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they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.</p><p><blockquote>保守的赌注、不起眼的办公室、投资公司听起来很普通的名字；它们都是精心设计的，以保护比尔·盖茨和梅林达·弗伦奇·盖茨免受批评，并产生稳定的回报，尽管看起来不起眼。</blockquote></p><p> The couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.</p><p><blockquote>这对夫妇上个月的离婚声明打破了策划的形象。令人不快的细节被泄露，包括一份关于拉森涉嫌骚扰和欺负一些员工的报告。</blockquote></p><p> On Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.</p><p><blockquote>周一，一位发言人表示，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨投资公司（Bill and Melinda Gates Investments）更名为Cascade Asset Management Co。这个绰号与Cascade Investment非常相似，Cascade Investment历来是BMGI管理盖茨夫妇个人财富的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> The rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.</p><p><blockquote>此次品牌重塑是正在展开的故事的最新一步，当盖茨和法国人盖茨最终离婚时，世界上最大的财富之一将会发生什么。20世纪90年代中期，这位微软亿万富翁聘请拉森来监管这笔财富。</blockquote></p><p> The sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.</p><p><blockquote>据财务文件和知情人士透露，据彭博新闻社估计，他管理的庞大投资组合价值约1700亿美元，多年来产生的回报比大盘高出约一个百分点。</blockquote></p><p> The record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.</p><p><blockquote>这一记录说明了超级富豪最上层的优先事项，他们的投资期限跨越几代人，风险较高的赌注往往不会超过良好声誉的价值。拉森的部分工作是帮助比尔·盖茨维护他作为致力于解决世界挑战的不可靠亿万富翁的形象，而不是做出可能引起审查的大胆举动。</blockquote></p><p> “The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.</p><p><blockquote>家族办公室招聘公司Agreus Group的联合创始人塔亚布·穆罕默德(Tayyab Mohamed)表示：“其中一些人愿意为远离新闻而付出的代价很高。”</blockquote></p><p> The divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.</p><p><blockquote>《纽约时报》报道了这起离婚事件以及最近有关卡斯卡德工作场所文化的爆料，引发了人们对拉森和他监管的财富的下一步发展的质疑。Cascade的一位发言人表示，BMGI正在更名，“以满足盖茨家族及其慈善工作不断变化的需求”，并且该集团的投资战略和组织结构不会改变。</blockquote></p><p> French Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.</p><p><blockquote>弗伦奇·盖茨(French Gates)的名字于2014年加入BMGI，在Cascade将价值超过30亿美元的股权转让给她后，她一直成为人们关注的焦点，导致一些业内人士猜测她正在要求对自己的股份拥有更大的控制权。财富。根据彭博亿万富翁指数，他们的总财富超过1400亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p><p><blockquote>61岁的拉森承认，正如《泰晤士报》报道中所指控的那样，他有时会使用严厉的语言，但否认他虐待员工。Cascade的一名代表表示，这些事情已经过审查，没有理由解雇他。盖茨的代表没有回应置评请求。</blockquote></p><p> Mohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德表示，考虑到拉森在盖茨长达数十年的任期以及由此可能产生的忠诚，拉森在指控后继续留任并不奇怪。</blockquote></p><p> “Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德说：“如果拉森没有像他那样的职业影响力，那就是简单的“是的，他应该辞职”，他的公司帮助家族理财室填补领导职位。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.</p><p><blockquote>拉森经常穿着粉色衬衫，回避聚光灯，很少参加家族理财室专业人士的会议。据熟悉Cascade的人士透露，作为一名前债券基金经理，他通过提供稳定的回报并向员工灌输他们的主要关注点是保护捐助者的好名声的观念，赢得了盖茨的忠诚。在谈到公司的内部运作时，这些人士要求匿名。</blockquote></p><p> The manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.</p><p><blockquote>他们都表示，这位经理在投资决策上与盖茨有很大的回旋余地。据一位熟悉该公司的人士透露，在Cascade早期，除了年度面对面聚会外，弗伦奇·盖茨很少参加会议，即使参加，她也往往是被动的参与者。</blockquote></p><p> She was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.</p><p><blockquote>她的发言人考特尼·韦德(Courtney Wade)在一份声明中表示，“鉴于拉森缺乏对BMGI的所有权和控制权”，她并不知道涉及拉森的大部分指控。</blockquote></p><p> It’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.</p><p><blockquote>目前尚不清楚French Gates将她的钱放在哪里，包括从Cascade转移的超过30亿美元，也不清楚她现在是否正在建立自己的家族办公室。她还经营着Pivotal Ventures，这是一家投资和孵化公司，成立于2015年，专注于性别和种族平等，拥有约90名员工。</blockquote></p><p> Conservative Mandate</p><p><blockquote>保守授权</blockquote></p><p></p><p> Being the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.</p><p><blockquote>对于考虑创造性赌注的投资者来说，成为世界上最大家族财富之一的投资主管似乎是一份令人羡慕的工作。几乎不用担心筹款、客户提款或繁琐的监管。但它往往只是简单地保持财富稳定。</blockquote></p><p> Aside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>其中一位知情人士表示，除了转移人们对盖茨夫妇的注意力外，拉森的主要任务是保守投资——努力实现回报最大化，但不要亏损。</blockquote></p><p> That reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.</p><p><blockquote>宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院管理学教授拉斐尔·阿米特表示，这反映了大型家族办公室和基金会的典型投资方式。</blockquote></p><p> “The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.</p><p><blockquote>“首要目标是保本，”他说，并补充说这就是家族办公室投资组合如此多样化的原因，不仅包括公共股票，还包括固定收益、大宗商品和艺术品等资产。</blockquote></p><p> In a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.</p><p><blockquote>在二十年前的《财富》杂志的一篇报道中，拉尔森解释说，他的大部分策略都归结为对抗微软股票的波动。当时，基金会和盖茨夫妇个人资金的投资组合主要由债券组成，部分押注于私募股权、大宗商品、佛罗里达州房地产和英国酒店。</blockquote></p><p> That has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.</p><p><blockquote>这种情况已经改变了。如今，Cascade持有约570亿美元的公共股票，从农业设备制造商Deere公司到轨道运营商加拿大国家铁路公司，再到废物管理公司Republic Services Inc.——这些公司植根于制造、运输和销售商品和清理物品的物理世界。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.</p><p><blockquote>根据土地报告，Cascade还拥有约270,000英亩的土地，足以使其成为美国最大的农田所有者。该公司还参与了货币和大宗商品交易、风险投资以及坦帕市中心房地产综合体的开发。</blockquote></p><p> The foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.</p><p><blockquote>该基金会最近的纳税申报表还显示，8.04亿美元的公司债券和58亿美元的其他投资，如抵押贷款支持证券、银行贷款和主权债务。</blockquote></p><p> Stable Returns</p><p><blockquote>稳定的回报</blockquote></p><p> Cascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.</p><p><blockquote>Cascade没有透露其整体投资业绩，但基金会的财务报告提供了线索。据一位知情人士透露，自2001年以来，该基金会管理的资产平均每年回报率约为8.6%，超过了标普500指数过去二十年7.5%的年均涨幅。另一位人士表示，这一业绩记录广泛代表了Cascade的整体回报。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨出售微软股票的收益定期增加Cascade的资产。伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司（Berkshire Hathaway Inc.）的创始人沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）定期向该基金会捐赠价值数十亿美元的该集团股票。据该基金会称，巴菲特与盖茨和弗伦奇·盖茨一起是盖茨基金会的三名董事会成员之一，但不参与捐赠基金的投资决策。</blockquote></p><p> One remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.</p><p><blockquote>投资组合的一个显着特点是变化很小。基金会信托最近提交的文件披露了在美国交易所交易的头寸，其中列出了15只股票，其中10只股票十年前就在投资组合中。</blockquote></p><p> The holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.</p><p><blockquote>这些资产与盖茨夫妇的慈善事业或优先事项并不一致，其中包括全球健康和最近的气候变化。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨在他最近关于气候变化的书中表示，Cascade在2019年之前一直持有对石油和天然气公司的投资。在加入今年将该公司私有化的财团之前，它长期以来一直是全球最大的私人飞机基地运营商Signature Aviation Plc的最大所有者。它是Republic Services Inc.的最大股东，该公司多年来一直与国际卡车司机工会兄弟会不和，后者的成员是雇员。</blockquote></p><p> Gates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. His response: “My investment group chose to do this.”</p><p><blockquote>盖茨偶尔会明确表示，拉森拥有做出投资决策的广泛自由裁量权。在Reddit上3月份的“问我任何问题”活动中，一名用户询问了他购买农田的情况。他的回应是：“我的投资团队选择了这样做。”</blockquote></p><p> Two decades ago, Larson put it more bluntly.</p><p><blockquote>二十年前，拉尔森说得更直白。</blockquote></p><p> “When people find out that Cascade has made an investment in something, that’s not Bill Gates,” he said in the Fortune interview. “I wish everyone understood that.”</p><p><blockquote>“当人们发现Cascade投资了某件事时，那就不是比尔·盖茨了，”他在接受《财富》采访时表示。“我希望每个人都能理解这一点。”