Hollywood Hunter

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Last night's closing party was besieged by the crew to the point of getting drunk, and Simon didn't wake up until near noon the next day.

After washing up and going downstairs, the Kendall Hotel felt empty. It was already meal time, but there were not many people in the restaurant. After more than three months of intense and busy work, the filming was over, and everyone had clearly arranged a relaxation schedule, and some people could not wait to return to the United States.

Peter Jackson, who had been waiting in the restaurant, saw Simon appear, got up to greet him, and the two sat down together.

Yesterday, after the crew finished work, Simon told Jackson to chat with him at noon today, and he would wait here only at this time.

After getting along for more than three months, Simon found that Jackson was a very handy assistant director, smart, diligent, and personable. What is even more rare is that although he is 28 years old, he has not lost his enthusiasm for movies and still maintains a very strong curiosity. and curiosity.

If it weren't for Jackson's greater expectations, Simon would definitely bring him back to Hollywood and train him as a contract producer for Daenerys Entertainment. Compared with the director, Simon felt that Jackson seemed more suitable for the producer's career.

The two ordered a meal and chatted for a while, and Simon asked Jackson, "Peter, have you thought about what you're going to do in the future?"

Peter Jackson smiled, looked at Simon with a bit of slyness, and said, "Simon, I still haven't figured out why you hired me in the first place."

Simon didn't mean to explain this doubt to Jackson, but said: "There are many things in this world that have no answers."

"Then," Jackson hesitated for a moment, then said, "Perhaps, I still hope to stay in New Zealand."

Having said that, Jackson's expression was visibly relieved. He thinks that Simon should want to recruit him to Hollywood today. Such an opportunity is probably every filmmaker's dream. After last night's finishing party, although he drank some wine, he was sober thinking about it. Sleepless nights.

At this time, he said his decision, and the struggle that had been entangled all night finally dissipated.

Simon was a little surprised that Jackson took the initiative to make such a decision, and was relieved in a blink of an eye.

In memory, Peter Jackson also missed a lot of opportunities from Hollywood in order to stay in New Zealand. Simon appreciates people who have persistence in their hearts, no matter what the reason for that persistence, if Jackson is very eager to go to Hollywood in today's conversation, Simon may actually take him to Los Angeles.

However, if that is the case, some opportunities Jackson is doomed to miss.

Seeing that Simon was a little silent, Jackson thought that the young Hollywood tycoon was a little unhappy with his answer, and quickly explained: "Simon, I am grateful for the opportunity you gave me in the "Batman" crew, but I don't think I am suitable. Hollywood, I'm a guy who doesn't like to be tied down, and Hollywood has too many rules that limit filmmakers."

Simon heard the eager explanation in Jackson's tone, understood his thoughts, and stopped 'persuading', and smiled: "Well, in that case, I respect your choice. In addition, although the filming of "Batman" has ended , Daenerys Entertainment's branch in Australia will continue to operate, and will invest in a number of Australian films every year in the future. I have seen your "The Strangers", which is very interesting, so do you have any thoughts now? "

Peter Jackson noticed that Simon's attitude was not cold because of his rejection. Although he didn't know what he was thinking, he still talked about his idea of ​​a black comedy-style alternative puppet show.

Simon knows that this is Jackson's "Crazy Fat Baby Variety Show", which is full of fun. It is a very brain-opening puppet movie. It tells the story of a group of bright-faced variety show animal stars, but each has a dark and depraved side in private. .

The two had a discussion at lunchtime, Simon also helped to add some nasty jokes, and finally readily agreed to invest $1 million in Jackson in the name of New World Pictures Australia.

After lunch, Simon rushed to the headquarters of Johnston Holdings.

Neither Simon nor Jackson said anything about The Lord of the Rings during the entire lunch, including the previous months at work. Jackson's current strength is far from being able to control such a big production series as "The Lord of the Rings". Maybe he had the idea of ​​shooting "The Lord of the Rings" very early on, but now Jackson obviously has self-knowledge. As far away as New Zealand, he may even be able to do it. No one knows the copyright of the Tol King series, and naturally he didn't mention it rashly.

In the original time and space, Jackson started his directorial career with "The Strangers in the Universe". It took him a full ten years to start the production of "The Lord of the Rings", and he became famous in one fell swoop, creating a fantasy epic that is difficult to overcome in the history of movies. series.

Now, although Simon has the same expectations for Jackson, he has no plans to help the seedlings.

