Hollywood Hunter

Last night's killing party was besieged by the crew, and Simon woke up the next day before noon.

After washing down the stairs, the Kendal Hotel gave an empty feeling. It was already a meal, but there were few people in the restaurant.After more than three months of intense work, the filming was over. Everyone was clearly scheduled to relax, and some people could not wait to return to the United States.

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

After the crew closed yesterday, Simon told Jackson to chat together at noon today, when he would wait here.

For more than three months, Simon found that Jackson was a very handy director assistant. He was smart and hardworking, and he was very humane. Even more rare, although he was 28 years old, he did not lose his enthusiasm for the film and still maintained a very strong curiosity. And curiosity.

If there is no greater expectation of Jackson, Simon will definitely take him back to Hollywood and train him as a contract producer for Daenerys Entertainment.Compared to directors, Simon feels that Jackson seems to be more suitable as a producer.

The two ordered a meal and chatted a few words at random, Simon asked Jackson, "Peter, do you think about what you plan to do in the future?"

Peter Jackson smiled and looked at Simon, which was a bit cunning, and said: "Simon, I haven't even thought about why you hired me."

Simon did not explain the meaning of this doubt to Jackson, but just said: "Many things in this world are unanswered."

"So," Jackson hesitated for a moment, "Maybe, I still hope to stay in New Zealand."

Having said this, Jackson's expression was clearly relieved.He thinks that Simon should want to recruit him to Hollywood today. Such an opportunity is probably the dream of every filmmaker. Although he drank some wine after the killing party last night, he was sober after considering this matter. Sleepless all night.

At this time, he uttered his decision and struggled with the whole night.

Simon was a little surprised by Jackson's initiative to make such a decision, and then he was relieved.

In memory, Peter Jackson also missed many opportunities from Hollywood in order to stay in New Zealand.Simon appreciates people who have perseverance in mind, no matter what the reason for this 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 happens, Jackson will be doomed to miss some opportunities.

Seeing Simon’s silence, Jackson thought the young Hollywood tycoon was a little displeased with his answer and quickly explained: “Simon, I’m very grateful for the opportunity you gave me in the Batman crew, but I don’t think I’m suitable Hollywood, I am a person who does not like bondage, but Hollywood has too many restrictions on filmmakers."

Simon heard some eager explanations from Jackson's tone, understood his thoughts, and no longer'persuaded' the homeopathic, laughing: "Well, since this is the case, I respect your choice. In addition, although the shooting of "Batman" has ended , Daenerys Entertainment’s branch in Australia will continue to operate. In the future, it will probably invest in a number of Australian local movies every year. I have watched your "Cosmic Geek", it is very interesting, so, do you have any ideas now? "

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

Simon knows that this is Jackson's horrific "Crazy Fatty Variety Show", a very puppet movie with a big brain, telling the story of a group of variety show animal stars who have a dark and private side in private .

The two discussed at lunchtime, Simon also helped to add some nasty paragraphs, and finally agreed to invest $1 million in Jackson in the name of New World Pictures Australian Branch.

After lunch, Simon hurried to Johnston Holdings headquarters.

Throughout the lunch process, including the work of the previous months, neither Simon nor Jackson talked about anything related to The Lord of the Rings.Jackson's current strength is still far from the level of control of such a large production series as "Lord of the Rings". Perhaps he had the idea of ​​shooting "The Lord of the Rings" very early, but now Jackson clearly has the self-knowledge. As far as New Zealand is concerned, he may even It is unclear who owns the copyright of the Thor Gold series, and naturally it has not been mentioned rashly.

In the original time and space, Jackson started his directorial career with "Cosmic Geek", and accumulated a full ten years before starting the production of "The Lord of the Rings", and became famous, creating a fantasy epic that is difficult to surpass in the history of film. series.

Now, although Simon has the same expectation for Jackson, he does not intend to raise seedlings.

Coming to the office of Cersei Capital at Johnston Holdings Headquarters, it was already over 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 in volatility.

Simon kissed Janet's face while still holding the microphone and looked at the stock display terminal in the office.As of the close of the afternoon, the Nikkei 225 index has reached 34793 points, which is only 2207 points away from the 37,000 points planned by Simon.

It's only the end of April. Obviously, because of Simon's big butterfly, the Japanese stock market has risen much faster than the original time and space.Simon is also clear that this is not due to Cersei Capital’s more than one billion US dollars of credit, he is more like a catalyst to accelerate the growth of the entire market.

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

Compared with the total amount of trillions of dollars in hedge funds in later generations, before Simon entered the Japanese stock market, the total size of global hedge funds was only $30 billion, and Soros’s quantum fund of less than $2 billion was already the largest. One.

However, a few months later, the total size of public hedge funds is close to 70 billion US dollars.

Simon's "overnight riches" in the US stock index futures market two years ago stimulated too many people. These hedge funds were obviously hurriedly established under his influence, and then followed Simon to flock to Asia like smelling bloody sharks.Coupled with other large-scale mutual funds, pension funds, investment banks, commercial banks and other capital forces have entered the market, it is not difficult to understand the accelerated growth of the Japanese stock market.

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

Because of the large number of speculative blind "leeks" crazy admission, Cersei Capital's income is also getting richer.

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% boundary that Simon had originally set, reaching 42%.Simon initially abandoned the industry practice of charging investors 2% management fees, but set up a ladder share plan.