</blockquote></p><p></p>","source":"lsy1612507957220","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Gates Split Casts Harsh Glare on $170 Billion Money Manager<blockquote>盖茨的分拆给1700亿美元的基金经理带来了严厉的目光</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nGates Split Casts Harsh Glare on $170 Billion Money Manager<blockquote>盖茨的分拆给1700亿美元的基金经理带来了严厉的目光</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">Bloomberg</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-06-22 09:29</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>(Bloomberg) -- For almost three decades, Michael Larson has quietly shuffled around one of the world’s biggest fortunes with a chief priority: Keep his fabulously wealthy bosses out of the headlines.</p><p><blockquote>（彭博社）——近三十年来，迈克尔·拉森一直在悄悄地洗牌世界上最大的财富之一，他的首要任务是：让他极其富有的老板远离头条新闻。</blockquote></p><p> The conservative bets, the nondescript office, the investment firm’s generic-sounding name; they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.</p><p><blockquote>保守的赌注、不起眼的办公室、投资公司听起来很普通的名字；它们都是精心设计的，以保护比尔·盖茨和梅林达·弗伦奇·盖茨免受批评，并产生稳定的回报，尽管看起来不起眼。</blockquote></p><p> The couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.</p><p><blockquote>这对夫妇上个月的离婚声明打破了策划的形象。令人不快的细节被泄露，包括一份关于拉森涉嫌骚扰和欺负一些员工的报告。</blockquote></p><p> On Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.</p><p><blockquote>周一，一位发言人表示，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨投资公司（Bill and Melinda Gates Investments）更名为Cascade Asset Management Co。这个绰号与Cascade Investment非常相似，Cascade Investment历来是BMGI管理盖茨夫妇个人财富的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> The rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.</p><p><blockquote>此次品牌重塑是正在展开的故事的最新一步，当盖茨和法国人盖茨最终离婚时，世界上最大的财富之一将会发生什么。20世纪90年代中期，这位微软亿万富翁聘请拉森来监管这笔财富。</blockquote></p><p> The sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.</p><p><blockquote>据财务文件和知情人士透露，据彭博新闻社估计，他管理的庞大投资组合价值约1700亿美元，多年来产生的回报比大盘高出约一个百分点。</blockquote></p><p> The record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.</p><p><blockquote>这一记录说明了超级富豪最上层的优先事项，他们的投资期限跨越几代人，风险较高的赌注往往不会超过良好声誉的价值。拉森的部分工作是帮助比尔·盖茨维护他作为致力于解决世界挑战的不可靠亿万富翁的形象，而不是做出可能引起审查的大胆举动。</blockquote></p><p> “The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.</p><p><blockquote>家族办公室招聘公司Agreus Group的联合创始人塔亚布·穆罕默德(Tayyab Mohamed)表示：“其中一些人愿意为远离新闻而付出的代价很高。”</blockquote></p><p> The divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.</p><p><blockquote>《纽约时报》报道了这起离婚事件以及最近有关卡斯卡德工作场所文化的爆料，引发了人们对拉森和他监管的财富的下一步发展的质疑。Cascade的一位发言人表示，BMGI正在更名，“以满足盖茨家族及其慈善工作不断变化的需求”，并且该集团的投资战略和组织结构不会改变。</blockquote></p><p> French Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.</p><p><blockquote>弗伦奇·盖茨(French Gates)的名字于2014年加入BMGI，在Cascade将价值超过30亿美元的股权转让给她后，她一直成为人们关注的焦点，导致一些业内人士猜测她正在要求对自己的股份拥有更大的控制权。财富。根据彭博亿万富翁指数，他们的总财富超过1400亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p><p><blockquote>61岁的拉森承认，正如《泰晤士报》报道中所指控的那样，他有时会使用严厉的语言，但否认他虐待员工。Cascade的一名代表表示，这些事情已经过审查，没有理由解雇他。盖茨的代表没有回应置评请求。</blockquote></p><p> Mohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德表示，考虑到拉森在盖茨长达数十年的任期以及由此可能产生的忠诚，拉森在指控后继续留任并不奇怪。</blockquote></p><p> “Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德说：“如果拉森没有像他那样的职业影响力，那就是简单的“是的，他应该辞职”，他的公司帮助家族理财室填补领导职位。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.</p><p><blockquote>拉森经常穿着粉色衬衫，回避聚光灯，很少参加家族理财室专业人士的会议。据熟悉Cascade的人士透露，作为一名前债券基金经理，他通过提供稳定的回报并向员工灌输他们的主要关注点是保护捐助者的好名声的观念，赢得了盖茨的忠诚。在谈到公司的内部运作时，这些人士要求匿名。</blockquote></p><p> The manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.</p><p><blockquote>他们都表示，这位经理在投资决策上与盖茨有很大的回旋余地。据一位熟悉该公司的人士透露，在Cascade早期，除了年度面对面聚会外，弗伦奇·盖茨很少参加会议，即使参加，她也往往是被动的参与者。</blockquote></p><p> She was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.</p><p><blockquote>她的发言人考特尼·韦德(Courtney Wade)在一份声明中表示，“鉴于拉森缺乏对BMGI的所有权和控制权”，她并不知道涉及拉森的大部分指控。</blockquote></p><p> It’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.</p><p><blockquote>目前尚不清楚French Gates将她的钱放在哪里，包括从Cascade转移的超过30亿美元，也不清楚她现在是否正在建立自己的家族办公室。她还经营着Pivotal Ventures，这是一家投资和孵化公司，成立于2015年，专注于性别和种族平等，拥有约90名员工。</blockquote></p><p> Conservative Mandate</p><p><blockquote>保守授权</blockquote></p><p></p><p> Being the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.</p><p><blockquote>对于考虑创造性赌注的投资者来说，成为世界上最大家族财富之一的投资主管似乎是一份令人羡慕的工作。几乎不用担心筹款、客户提款或繁琐的监管。但它往往只是简单地保持财富稳定。</blockquote></p><p> Aside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>其中一位知情人士表示，除了转移人们对盖茨夫妇的注意力外，拉森的主要任务是保守投资——努力实现回报最大化，但不要亏损。</blockquote></p><p> That reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.</p><p><blockquote>宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院管理学教授拉斐尔·阿米特表示，这反映了大型家族办公室和基金会的典型投资方式。</blockquote></p><p> “The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.</p><p><blockquote>“首要目标是保本，”他说，并补充说这就是家族办公室投资组合如此多样化的原因，不仅包括公共股票，还包括固定收益、大宗商品和艺术品等资产。</blockquote></p><p> In a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.</p><p><blockquote>在二十年前的《财富》杂志的一篇报道中，拉尔森解释说，他的大部分策略都归结为对抗微软股票的波动。当时，基金会和盖茨夫妇个人资金的投资组合主要由债券组成，部分押注于私募股权、大宗商品、佛罗里达州房地产和英国酒店。</blockquote></p><p> That has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.</p><p><blockquote>这种情况已经改变了。如今，Cascade持有约570亿美元的公共股票，从农业设备制造商Deere公司到轨道运营商加拿大国家铁路公司，再到废物管理公司Republic Services Inc.——这些公司植根于制造、运输和销售商品和清理物品的物理世界。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.</p><p><blockquote>根据土地报告，Cascade还拥有约270,000英亩的土地，足以使其成为美国最大的农田所有者。该公司还参与了货币和大宗商品交易、风险投资以及坦帕市中心房地产综合体的开发。</blockquote></p><p> The foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.</p><p><blockquote>该基金会最近的纳税申报表还显示，8.04亿美元的公司债券和58亿美元的其他投资，如抵押贷款支持证券、银行贷款和主权债务。</blockquote></p><p> Stable Returns</p><p><blockquote>稳定的回报</blockquote></p><p> Cascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.</p><p><blockquote>Cascade没有透露其整体投资业绩，但基金会的财务报告提供了线索。据一位知情人士透露，自2001年以来，该基金会管理的资产平均每年回报率约为8.6%，超过了标普500指数过去二十年7.5%的年均涨幅。另一位人士表示，这一业绩记录广泛代表了Cascade的整体回报。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨出售微软股票的收益定期增加Cascade的资产。伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司（Berkshire Hathaway Inc.）的创始人沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）定期向该基金会捐赠价值数十亿美元的该集团股票。据该基金会称，巴菲特与盖茨和弗伦奇·盖茨一起是盖茨基金会的三名董事会成员之一，但不参与捐赠基金的投资决策。</blockquote></p><p> One remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.</p><p><blockquote>投资组合的一个显着特点是变化很小。基金会信托最近提交的文件披露了在美国交易所交易的头寸，其中列出了15只股票，其中10只股票十年前就在投资组合中。</blockquote></p><p> The holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.</p><p><blockquote>这些资产与盖茨夫妇的慈善事业或优先事项并不一致，其中包括全球健康和最近的气候变化。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨在他最近关于气候变化的书中表示，Cascade在2019年之前一直持有对石油和天然气公司的投资。在加入今年将该公司私有化的财团之前，它长期以来一直是全球最大的私人飞机基地运营商Signature Aviation Plc的最大所有者。它是Republic Services Inc.的最大股东，该公司多年来一直与国际卡车司机工会兄弟会不和，后者的成员是雇员。</blockquote></p><p> Gates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. His response: “My investment group chose to do this.”