When I came to the office of Cersei Capital, the headquarters of Johnston Holdings, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the exchanges in Singapore and Tokyo had closed.

During this time, the Japanese stock market continued to rise amid volatility.

Simon kissed Janet's cheek, who was still holding the microphone, and looked at the stock display terminal in the office. As of the close in the afternoon, the Nikkei 225 index has reached 34,793 points, leaving only 2,207 points away from the 37,000 points in Simon's plan.

It's only the end of April, and it's obvious that because of Simon, the big butterfly, the Japanese stock market has risen a lot faster than the original time and space. Simon also knows that this is not because of Cersei Capital's billion-dollar capital.

Thanks to his credit, he is more like a catalyst for accelerating the growth of the entire market.

According to the statistics of some investment banks on Wall Street, in recent months, the size of the global hedge fund has more than doubled.

Compared with the total size of the trillion-dollar hedge fund field in later generations, before Simon entered the Japanese stock market, the total size of the global hedge fund was only 30 billion US dollars, and Soros’s quantum fund of less than 2 billion US dollars was already the largest among them. one.

However, just a few months later, the total size of hedge funds alone is approaching $70 billion.

Simon's "get rich overnight" in the U.S. stock index futures market two years ago stimulated too many people. Obviously, these hedge funds were hurriedly established under his influence, and then flocked to Asia with Simon like a bloody shark. In addition, other larger-scale mutual funds, pension funds, investment banks, commercial banks and other capital forces have entered the market one after another, and it is not difficult to understand that the growth rate of the Japanese stock market is accelerating.

According to the current growth rate, it only takes at most two months for the Nikkei 225 index to reach 37,000 points, and it will probably reach more than 38,000 points in July and August.

Because of the crazy entry of a large number of speculative blind "leeks", the income of Cersei Capital has become more and more abundant.

In last week's statistics, Cersei Capital's net asset value has exceeded the $2 billion mark, reaching $2.23 billion. The profit rate also broke through the 30% dividing line originally set by Simon, reaching 42%. Simon directly abandoned the industry practice of charging investors a 2% management fee, and instead set up a ladder sharing plan.

Now, for more than 30%, Simon's commission share has been increased from 20% to 30%.

Janet finished the phone call, hugged Simon again, picked up a stack of documents and dragged him to a small office next door.

Entering the office, Janet pressed Simon on the leather chair, sat down on the man's lap, picked up the document she had just brought in, and opened it: "Two analysts of Fund 5 have recently done something about the Michael Milken incident. Take a look at the research, they think that because of the Milken investigation, the junk bond market turns cold, and there may be a wave of junk bond defaults in the United States in the second half of the year, look at it.”

Simon took the document from Janet and put one arm around the woman's waist while flipping through it. After a few months of accumulation, he has easily understood these analysis reports.

From the scale of capital, it is not difficult to find that the hedge fund field is still in its infancy. In my memory, it was probably after the 1990s, especially when Soros became famous by attacking the pound, which triggered the explosive growth of the hedge fund industry. Now, Simon feels, many hedge fund managers may not be as experienced as their own.

What's more, Simon has the advantage of being a prophet for two generations.

After carefully reading the documents in hand, Simon also easily collected some information about the North American junk bond market in his memory.

Indeed, as said by the two analysts in the document, the memory is probably in October in the second half of this year. The junk bond market caused a series of chain reactions due to the default of some companies, which once triggered both the North American stock market and bond market to plummet. A 'mini crash' after the 1987 stock market crash.

After reading the information in his hand, Simon asked Janet in his arms, "What are you going to do?"

"Didn't you say we're going to start closing at 37,000," Janet put her arms around Simon's neck and said, "In this case, we'll be operating in Japan for two or three months at most. During the process of the market turning around, Cersei Capital will Just to avoid going to North America to play and short junk bonds.”

Although he could not explain the reason, Simon did not hide his judgment from Janet, but only said that he believed that the Japanese stock market would rush to 40,000 points at most. Completely leave the market before 38,000 points.

After 38,000 points, Simon has been unable to judge the trend of the Japanese stock market, and it is indeed a good opportunity to temporarily avoid waiting for the situation to become clear.

When the Japanese market really turned around, it re-entered the market and fell.

However, when he heard that Janet was going to short junk bonds, Simon couldn't help but remember the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in his memory. He doesn't want the Japanese stock market to crash because of Cersei Capital, nor does he want the federal government to think it's bringing down Wall Street's junk bond market.

