in the short term."

   Following Xia Jingxing's line of sight, Mrs. Kerry looked around and found that many people were focusing on her.

   Seeing this, she knew that most of the shareholding plans had failed, and most of the other families were indeed not as rich as theirs, so she would never agree with her decision.

  Envision Capital maintains the status quo and it is good, everyone can make money.

   Anyone who destroys the group interests of those with vested interests will cause public anger.

  The Kerry family is only a fake blue-blood aristocrat, because her husband Kerry ran for the chief commander and developed well in the political arena, so it was barely accepted by the blue-blood aristocratic family.

   If she caused hostility from other families, it would definitely affect her husband's political future.

  Thinking of this, Mrs. Kerry kept her mouth shut and smiled at Xia Jingxing reluctantly, "Daren, maybe you are right, you really can't be too anxious."

  Xia Jingxing smiled slightly, having dealt with this group of people for so long, he had already figured out the urination nature of this group of people, he had to be tough when it was time to be tough, otherwise he would only be regarded as weak and bullied.

   But he didn't break the face with the Kerry family. After all, the mainstay of the family is just popular, so why not let it go.

   The domestic trick of letting him take a stake in the Xueyu Hydropower Station made the monks who went to the United States jumped in anger.

   The old men around were all dumbfounded. Mrs. Kerry, who had just sworn that she would persuade Xia Jingxing, was cut off in one turn.

   Bullshit is worth peace!

   They almost turned their faces when they saw Xia Jingxing just now.

   At this time, they finally remembered, this guy seems to be a famous thorn in the world, especially aggressive!

   They weighed it in their hearts and decided to give up the unrealistic idea for the time being.

   To tell the truth, Vision Capital is working for them now, if you still think about the salary of others... What is the reason for Vision Capital to work for them again.

   Of course, the so-called salary is still very greedy, and the 40% excess revenue share has almost touched the ceiling of Wall Street.

   After defusing the offensive of Mrs. Kerry and several of her allies lightly, Xia Jingxing apologized and walked away to the others.

   After watching Xia Jingxing leave, Mrs. Kerry finally came to her senses, did she act too weak?

She glanced at some of her companions unwillingly, and found that they were happily talking about the smell of a certain senator. She didn't seem to take Xia Jingxing's rejection to heart at all, so she could not help frowning, she faintly felt herself It seems to be used by a few old guys who pretend to be crazy and sell stupid.

   These old guys pushed her out to be a standout, to test Xia Jingxing's attitude, but they sat behind and watched quietly.

   She made Xia Jingxing unhappy, but the others did not.

   In the future, Vision Capital will issue any new fund, and the Kerry family might fall behind others to subscribe, or even reduce the subscription share.

   Even if she is dissatisfied with this, it is not easy to overturn the table, because it cannot influence other people to make money.

   The current Xia Jingxing is everyone's **** of wealth, the attitude of one or two families cannot affect his development in the United States, unless all the families work together to force the palace against him.

  Thinking of this, Mrs. Kerry, who was still a little unwilling, completely understood the situation, and the idea of ​​taking a stake in Vision Capital instantly faded a lot.

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After the association with the blue blood family ended, Xia Jingxing spent a few days in New York, and held several consecutive video conferences with Liu Hai, Jiang Ping, Zhao Peng, Abel, Li Yaozu, Ye Shuhui and other executives all over the world, and formulated the A series of development plans for 2010.

  It is worth mentioning that Li Yaozu, who has stayed in London for a long time, smelled blood again.

   "In November last year, the Greek Finance Minister announced that the country's fiscal deficit to GDP ratio in 2009 would be 13.7%, instead of the originally predicted 6%. Then the market panicked and the price of Greek government bonds CDS rose sharply..."

   On the huge screen hanging on the wall, Li Yaozu excitedly introduced Xia Jingxing to the tragic economic situation in Greece.

After listening to   , Liu Hai's eyes lit up, "You said that Greece's public debt accounts for 113% of GDP? That is to say, all Greeks can pay off all debts without food or drink for more than a year?"

   "Yes, I heard that the Greek finance minister, who only came to power last year, is now crying to the finance ministers of EU countries with snot and tears, hoping that the wealthy big brothers like France and Germany will help Greece with their poor brothers."

  Li Yaozu said gloatingly: "Affected by this, the price of CDS about Greece's sovereign debt default has skyrocketed recently. I heard that Goldman Sachs has signed CDS contracts with many European banks. Goldman Sachs is going to make a lot of money again!

   Does it feel familiar? Greece is now an enlarged version of Lehman Brothers. "

  Xia Jingxing was silent, he was thinking carefully and recalling the debt crisis in Greece.

  If nothing else, the euro and the European Union will be in bad luck this time, and they will get into the "European Swine Fever" with endless troubles.

  The four countries with the most severe plague also like to mention the title of "European Pig Four Kingdoms".

  Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing felt a little hot in his heart, do you want to follow and kill the pigs?

   Just when Xia Jingxing had the idea of ​​killing pigs, he heard Li Yaozu say: "I think we can't miss this opportunity, the debt crisis in Greece is very serious, borrowing the new to repay the old does not rule out the possibility of debt fraud.

  I have already checked the information. When Greece joined the euro zone, it was undertaken by Goldman Sachs. It is difficult to say that this is not a Trojan horse that was deliberately inserted into the euro.

   The old US has tossed the euro and the EU not once or twice, and Goldman Sachs may have received some secret mission.

   Think of the large CDS contract purchased by Goldman Sachs, and think carefully! "

  Abel clapped his hands and applauded: "The analysis is good, this matter must be instigated by the lords of the government to do this, with the purpose of dismantling the EU in bulk.

   Even if the EU cannot be dismantled, it would be good to weaken them so that they will be obedient. "

   A bunch of conspiracy theorists, with every word you say, have already guessed the truth.

  Xia Jingxing did not interrupt, and quietly became the audience.

   Several people discussed heatedly for a few minutes before finally noticing that the boss hadn't spoken yet, and a group of people hurriedly turned their attention to Xia Jingxing.

   "You have to be clear, this time shorting Europe may be more offending than the last time!"

   Everyone thought carefully and nodded one by one.

  Xia Jingxing continued: "The last time I shorted Europe was that all banks suffered heavy losses, and shorting is a market behavior.

   If we attack the euro this time, we will become accomplices. "

   Hearing this, everyone was instantly sober, not as frenzied as before.

  Xia Jingxing smiled slightly, "Of course, I mean we don't go to be the vanguard for others and become a thug, but we still need to help with a punch.

  America first, this is the greatest political correctness! "

   (end of this chapter)