</p><p><blockquote>盖茨偶尔会明确表示，拉森拥有做出投资决策的广泛自由裁量权。在Reddit上3月份的“问我任何问题”活动中，一名用户询问了他购买农田的情况。他的回应是：“我的投资团队选择了这样做。”</blockquote></p><p> Two decades ago, Larson put it more bluntly.</p><p><blockquote>二十年前，拉尔森说得更直白。</blockquote></p><p> “When people find out that Cascade has made an investment in something, that’s not Bill Gates,” he said in the Fortune interview. “I wish everyone understood that.”</p><p><blockquote>“当人们发现Cascade投资了某件事时，那就不是比尔·盖茨了，”他在接受《财富》采访时表示。“我希望每个人都能理解这一点。”</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gates-divorce-casts-harsh-glare-090002545.html\">Bloomberg</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gates-divorce-casts-harsh-glare-090002545.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174609211","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- For almost three decades, Michael Larson has quietly shuffled around one of the world’s biggest fortunes with a chief priority: Keep his fabulously wealthy bosses out of the headlines.\nThe conservative bets, the nondescript office, the investment firm’s generic-sounding name; they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.\nThe couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.\nOn Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.\nThe rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.\nThe sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.\nThe record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.\n“The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.\nThe divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.\nFrench Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.\nLarson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.\nMohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.\n“Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.\nLarson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.\nThe manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.\nShe was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.\nIt’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.\nConservative Mandate\nBeing the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.\nAside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.\nThat reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.\n“The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.\nIn a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.\nThat has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.\nCascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.\nThe foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.\nStable Returns\nCascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.\nCascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.\nOne remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.\nThe holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.\nCascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.\nGates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. 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they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.</p><p><blockquote>保守的赌注、不起眼的办公室、投资公司听起来很普通的名字；它们都是精心设计的，以保护比尔·盖茨和梅林达·弗伦奇·盖茨免受批评，并产生稳定的回报，尽管看起来不起眼。</blockquote></p><p> The couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.</p><p><blockquote>这对夫妇上个月的离婚声明打破了策划的形象。令人不快的细节被泄露，包括一份关于拉森涉嫌骚扰和欺负一些员工的报告。</blockquote></p><p> On Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.</p><p><blockquote>周一，一位发言人表示，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨投资公司（Bill and Melinda Gates Investments）更名为Cascade Asset Management Co。这个绰号与Cascade Investment非常相似，Cascade Investment历来是BMGI管理盖茨夫妇个人财富的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> The rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.</p><p><blockquote>此次品牌重塑是正在展开的故事的最新一步，当盖茨和法国人盖茨最终离婚时，世界上最大的财富之一将会发生什么。20世纪90年代中期，这位微软亿万富翁聘请拉森来监管这笔财富。</blockquote></p><p> The sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.</p><p><blockquote>据财务文件和知情人士透露，据彭博新闻社估计，他管理的庞大投资组合价值约1700亿美元，多年来产生的回报比大盘高出约一个百分点。</blockquote></p><p> The record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.</p><p><blockquote>这一记录说明了超级富豪最上层的优先事项，他们的投资期限跨越几代人，风险较高的赌注往往不会超过良好声誉的价值。拉森的部分工作是帮助比尔·盖茨维护他作为致力于解决世界挑战的不可靠亿万富翁的形象，而不是做出可能引起审查的大胆举动。</blockquote></p><p> “The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.</p><p><blockquote>家族办公室招聘公司Agreus Group的联合创始人塔亚布·穆罕默德(Tayyab Mohamed)表示：“其中一些人愿意为远离新闻而付出的代价很高。”</blockquote></p><p> The divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.</p><p><blockquote>《纽约时报》报道了这起离婚事件以及最近有关卡斯卡德工作场所文化的爆料，引发了人们对拉森和他监管的财富的下一步发展的质疑。Cascade的一位发言人表示，BMGI正在更名，“以满足盖茨家族及其慈善工作不断变化的需求”，并且该集团的投资战略和组织结构不会改变。</blockquote></p><p> French Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.</p><p><blockquote>弗伦奇·盖茨(French Gates)的名字于2014年加入BMGI，在Cascade将价值超过30亿美元的股权转让给她后，她一直成为人们关注的焦点，导致一些业内人士猜测她正在要求对自己的股份拥有更大的控制权。财富。根据彭博亿万富翁指数，他们的总财富超过1400亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p><p><blockquote>61岁的拉森承认，正如《泰晤士报》报道中所指控的那样，他有时会使用严厉的语言，但否认他虐待员工。Cascade的一名代表表示，这些事情已经过审查，没有理由解雇他。盖茨的代表没有回应置评请求。</blockquote></p><p> Mohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德表示，考虑到拉森在盖茨长达数十年的任期以及由此可能产生的忠诚，拉森在指控后继续留任并不奇怪。</blockquote></p><p> “Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德说：“如果拉森没有像他那样的职业影响力，那就是简单的“是的，他应该辞职”，他的公司帮助家族理财室填补领导职位。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.</p><p><blockquote>拉森经常穿着粉色衬衫，回避聚光灯，很少参加家族理财室专业人士的会议。据熟悉Cascade的人士透露，作为一名前债券基金经理，他通过提供稳定的回报并向员工灌输他们的主要关注点是保护捐助者的好名声的观念，赢得了盖茨的忠诚。在谈到公司的内部运作时，这些人士要求匿名。</blockquote></p><p> The manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.</p><p><blockquote>他们都表示，这位经理在投资决策上与盖茨有很大的回旋余地。据一位熟悉该公司的人士透露，在Cascade早期，除了年度面对面聚会外，弗伦奇·盖茨很少参加会议，即使参加，她也往往是被动的参与者。</blockquote></p><p> She was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.</p><p><blockquote>她的发言人考特尼·韦德(Courtney Wade)在一份声明中表示，“鉴于拉森缺乏对BMGI的所有权和控制权”，她并不知道涉及拉森的大部分指控。</blockquote></p><p> It’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.</p><p><blockquote>目前尚不清楚French Gates将她的钱放在哪里，包括从Cascade转移的超过30亿美元，也不清楚她现在是否正在建立自己的家族办公室。她还经营着Pivotal Ventures，这是一家投资和孵化公司，成立于2015年，专注于性别和种族平等，拥有约90名员工。</blockquote></p><p> Conservative Mandate</p><p><blockquote>保守授权</blockquote></p><p></p><p> Being the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.</p><p><blockquote>对于考虑创造性赌注的投资者来说，成为世界上最大家族财富之一的投资主管似乎是一份令人羡慕的工作。几乎不用担心筹款、客户提款或繁琐的监管。但它往往只是简单地保持财富稳定。</blockquote></p><p> Aside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>其中一位知情人士表示，除了转移人们对盖茨夫妇的注意力外，拉森的主要任务是保守投资——努力实现回报最大化，但不要亏损。</blockquote></p><p> That reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.