Rick Rieder's Presentation at Invest For Kids Chicago 2013

Next up in our notes from Invest For Kids Chicago 2013 is Rick Rieder of BlackRock.


Rick Rieder's Presentation at Invest For Kids Chicago

•    21 years at Lehman; Fixed income analyst hall of fame
•    Upside value of FI is muted to say the least
•    Talk on convert – fundamental value of significant proportion
•    Investment regime is changing
•    2003 to 2007 – leverage built up
•    2008 to 2013 – Fed saving system
•    Rebooting system back to “2003 or 2004”
•    Growth in the next few years has exogenous for moderate growth for next 2 to 3 years
 •    Expect moderate growth framework for next few years
•    Low rate framework
•    Buying a lot of agency mortgages
•    Can re-lever US balance sheets
•    Cost of equity versus BBB yields is very wide
•    Investors are forcing CEOs to return capital
•    Dividend to CapEx has also growth so ST growth for equity price but LT underinvestment
•    Need for interest income in market yet not enough assets so investors are forced out the rick curve to equities
•    Converts provide upside convexity, income, and the ability to leverage volatility(options are priced cheap due to volatility being held on the Fed’s balance sheet)
•    Likes DR Horton, MGM, and Ford converts
•    Also works in Europe & Asia 


Check out the rest of the hedge fund presentations from Invest For Kids Chicago here.

Notes From SALT Conference Risk Panel: Falcone, Sprott, Rieder & Ivascyn

At the Skybridge Alternative Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas yesterday, a panel on risk featured Harbinger Capital's Phil Falcone, Sprott Asset Management's Eric Sprott, Blackrock's Rick Rieder, as well as PIMCO's Daniel Ivascyn. The talk was entitled, "Risk On, Risk Off: How to Generate Profits in a Macro Driven World."


Phil Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners essentially referenced his Lightsquared venture when he made comments regarding investors being too fixated on liquidity.  He argues that people are passing on solid long-term opportunities because they want access to their capital.  The Harbinger man believes regulation has hurt the free market.

He also went on to say that because of the market's risk on/risk off mentality, there are many who aren't even paying attention to fundamentals out there.  The manager labeled the market one of the most difficult to time investments.


Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management is yet again pounding the table on gold due to the problems in Europe.  He also commented on the "post-Lehman" world and mentioned that there can't be liquidity events as that could bring down the whole system.


Rick Rieder talked about how investing strategies are shifting from beta to idiosyncratic. He also believes that contagion isn't as big of an issue in Europe.


Daniel Ivascyn stressed the importance of aligning the right vehicle with the investment opportunity.  Long term opportunities need to be placed in the right structure, he says.


For more notes from the SALT Conference, check out:

- Identifying opportunities in emerging markets with John Burbank

-  Notes from panel with Kyle Bass, Dmitry Balyasny & Steven Tananbaum


- Barry Rosenstein, Leon Cooperman & Joel Greenblatt's panel on stocks






The above was compiled from notes sent in along with help from live tweets from: @ldelevingne , @pdmckenna ,  @AttainCapital & @realrobcopeland