Although Soros is the object of worship for many people, he is a capital villain who is hated by governments around the world.

Simon is a serious businessman and has no plans to be a hedge fund all his life. It would be a total loss if it was hated for going too far in the financial markets, which in turn affected the development of other areas of the Westeros Company.

On a closer look, Simon confirms that this junk bond meltdown is unlikely to be on the scale of 2008. Because, the credit default swap financial derivatives that triggered the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 have not yet been born.

The so-called credit default swap (cds) is roughly an insurance product, or more accurately, it can be said to be a kind of gambling. Both parties to the contract bet on whether a certain bond will default. If not, the company that sells the financial derivative will continue to receive 'premium'. Once the debt defaults, the contract seller will have to pay expensive 'claims'.

Compared with traditional insurance, the biggest feature of CDS is that the 'insured' party does not need to hold any kind of bond. To use a common analogy, the buyer and seller of the contract are completely standing on the side of the road, betting on a passing car at will. Will the car be in an accident or a house on the side of the road will catch fire and then buy or sell. These cars and houses have little to do with the gambling parties themselves.

Basically, this is a

Speculation.

In my memory, the total value of the U.S. subprime bond market around 2008 was only $7 trillion, but the total size of the cds market around subprime bonds was as high as $62 trillion. Therefore, only a small part of subprime bonds defaulted and leveraged Under the influence, the global financial market was almost wiped out.

Now, CDs products have not yet appeared, Janet is just shorting junk bonds through traditional methods, and it is impossible to cause too much waves.

Confirming his judgment, Simon patted Janet's small waist and said, "You can operate it according to the situation, but one thing, don't take too much risk."

Janet felt that Simon obviously didn't tell her something, but she didn't ask. She came over and put a sticker on the man's face, and said insincerely, "I know."

Obviously.

Knowing is one thing, listening or not is another.

Simon was a little helpless, and he didn't dare to tell Janet the concept of CDs. Once said, with this woman's crazy little temperament, she will definitely get this thing out in advance. If the big crisis in memory happens again in the future, if you go back to the source and find out that CDs is actually related to Simon Westeros, then the joke will be big.

The two stayed at the Cersei Capital headquarters for an afternoon, and did not return to the Kendall Hotel, but rushed to the Johnston family mansion in the evening.

Continuing to stay in Melbourne for a few days and finishing some finishing touches on the set, it was time for Simon to return to North America. Janet will remain in Australia to run Cersei Capital.

Inside a mansion in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

This is a property that Simon and Janet have carefully selected and purchased recently. The mansion covers an area of ​​two acres. It is also located on the Yarra River with excellent scenery, but it is closer to the city center of Melbourne and not far from the Johnston's mansion. far, only about 5 kilometers.

The filming of "Batman" is over and the crew is disbanded, so naturally Daenerys Entertainment will not take over the entire hotel.

Simon has been living with Janet in the Johnston family's mansion in recent days after moving out of the hotel. As Simon's assistant, Jennifer couldn't leave like the others, so she was temporarily arranged to live here. This mansion will also be Simon and Janet's nest when they come to Melbourne.

It's fine for a few days, but neither of them likes living in the Johnston's mansion for a long time.

We will leave for North America in the afternoon.

In the living room of the mansion villa, Janet helped Jennifer to pack the luggage, most of which were actually Simon's, mainly gifts purchased for everyone in Los Angeles. Although not a gift-giving maniac like Michael Ovitz, Simon pays attention to these little details.

The two women were busy together, and noticed Simon, who was sitting on the living room sofa while casually looking at the TV while reading a document on his lap. Janet stuffed a gift box into the suitcase, her eyes rolled and she suddenly turned to Jennifer. Said: "Jenny, I suddenly thought of a very interesting Chinese name that suits you very well."

Jennifer, who was marking a gift, raised her head suspiciously: "What?"

Janet glanced at Simon again, and smiled and said a strange name that was very awkward for Westerners: "Xiren, what do you think?"

Jennifer was confused and looked at Simon as well.

In private, in order to follow her boyfriend's pace, Janet has never stopped learning Chinese. The original "Dream of Red Mansions" is still being read frequently by women, and now she can even read in both Chinese and English. Simon naturally knew this. Hearing that, he just rolled his eyes at Janet and said, "Then what name do you give yourself?"

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