</p><p><blockquote>宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院管理学教授拉斐尔·阿米特表示，这反映了大型家族办公室和基金会的典型投资方式。</blockquote></p><p> “The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.</p><p><blockquote>“首要目标是保本，”他说，并补充说这就是家族办公室投资组合如此多样化的原因，不仅包括公共股票，还包括固定收益、大宗商品和艺术品等资产。</blockquote></p><p> In a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.</p><p><blockquote>在二十年前的《财富》杂志的一篇报道中，拉尔森解释说，他的大部分策略都归结为对抗微软股票的波动。当时，基金会和盖茨夫妇个人资金的投资组合主要由债券组成，部分押注于私募股权、大宗商品、佛罗里达州房地产和英国酒店。</blockquote></p><p> That has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.</p><p><blockquote>这种情况已经改变了。如今，Cascade持有约570亿美元的公共股票，从农业设备制造商Deere公司到轨道运营商加拿大国家铁路公司，再到废物管理公司Republic Services Inc.——这些公司植根于制造、运输和销售商品和清理物品的物理世界。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.</p><p><blockquote>根据土地报告，Cascade还拥有约270,000英亩的土地，足以使其成为美国最大的农田所有者。该公司还参与了货币和大宗商品交易、风险投资以及坦帕市中心房地产综合体的开发。</blockquote></p><p> The foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.</p><p><blockquote>该基金会最近的纳税申报表还显示，8.04亿美元的公司债券和58亿美元的其他投资，如抵押贷款支持证券、银行贷款和主权债务。</blockquote></p><p> Stable Returns</p><p><blockquote>稳定的回报</blockquote></p><p> Cascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.</p><p><blockquote>Cascade没有透露其整体投资业绩，但基金会的财务报告提供了线索。据一位知情人士透露，自2001年以来，该基金会管理的资产平均每年回报率约为8.6%，超过了标普500指数过去二十年7.5%的年均涨幅。另一位人士表示，这一业绩记录广泛代表了Cascade的整体回报。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨出售微软股票的收益定期增加Cascade的资产。伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司（Berkshire Hathaway Inc.）的创始人沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）定期向该基金会捐赠价值数十亿美元的该集团股票。据该基金会称，巴菲特与盖茨和弗伦奇·盖茨一起是盖茨基金会的三名董事会成员之一，但不参与捐赠基金的投资决策。</blockquote></p><p> One remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.</p><p><blockquote>投资组合的一个显着特点是变化很小。基金会信托最近提交的文件披露了在美国交易所交易的头寸，其中列出了15只股票，其中10只股票十年前就在投资组合中。</blockquote></p><p> The holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.</p><p><blockquote>这些资产与盖茨夫妇的慈善事业或优先事项并不一致，其中包括全球健康和最近的气候变化。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨在他最近关于气候变化的书中表示，Cascade在2019年之前一直持有对石油和天然气公司的投资。在加入今年将该公司私有化的财团之前，它长期以来一直是全球最大的私人飞机基地运营商Signature Aviation Plc的最大所有者。它是Republic Services Inc.的最大股东，该公司多年来一直与国际卡车司机工会兄弟会不和，后者的成员是雇员。</blockquote></p><p> Gates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. His response: “My investment group chose to do this.”</p><p><blockquote>盖茨偶尔会明确表示，拉森拥有做出投资决策的广泛自由裁量权。在Reddit上3月份的“问我任何问题”活动中，一名用户询问了他购买农田的情况。他的回应是：“我的投资团队选择了这样做。”</blockquote></p><p> Two decades ago, Larson put it more bluntly.</p><p><blockquote>二十年前，拉尔森说得更直白。</blockquote></p><p> “When people find out that Cascade has made an investment in something, that’s not Bill Gates,” he said in the Fortune interview. “I wish everyone understood that.”</p><p><blockquote>“当人们发现Cascade投资了某件事时，那就不是比尔·盖茨了，”他在接受《财富》采访时表示。“我希望每个人都能理解这一点。”</blockquote></p><p></p>","source":"lsy1612507957220","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Gates Split Casts Harsh Glare on $170 Billion Money Manager<blockquote>盖茨的分拆给1700亿美元的基金经理带来了严厉的目光</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nGates Split Casts Harsh Glare on $170 Billion Money Manager<blockquote>盖茨的分拆给1700亿美元的基金经理带来了严厉的目光</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">Bloomberg</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-06-22 09:29</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>(Bloomberg) -- For almost three decades, Michael Larson has quietly shuffled around one of the world’s biggest fortunes with a chief priority: Keep his fabulously wealthy bosses out of the headlines.</p><p><blockquote>（彭博社）——近三十年来，迈克尔·拉森一直在悄悄地洗牌世界上最大的财富之一，他的首要任务是：让他极其富有的老板远离头条新闻。</blockquote></p><p> The conservative bets, the nondescript office, the investment firm’s generic-sounding name; they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.</p><p><blockquote>保守的赌注、不起眼的办公室、投资公司听起来很普通的名字；它们都是精心设计的，以保护比尔·盖茨和梅林达·弗伦奇·盖茨免受批评，并产生稳定的回报，尽管看起来不起眼。</blockquote></p><p> The couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.</p><p><blockquote>这对夫妇上个月的离婚声明打破了策划的形象。令人不快的细节被泄露，包括一份关于拉森涉嫌骚扰和欺负一些员工的报告。</blockquote></p><p> On Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.</p><p><blockquote>周一，一位发言人表示，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨投资公司（Bill and Melinda Gates Investments）更名为Cascade Asset Management Co。这个绰号与Cascade Investment非常相似，Cascade Investment历来是BMGI管理盖茨夫妇个人财富的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> The rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.</p><p><blockquote>此次品牌重塑是正在展开的故事的最新一步，当盖茨和法国人盖茨最终离婚时，世界上最大的财富之一将会发生什么。20世纪90年代中期，这位微软亿万富翁聘请拉森来监管这笔财富。</blockquote></p><p> The sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.</p><p><blockquote>据财务文件和知情人士透露，据彭博新闻社估计，他管理的庞大投资组合价值约1700亿美元，多年来产生的回报比大盘高出约一个百分点。</blockquote></p><p> The record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.</p><p><blockquote>这一记录说明了超级富豪最上层的优先事项，他们的投资期限跨越几代人，风险较高的赌注往往不会超过良好声誉的价值。拉森的部分工作是帮助比尔·盖茨维护他作为致力于解决世界挑战的不可靠亿万富翁的形象，而不是做出可能引起审查的大胆举动。</blockquote></p><p> “The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.</p><p><blockquote>家族办公室招聘公司Agreus Group的联合创始人塔亚布·穆罕默德(Tayyab Mohamed)表示：“其中一些人愿意为远离新闻而付出的代价很高。”</blockquote></p><p> The divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.</p><p><blockquote>《纽约时报》报道了这起离婚事件以及最近有关卡斯卡德工作场所文化的爆料，引发了人们对拉森和他监管的财富的下一步发展的质疑。Cascade的一位发言人表示，BMGI正在更名，“以满足盖茨家族及其慈善工作不断变化的需求”，并且该集团的投资战略和组织结构不会改变。</blockquote></p><p> French Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.</p><p><blockquote>弗伦奇·盖茨(French Gates)的名字于2014年加入BMGI，在Cascade将价值超过30亿美元的股权转让给她后，她一直成为人们关注的焦点，导致一些业内人士猜测她正在要求对自己的股份拥有更大的控制权。财富。根据彭博亿万富翁指数，他们的总财富超过1400亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.</p><p><blockquote>61岁的拉森承认，正如《泰晤士报》报道中所指控的那样，他有时会使用严厉的语言，但否认他虐待员工。Cascade的一名代表表示，这些事情已经过审查，没有理由解雇他。盖茨的代表没有回应置评请求。</blockquote></p><p> Mohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德表示，考虑到拉森在盖茨长达数十年的任期以及由此可能产生的忠诚，拉森在指控后继续留任并不奇怪。</blockquote></p><p> “Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.</p><p><blockquote>穆罕默德说：“如果拉森没有像他那样的职业影响力，那就是简单的“是的，他应该辞职”，他的公司帮助家族理财室填补领导职位。</blockquote></p><p> Larson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.</p><p><blockquote>拉森经常穿着粉色衬衫，回避聚光灯，很少参加家族理财室专业人士的会议。据熟悉Cascade的人士透露，作为一名前债券基金经理，他通过提供稳定的回报并向员工灌输他们的主要关注点是保护捐助者的好名声的观念，赢得了盖茨的忠诚。在谈到公司的内部运作时，这些人士要求匿名。</blockquote></p><p> The manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.</p><p><blockquote>他们都表示，这位经理在投资决策上与盖茨有很大的回旋余地。据一位熟悉该公司的人士透露，在Cascade早期，除了年度面对面聚会外，弗伦奇·盖茨很少参加会议，即使参加，她也往往是被动的参与者。</blockquote></p><p> She was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.</p><p><blockquote>她的发言人考特尼·韦德(Courtney Wade)在一份声明中表示，“鉴于拉森缺乏对BMGI的所有权和控制权”，她并不知道涉及拉森的大部分指控。