Before this, Barron sent Ferran O'Neill, a senior manager of DS Investment Company, to New York.
When he first arrived there, Fearon had two tasks, which were to investigate the fund companies on Wall Street and select a suitable company from them for acquisition.
On Wall Street, there are countless fund companies of all sizes, but it does take some effort to screen out the targets that meet their requirements.
However, it seems that Ferran O'Neal acted quickly. After only half a month, Barron got the results of his preliminary screening.
After reading the relevant documents sent by Phelan, Barron could see that Phelan O'Neill still understood his requirements.
Through the information in these documents, Barron selected three fund companies - these fund companies have a capital scale of less than 50 million US dollars, complete qualifications, and the company backgrounds are simple and clean, which will not leave any hidden dangers after the acquisition.
Then, Phelan can make further contacts with these companies and eventually acquire one of them.
Another thing is that Barron gave Pharrell O'Neill a list that included some fund company managers and traders, and Pharrell O'Neill needed to conduct background checks on these people.
In fact, this list includes some of Barron's people who made huge profits by short selling during the subprime mortgage crisis in his previous life. As a financial industry practitioner in his previous life, Barron naturally also did special research on the subprime mortgage crisis.
Among these people, the one that Barron paid the most attention to was naturally John Paulson, who became famous in one battle.
However, Barron could not make the list too obvious. Even if Ferran O'Neill could not see anything now, he would always notice something strange after the subprime mortgage crisis. Therefore, Barron directly mixed these people into a list of more than twenty people.
In fact, in Baron's opinion, Paulson's strength lies in his ability to keenly discover the signs of economic crisis and thus make profits from short selling. In his previous life, after becoming famous in the subprime mortgage crisis, the performance of the funds he managed was mediocre afterwards.
John Paulson has established his own hedge fund, Paulson & Co, ten years ago. He also tried his hand at it during the Internet bubble crisis in 2001. At that time, he shorted a large amount of stocks, which made his fund rise against the trend and attracted many investors.
To date, the total assets managed by Paulson Hedge Fund have exceeded 4 billion US dollars, which is considered a good-sized fund company among the investment funds on Wall Street.
It's just that Paulson is a very low-key person, and now he is not well-known outside the hedge fund industry.
This was all the information about Paulson that Ferran O'Neill submitted to Barron's. However, Baron, who had seen relevant interviews in his previous life, knew that next month Paulson would begin raising funds to build a position for the first fund used to short subprime mortgage-related bond CDOs - initially the fund would be only $150 million in size.
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On June 13, in Frankfurt, the financial center of Germany, the Colo Chinese national football team, which participated in the World Cup finals for the first time, faced the South Korean team.
With O2 Telecom and Argos Retail Group as the team's sponsors, and sponsorship from the West African Group, the Colo Chinese national football team is treated very well in this World Cup, with generous rewards for goals and wins.
You know, Group G, to which Colo belongs, includes Colo, South Korea, Switzerland and France. Among them, the team with the greatest possibility of winning and scoring is South Korea. Therefore, in this game, the boys of the team can be said to have performed very actively, hoping to seize this opportunity to "get rich".
With Kolo's current per capita income, they had received a bonus of 100,000 Kolo shillings per person, equivalent to 10,000 euros, when they qualified from the group stage. If they could really win a game, they could be considered "rich."
After the game started, the players of the Kolo team fully utilized their physical advantage and scored the first goal less than ten minutes into the first half.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that up to now, teams from Africa and Asia have not won a game in the World Cup in Germany. Therefore, as long as the match between Kolo and South Korea does not end in a draw, they will be able to create a record in this World Cup and become the first team from that continent to win...
And based on what South Korea did in the last World Cup, there is no doubt that the Chinese national football team enjoyed home-field treatment at the Frankfurt Stadium. After they scored a goal, they were enthusiastically cheered and celebrated by the European fans on the scene...
However, African teams tend to become lax after taking the lead, and the Chinese national team was no exception. In the second half, less than ten minutes into the game, the South Korean team took advantage of a tactical foul caused by the negligence of the Colo defenders, and through cooperation, they scored a goal and equalized the score.
Finally, when the game was nearing its end and entering injury time, Kolo'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 scored the winning goal in the last minute of injury time.
In their first match in the World Cup, the Kolo team defeated South Korea 2:1 and won a precious victory.
The only pity is that they can't perform as well as the Chinese men's football team in the World Cup as they did in the original time and space... they are on par with them, or even slightly better.
After winning the game, the members of the Kolo national football team received 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 bonus of up to 15 million Kolo shillings, equivalent to 1.5 million euros!
This makes them very excited. It can be said that getting this bonus can change everyone's lives.
However, the South Korean team, which lost the game, was not so happy...
Because of what they did in the last World Cup, they lost the first match of the World Cup to a small African country that they had never even heard of before, and it was a weak team participating in the World Cup for the first time. I am afraid that the European and global media will not be polite to them from now on. Cynical remarks are the least of their words...
But Barron didn't mind it 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 assistant and bodyguard, while Barron will wait until the finals to come back and watch the game.
Because there are still some things in London that need his attention, and Argos Retail Group will soon be listed on the London Stock Exchange.