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

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

Entering the office, Janet pressed Simon on a leather chair, sat down on the man’s lap, picked up the documents he had just brought in and opened the door: “Two analysts from Fund 5 recently did the Michael Milken incident. After a study, they think that because of the Milken investigation, the junk bond market has turned cold. In the second half of the year, there may be a tide of junk bond defaults in the United States. Take a look.

Simon took the file from Janet and looked over the woman's waist with one hand.After several months of accumulation, he has easily understood these analysis reports.

From the scale of capital, it is not difficult to find that the field of hedge funds is still in the early stages of development.In my memory, it was probably after the 1990s, especially when Soros became famous after his attack on the pound, that triggered the explosive growth of the hedge fund industry.Now, Simon feels that many hedge fund managers may not have much experience.

What's more, Simon also has the advantage of being a prophet of the two worlds.

Reading the documents in his hands carefully, Simon also easily retrieved some information about the North American junk bond market in his memory.

Indeed, as the two analysts in the document said, the memory is probably in the second half of this year in October. The junk bond market caused a series of chain reactions due to defaults by some companies, which caused the North American stock market bond market to fall sharply. A'little crash' after the stock market crash in 1987.

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

"Don't you say that we are going to start closing at 37000," Janet said, embracing Simon's neck and saying, "In this way, we will be operating in Japan for a maximum of two or three months. During the market's turnaround, Cersei Capital It just happens to be able to avoid playing in North America and shorting junk bonds."

Although he could not explain the reason, Simon did not hide his judgment from Janet, but said that he believed that the Japanese stock market would rush to 40,000 points at most. He hoped to reserve enough room for Cersei Capital to operate, so he began to withdraw at 37,000 points. Depart completely before 38000.

After 38,000 points, Simon is no longer able to judge the direction of the Japanese stock market. It is indeed a good opportunity to temporarily avoid the wait for the situation to be clear.

Waiting for the Japanese market to truly turn around and then re-enter the market to kill.

However, when he heard that Janet was going to make empty junk bonds, Simon couldn't help but think of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in his memory.He did not want to cause the Japanese stock market to collapse because of Cersei Capital, nor did he want the federal government to think that it had destroyed Wall Street's junk bond market.

Although Soros is an object of admiration for many people, he is a capital wicked person who is deeply hated by governments around the world.

Simon is a serious businessman and did not plan to be a hedge fund for life.If it is hated because of its excessive performance in the financial market, and thus affects the development of other areas of Westeros, it is totally worth the loss.

Weighing it carefully, Simon confirmed that the collapse of junk bonds this time is absolutely impossible to be as grand as 2008.Because the credit default swap financial derivatives that triggered the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis have not yet been born.

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

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

Fundamentally, this is a kind of speculation.

In memory, the total value of the US subordinated debt market around 2008 was only US$7 trillion, but the total size of the CDS market around subordinated debt was as high as US$62 trillion, so only a small portion of subordinated debt defaulted and leveraged Under the influence, the global financial markets almost disappeared.

At present, CDS products have not yet appeared, and Janet just sold junk bonds through traditional methods, which is unlikely to cause too much turmoil.

Confirming his judgment, Simon patted on Janet's waist and said, "You can do it according to the situation, but there is one thing, not too risky."

Janet felt that Simon obviously had nothing to tell himself, but did not ask. She came over and posted a sticker on the man's face, and said in a sincere way: "I know."

Obviously.

It’s one thing to know, but it’s another thing to listen.

Simon is a little helpless and dare not tell Janet the concept of CDS.Once said, with this woman's crazy little temperament, she will definitely get this thing out in advance.In the future, if the big crisis in memory recurs and traces back to the roots, it turns out that the CDS is actually related to Simon Westeros.

The two spent an afternoon at Cersei Capital's headquarters and did not return to the Kendal Hotel. Instead, they rushed to the Johnston House in the evening.

Continued to stay in Melbourne for a few days, after finishing some finishing work of the crew, Simon also arrived at the time to return to North America.Janet will continue to stay in Australia due to the operation of Cersei Capital.

In a mansion in the northern suburbs of Melbourne city.

This is a recently selected property by Simon and Janet. The mansion is two acres in size. It is also located on the beautiful Yarra River, but it is closer to the city center of Melbourne, and it is not too far from the Johnston mansion. Far, only about 5 kilometers.

"Batman" shooting ended, the crew disbanded, Daenerys Entertainment will naturally not cover the entire hotel.

After moving out of the hotel, Simon has lived with Janet in the Johnston family's mansion in recent days.As Simon’s assistant, Jennifer could not leave like everyone else, so he was temporarily arranged to live here.This mansion will be the den when Simon and Janet come to Melbourne.

Fortunately for a few days, neither of them liked to live in the Johnston mansion for a long time.

In the afternoon we will set off for North America.

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

The two women were busy together and noticed that Simon, who was lying on the sofa in the living room while casually looking at the TV, leisurely reading a piece of information on his knees. Janet stuffed a gift box in the luggage box. The eyes turned and turned, suddenly to Jennifer Tao: "Jenny, I suddenly thought of a very interesting Chinese name, which is suitable for you."

Jennifer, who is marking a gift, looked up suspiciously: "What?"

Janet looked at Simon again, and smiled and said a weird name that is very mouthful for Westerners: "What do you think of attacking people?"

Jennifer was confused, and looked at Simon as well.

In private, in order to keep up with the pace of his boyfriend, Janet has never stopped learning Chinese. The original woman in "Dream of Red Mansions" still reads frequently so far, and can even read Chinese and English.Simon naturally knew this, and after hearing it, Janet just turned around and said, "Then what name do you give yourself?"