</blockquote></p><p> It’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.</p><p><blockquote>目前尚不清楚French Gates将她的钱放在哪里，包括从Cascade转移的超过30亿美元，也不清楚她现在是否正在建立自己的家族办公室。她还经营着Pivotal Ventures，这是一家投资和孵化公司，成立于2015年，专注于性别和种族平等，拥有约90名员工。</blockquote></p><p> Conservative Mandate</p><p><blockquote>保守授权</blockquote></p><p></p><p> Being the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.</p><p><blockquote>对于考虑创造性赌注的投资者来说，成为世界上最大家族财富之一的投资主管似乎是一份令人羡慕的工作。几乎不用担心筹款、客户提款或繁琐的监管。但它往往只是简单地保持财富稳定。</blockquote></p><p> Aside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>其中一位知情人士表示，除了转移人们对盖茨夫妇的注意力外，拉森的主要任务是保守投资——努力实现回报最大化，但不要亏损。</blockquote></p><p> That reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.</p><p><blockquote>宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院管理学教授拉斐尔·阿米特表示，这反映了大型家族办公室和基金会的典型投资方式。</blockquote></p><p> “The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.</p><p><blockquote>“首要目标是保本，”他说，并补充说这就是家族办公室投资组合如此多样化的原因，不仅包括公共股票，还包括固定收益、大宗商品和艺术品等资产。</blockquote></p><p> In a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.</p><p><blockquote>在二十年前的《财富》杂志的一篇报道中，拉尔森解释说，他的大部分策略都归结为对抗微软股票的波动。当时，基金会和盖茨夫妇个人资金的投资组合主要由债券组成，部分押注于私募股权、大宗商品、佛罗里达州房地产和英国酒店。</blockquote></p><p> That has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.</p><p><blockquote>这种情况已经改变了。如今，Cascade持有约570亿美元的公共股票，从农业设备制造商Deere公司到轨道运营商加拿大国家铁路公司，再到废物管理公司Republic Services Inc.——这些公司植根于制造、运输和销售商品和清理物品的物理世界。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.</p><p><blockquote>根据土地报告，Cascade还拥有约270,000英亩的土地，足以使其成为美国最大的农田所有者。该公司还参与了货币和大宗商品交易、风险投资以及坦帕市中心房地产综合体的开发。</blockquote></p><p> The foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.</p><p><blockquote>该基金会最近的纳税申报表还显示，8.04亿美元的公司债券和58亿美元的其他投资，如抵押贷款支持证券、银行贷款和主权债务。</blockquote></p><p> Stable Returns</p><p><blockquote>稳定的回报</blockquote></p><p> Cascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.</p><p><blockquote>Cascade没有透露其整体投资业绩，但基金会的财务报告提供了线索。据一位知情人士透露，自2001年以来，该基金会管理的资产平均每年回报率约为8.6%，超过了标普500指数过去二十年7.5%的年均涨幅。另一位人士表示，这一业绩记录广泛代表了Cascade的整体回报。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨出售微软股票的收益定期增加Cascade的资产。伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司（Berkshire Hathaway Inc.）的创始人沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）定期向该基金会捐赠价值数十亿美元的该集团股票。据该基金会称，巴菲特与盖茨和弗伦奇·盖茨一起是盖茨基金会的三名董事会成员之一，但不参与捐赠基金的投资决策。</blockquote></p><p> One remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.</p><p><blockquote>投资组合的一个显着特点是变化很小。基金会信托最近提交的文件披露了在美国交易所交易的头寸，其中列出了15只股票，其中10只股票十年前就在投资组合中。</blockquote></p><p> The holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.</p><p><blockquote>这些资产与盖茨夫妇的慈善事业或优先事项并不一致，其中包括全球健康和最近的气候变化。</blockquote></p><p> Cascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.</p><p><blockquote>盖茨在他最近关于气候变化的书中表示，Cascade在2019年之前一直持有对石油和天然气公司的投资。在加入今年将该公司私有化的财团之前，它长期以来一直是全球最大的私人飞机基地运营商Signature Aviation Plc的最大所有者。它是Republic Services Inc.的最大股东，该公司多年来一直与国际卡车司机工会兄弟会不和，后者的成员是雇员。</blockquote></p><p> Gates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. His response: “My investment group chose to do this.”</p><p><blockquote>盖茨偶尔会明确表示，拉森拥有做出投资决策的广泛自由裁量权。在Reddit上3月份的“问我任何问题”活动中，一名用户询问了他购买农田的情况。他的回应是：“我的投资团队选择了这样做。”</blockquote></p><p> Two decades ago, Larson put it more bluntly.</p><p><blockquote>二十年前，拉尔森说得更直白。</blockquote></p><p> “When people find out that Cascade has made an investment in something, that’s not Bill Gates,” he said in the Fortune interview. “I wish everyone understood that.”</p><p><blockquote>“当人们发现Cascade投资了某件事时，那就不是比尔·盖茨了，”他在接受《财富》采访时表示。“我希望每个人都能理解这一点。”</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gates-divorce-casts-harsh-glare-090002545.html\">Bloomberg</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gates-divorce-casts-harsh-glare-090002545.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174609211","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- For almost three decades, Michael Larson has quietly shuffled around one of the world’s biggest fortunes with a chief priority: Keep his fabulously wealthy bosses out of the headlines.\nThe conservative bets, the nondescript office, the investment firm’s generic-sounding name; they were all carefully designed to shield Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates from criticism and produce steady, if seemingly unimpressive, returns.\nThe couple’s divorce announcement last month cracked the curated image. Unflattering details spilled out, including a report that Larson had allegedly harassed and bullied some employees.\nOn Monday, a spokesman said that Bill and Melinda Gates Investments -- the 100-person strong team led by Larson that’s overseen their personal fortune and the endowment of their namesake foundation -- changed its name to Cascade Asset Management Co. The moniker closely resembles Cascade Investment, which historically has been the part of BMGI that manages the Gateses’ personal wealth.\nThe rebranding is the latest step in the unfolding story of what will happen to one of the world’s largest fortunes when Gates and French Gates finalize their divorce. Larson was hired by the Microsoft Corp. billionaire in the mid-1990s to oversee that wealth.\nThe sprawling portfolio under his purview, estimated by Bloomberg News to be valued at about $170 billion, has over the years generated returns that beat the broader stock market by about a percentage point, according to financial filings and people familiar with the matter.\nThe record illustrates the priorities of the uppermost strata of the ultrarich, where investment horizons span generations and riskier bets often don’t outweigh the value of a good reputation. Part of Larson’s job was to help Bill Gates uphold his image as a wonky billionaire devoted to fixing the world’s challenges, rather than make bold moves that could draw scrutiny.\n“The price some of these guys are willing to pay to stay out of the news is high,” said Tayyab Mohamed, co-founder of family office recruiting firm Agreus Group.\nThe divorce and recent revelations about Cascade’s workplace culture, reported by the New York Times, raise questions about what’s next for Larson and the fortune he oversees. A spokesman for Cascade said BMGI is changing its name “to allow for the evolving needs of the Gates family and their philanthropic work” and that the group’s investment strategy and organizational structure won’t change.\nFrench Gates, whose name was added to BMGI in 2014, has been in focus after Cascade transferred equity stakes worth more than $3 billion to her, leading some in the industry to speculate she’s in the process of claiming an even larger control of her share of the riches. Their combined wealth stands at more than $140 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.\nLarson, 61, has admitted that he sometimes used harsh language, as alleged in the Times reporting, but denied that he mistreated staff. A Cascade representative has said the matters were examined and didn’t warrant his dismissal. A representative for Gates didn’t respond to a request for comment.\nMohamed said it’s of little surprise that Larson has remained in his role after the allegations, given his decades-long tenure with Gates and the loyalty it has likely engendered.\n“Had Larson not had the professional impact he had, it would be a simple yes, he should resign,” said Mohamed, whose company helps family offices fill leadership positions.\nLarson, often clad in a pink shirt, shies from the limelight and rarely attends conferences for family office professionals. A former bond-fund manager, he won Gates’s loyalty by delivering consistent returns and instilling in employees the notion that their primary focus was to protect their benefactor’s good name, according to people familiar with Cascade, who asked not to be named speaking about the company’s inner workings.\nThe manager had broad leeway from Gates on investment decisions, they both have said. French Gates rarely attended meetings in Cascade’s early days aside from the annual in-person gathering, and when she did she tended to be a passive participant, according to one of the people familiar with the firm.\nShe was unaware of most of the allegations involving Larson “given her lack of ownership of and control over BMGI,” her spokeswoman, Courtney Wade, said in a statement.\nIt’s unclear where French Gates is keeping her money, including the more than $3 billion that has been transferred from Cascade, and whether she’s now setting up a family office of her own. She also runs Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation firm founded in 2015 that focuses on gender and racial equality and employs roughly 90 people.\nConservative Mandate\nBeing the investment chief for one of the world’s biggest family fortunes might seem like an enviable job for an investor mulling creative bets. There’s hardly a worry about fundraising, client withdrawals or onerous regulations. But it often instead involves simply keeping wealth steady.\nAside from detracting attention from the Gateses, Larson’s main mandate has been to invest conservatively -- try to maximize returns but don’t lose money, one of the people said.\nThat reflects the typical investment approaches of big family offices and foundations, said Raphael Amit, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.\n“The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,” he said, adding that’s why family office portfolios are so diverse, including not just public equities, but also fixed income, commodities and assets such as art.\nIn a Fortune story from two decades ago, Larson explained that much of his strategy boiled down to countering the swings of Microsoft stock. At the time, the portfolios both for the foundation and for the Gateses’ personal money mostly consisted of bonds, with some bets on private equity, commodities, Florida real estate and British hotels.\nThat has shifted. Today Cascade holds about $57 billion in public equities, ranging from farm-equipment maker Deere & Co. to track operator Canadian National Railway Co. to waste management firm Republic Services Inc. -- companies rooted in the physical world of making, moving and selling goods, and cleaning things up.\nCascade also owns around 270,000 acres of land, enough to make it the single biggest owner of U.S. farmland, according to the Land Report. The firm also has been involved in currency and commodities trading, venture capital and the development of a property complex in downtown Tampa.\nThe foundation’s most recent tax returns also shows $804 million of corporate bonds and $5.8 billion of other investments like mortgage-backed securities, bank loans and sovereign debt.\nStable Returns\nCascade doesn’t disclose its overall investment performance, but financial reports from the foundation offer clues. The foundation’s assets under management have returned an average of about 8.6% per year since 2001, according to a person familiar with the matter, beating the S&P 500 Index’s average annual 7.5% gain over the past two decades. That track record is broadly representative of Cascade’s overall returns, another person said.\nCascade’s assets have periodically been boosted by proceeds from the sales of Gates’s Microsoft stock. And Warren Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has periodically given shares in the conglomerate worth billions of dollars to the foundation. Buffett is one of the Gates Foundation’s three board members alongside Gates and French Gates, but has no involvement in investment decisions of the endowment, according to the foundation.\nOne remarkable feature of the portfolio is how little it changes. Of the 15 stocks listed in the foundation trust’s most recent filing, which discloses positions traded on U.S. exchanges, 10 of them were in the portfolio a decade ago.\nThe holdings haven’t uniformly jived with the Gateses’ charitable endeavors or priorities, which include global health and, more recently, climate change.\nCascade held investments in oil and gas companies until 2019, Gates said in his recent book about climate change. It was long the biggest owner of Signature Aviation Plc, the world’s largest operator of private-jet bases, before joining a consortium that took the company private this year. And it’s the biggest shareholder of Republic Services Inc., which for years has feuded with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, whose members are employees.\nGates has occasionally made it clear that Larson has broad discretion to make investment decisions. In a March “Ask me anything” event on Reddit, a user asked about his purchases of farmland. His response: “My investment group chose to do this.”\nTwo decades ago, Larson put it more bluntly.\n“When people find out that Cascade has made an investment in something, that’s not Bill Gates,” he said in the Fortune interview. “I wish everyone understood that.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"MSFT":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1400,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":120903570,"gmtCreate":1624290582090,"gmtModify":1634008278954,"author":{"id":"4087376225409810","authorId":"4087376225409810","name":"Orchidfarmer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5ab8a403e25e58d79a494806793b1813","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087376225409810","authorIdStr":"4087376225409810"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great","listText":"Great","text":"Great","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/120903570","repostId":"2145342033","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1718,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":120016808,"gmtCreate":1624287905104,"gmtModify":1634008327746,"author":{"id":"4087376225409810","authorId":"4087376225409810","name":"Orchidfarmer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5ab8a403e25e58d79a494806793b1813","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087376225409810","authorIdStr":"4087376225409810"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good","listText":"Good","text":"Good","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/120016808","repostId":"2145853038","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1687,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":120019171,"gmtCreate":1624287785793,"gmtModify":1634008330138,"author":{"id":"4087376225409810","authorId":"4087376225409810","name":"Orchidfarmer","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5ab8a403e25e58d79a494806793b1813","crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4087376225409810","authorIdStr":"4087376225409810"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/120019171","repostId":"1100861051","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1100861051","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1624280482,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1100861051?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-21 21:01","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Tesla’s Profitability and the Surprising Thing That Could Threaten It<blockquote>特斯拉的盈利能力以及可能威胁它的令人惊讶的事情</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1100861051","media":"The Street","summary":"Rising competition in the electric vehicle space could not only put a crimp in Tesla’s growth rate, ","content":"<p> Rising competition in the electric vehicle space could not only put a crimp in Tesla’s growth rate, but diminish a big source of income as well. The explosion in electric vehicle (EV) demand has served to vindicate the vision of Tesla’s (<b>TSLA</b>) -Get Report celebrity CEO Elon Musk. Indeed, the surge in demand for EVs has not only vindicated his foresight, but allowed his company to remain a market leader above late-coming competitors.</p><p><blockquote>电动汽车领域日益激烈的竞争不仅会抑制特斯拉的增长率，还会减少一大收入来源。电动汽车(EV)需求的爆炸式增长证明了特斯拉的愿景（<b>特斯拉</b>）-获取名人首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的报告。事实上，电动汽车需求的激增不仅证明了他的远见，也让他的公司保持了超越后来者竞争对手的市场领导者地位。</blockquote></p><p> However, while the company Musk leads as Technoking is no doubt a market leader, it has not solely cashed in by beating its competitors in terms of sales. Instead, a key to the company's recent turn to profitability has come from taking advantage of government incentives and selling the excess incentives it holds to these very same competitors. And now that many of these competitors are engaging more aggressively in EVs themselves, Tesla may soon find itself without many of these customers and, therefore, without a significant contributor to its profits.</p><p><blockquote>然而，尽管马斯克领导的Technoking公司无疑是市场领导者，但它并不仅仅通过在销售额上击败竞争对手来获利。相反，该公司最近扭亏为盈的关键来自于利用政府激励措施，并将其持有的多余激励措施出售给这些竞争对手。现在，许多竞争对手都在更积极地涉足电动汽车领域，特斯拉可能很快就会发现自己没有了许多这样的客户，因此也没有对其利润做出重大贡献。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Raking in the Regulatory Credits</b></p><p><blockquote><b>赚取监管信用</b></blockquote></p><p> The credits that Tesla has handsomely profited from are tradable credits offered by various governments around the world for zero-emission vehicles. The fact that they are tradable is crucial since this allows Tesla to sell the credits to other automakers who might not otherwise comply with emission standards without the use of these credits. The set-up allows Tesla to book the credits as purely additive to its top line, with the automakers buying these credits avoiding hefty fines from regulators.</p><p><blockquote>特斯拉从中获得丰厚利润的积分是世界各国政府为零排放汽车提供的可交易积分。它们可交易的事实至关重要，因为这使得特斯拉可以将信用额出售给其他汽车制造商，如果不使用这些信用额，这些汽车制造商可能无法遵守排放标准。这种设置允许特斯拉将积分纯粹作为其营收的附加物，汽车制造商购买这些积分可以避免监管机构的巨额罚款。</blockquote></p><p> Per Tesla’s most recent 10-K filing, the company earned $1.58 billion from the sale of these credits in 2020, up from $594 million in the year prior and $419 million in 2018. The year-over -year jump notwithstanding, the credit sales might appear to be a paltry sum given the company’s $31.5 billion in total revenue in 2020. However, their nature as purely profit, in contrast to capital intensive auto manufacturing, means they have been a pivotal part of Tesla’s push towards profitability.</p><p><blockquote>根据特斯拉最近提交的10-K文件，该公司在2020年通过出售这些积分赚取了15.8亿美元，高于上一年的5.94亿美元和2018年的4.19亿美元。尽管同比增长，但考虑到该公司2020年315亿美元的总收入，信贷销售额似乎微不足道。然而，与资本密集型汽车制造业相比，它们纯粹是利润的性质意味着它们一直是特斯拉推动盈利的关键部分。</blockquote></p><p> Indeed, Tesla’s much-lauded $721 million profit in 2020, the very first profitable full year in its history, was clearly boosted over the top by the surge in regulatory credit sales. Had they remained consistent with the prior periods, the landmark year would have been left short of break-even, keeping up the company's trend of annual losses maintained since its inception.</p><p><blockquote>事实上，特斯拉2020年备受赞誉的7.21亿美元利润，这是其历史上第一个全年盈利的一年，显然是受到监管信贷销售激增的提振。如果它们与前几个时期保持一致，这一具有里程碑意义的一年将无法实现收支平衡，从而保持该公司自成立以来一直保持的年度亏损趋势。</blockquote></p><p> The trend has continued into 2021 as the company reported $518 million in revenues from credit salesin the first quarter, which boosted the company once again to a $438-million quarterly profit. While vehicle deliveries consistently catch the headlines, it's clear that the regulatory credits are buoying the automaker into the black.</p><p><blockquote>这一趋势一直持续到2021年，该公司报告第一季度信贷销售收入为5.18亿美元，这再次使该公司季度利润达到4.38亿美元。虽然汽车交付量不断成为头条新闻，但很明显，监管信贷正在帮助这家汽车制造商实现盈利。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Competition Cuts Into Cash Flow</b></p><p><blockquote><b>竞争削减现金流</b></blockquote></p><p> The problem with the profit margin may be approaching faster than some have anticipated as well, with the increased entry of traditional automakers like Ford (<b>F</b>) -Get Report, General Motors (<b>GM</b>) -Get Report, and Stellantis STLA into the EV space.</p><p><blockquote>随着福特等传统汽车制造商的加入，利润率问题的解决速度可能也比一些人预期的要快（<b>F</b>)-获取报告，通用汽车(<b>GM</b>)-获取报告，Stellantis STLA进入电动汽车领域。</blockquote></p><p> While much of the focus revolves around these companies’ threat to Tesla’s core auto sales, the popularity of Tesla among its devoted fans might sustain it amidst the hard-charging competition. As such, the trajectory of its sales, while now threatened by competent competition, remains somewhat murky at the moment.</p><p><blockquote>虽然大部分焦点都围绕着这些公司对特斯拉核心汽车销售的威胁，但特斯拉在其忠实粉丝中的受欢迎程度可能会在激烈的竞争中维持其地位。因此，其销售轨迹虽然现在受到激烈竞争的威胁，但目前仍然有些模糊。</blockquote></p><p> The question of regulatory credit impact is much more straightforward. If Tesla’s competitors are producing their own electric vehicles and fewer ICE autos, they have no need to spend so substantially on buying credits from Tesla.</p><p><blockquote>监管信用影响的问题要简单得多。如果特斯拉的竞争对手生产自己的电动汽车并减少内燃机汽车，他们就没有必要花这么多钱从特斯拉购买积分。</blockquote></p><p> Per a Reuters report, Fiat Chrysler agreed to purchase $2.4 billion worth of emissions credits from Tesla from 2019 through 2021, likely accounting for a lion’s share of the roughly $2.2 billion recorded in total in credits sold in Tesla’s 2019 and 2020 10-K filings. However, after Fiat Chrysler merged with French automaker PSA Group in May to form Stellantis, this reliable revenue stream looks likely to fade.</p><p><blockquote>据路透社报道，菲亚特克莱斯勒同意在2019年至2021年期间从特斯拉购买价值24亿美元的排放信用额，这可能占特斯拉2019年和2020年10-K文件中出售的信用额总额约22亿美元的大部分。然而，在菲亚特克莱斯勒5月份与法国汽车制造商PSA集团合并成立Stellantis后，这一可靠的收入来源似乎可能会消失。</blockquote></p><p> \"With the electrical technology that PSA brought to Stellantis, we will autonomously meet carbon dioxide emission regulations as early as this year,\" Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told French media after the merger. \"Thus, we will not need to call on European CO2 credits and [Fiat Chrysler] will no longer have to pool with Tesla or anyone.\"</p><p><blockquote>Stellantis首席执行官卡洛斯·塔瓦雷斯(Carlos Tavares)在合并后对法国媒体表示：“凭借PSA为Stellantis带来的电气技术，我们最早将在今年自主满足二氧化碳排放法规。”“因此，我们将不需要对欧洲二氧化碳信用额进行看涨期权，[菲亚特克莱斯勒]也将不再需要与特斯拉或任何人合作。”</blockquote></p><p> <b>Already Anticipated?</b></p><p><blockquote><b>已经预料到了？</b></blockquote></p><p> To be sure, the looming threat of regulatory credit sales eroding is by no means a novel development. CFO Zachary Kirkhorn noted in a call with analysts in mid-2020 that “we don’t manage the business with the assumption that regulatory credits will contribute significantly to the future. Eventually this will reduce.”</p><p><blockquote>可以肯定的是，监管信用销售侵蚀的迫在眉睫的威胁绝不是一个新的发展。首席财务官Zachary Kirkhorn在2020年年中与分析师举行的看涨期权中指出，“我们在管理业务时不会假设监管信贷将对未来做出重大贡献。最终这种情况会减少。”</blockquote></p><p> Kirkhorn’s focus on the core business, especially in terms of battery technology, rather than the regulatory credit sales, is bolstered by the thoughts of prominent Tesla bulls.</p><p><blockquote>柯克霍恩专注于核心业务，特别是在电池技术方面，而不是监管信贷销售，这得到了著名特斯拉多头思想的支持。</blockquote></p><p></p><p> “We have owned Tesla for a decade and from day one we expected regulatory credits to go to zero within three years,” Jennison Associates analyst Owuraka Koney said. “They are comfortable without these regulatory credits and they make money when you exclude these credits and these non-recurring costs that they face.”</p><p><blockquote>Jennison Associates分析师Owuraka Koney表示：“我们拥有特斯拉已经十年了，从第一天起，我们就预计监管信用将在三年内降至零。”“他们在没有这些监管信贷的情况下也很舒服，当你排除这些信贷和他们面临的这些非经常性成本时，他们就能赚钱。”</blockquote></p><p> Koney cited Elon Musk’smassive compensation packagetied to the company's recent stock surges as a key non-recurring cost in this context. Further, Koney argued that the regulatory credit benefits are being unfairly compared to overall profitability, which he sees as an apples-and-oranges comparison. He explained that the more relevant comparison is to Tesla’s operating income, which was $1.99 billion on a GAAP basis in 2020, up over $2 billion from the figure in 2019. The leap suggests strength greater than that simply achieved via the regulatory credit benefit, in his view.</p><p><blockquote>科尼指出，埃隆·马斯克与公司近期股价飙升相关的巨额薪酬方案是这种情况下的一项关键非经常性成本。此外，科尼认为，监管信贷收益与整体盈利能力相比是不公平的，他认为这是苹果和橘子的比较。他解释说，更相关的比较是特斯拉的营业收入，2020年按GAAP计算为19.9亿美元，比2019年的数字增长了20多亿美元。在他看来，这一飞跃表明了比仅仅通过监管信贷利益实现的实力更强的实力。</blockquote></p><p> Mike Dovororany, VP of Automotive & Mobility at market research firm Escalent, seconded the rosier view held by Koney, reiterating that the risk of regulatory credits fading is well understood by savvy investors, and further that the current U.S. administration might actually aid Tesla’s ability to capitalize on regulation.</p><p><blockquote>市场研究公司Escalent汽车与移动副总裁Mike Dovororany支持Koney持有的乐观观点，重申精明的投资者非常了解监管信用减弱的风险，并进一步表示，现任美国政府实际上可能会帮助特斯拉利用监管的能力。</blockquote></p><p> “Because credit sales have always been the main driver behind Tesla’s profitability, investors should be well-accustomed to this risk,” he explained. “Also, as the Biden Administration looks to reconsider stricter emissions regulations, the EV credit market could become more important than ever.”</p><p><blockquote>“由于信贷销售一直是特斯拉盈利的主要驱动力，投资者应该已经习惯了这种风险，”他解释道。“此外，随着拜登政府寻求重新考虑更严格的排放法规，电动汽车信贷市场可能会变得比以往任何时候都更加重要。”</blockquote></p><p> With the administration now proposing a $174-billion investment in the electric vehicle market aspart of the American Jobs Act, including new tax credits, there is certainly ample reason to be excited. Given Tesla's ability to capitalize on these incentives, it will be worth watching what the final bill entails when it crosses Biden's desk and whether it might mean lead to more big profits for Tesla.</p><p><blockquote>作为《美国就业法案》的一部分，政府现在提议对电动汽车市场投资1740亿美元，包括新的税收抵免，当然有足够的理由感到兴奋。鉴于特斯拉有能力利用这些激励措施，值得关注的是最终法案提交拜登办公桌时会带来什么，以及它是否可能意味着为特斯拉带来更多巨额利润。</blockquote></p><p></p>","source":"lsy1610613172068","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Tesla’s Profitability and the Surprising Thing That Could Threaten It<blockquote>特斯拉的盈利能力以及可能威胁它的令人惊讶的事情</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTesla’s Profitability and the Surprising Thing That Could Threaten It<blockquote>特斯拉的盈利能力以及可能威胁它的令人惊讶的事情</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">The Street</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-06-21 21:01</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p> Rising competition in the electric vehicle space could not only put a crimp in Tesla’s growth rate, but diminish a big source of income as well. The explosion in electric vehicle (EV) demand has served to vindicate the vision of Tesla’s (<b>TSLA</b>) -Get Report celebrity CEO Elon Musk. Indeed, the surge in demand for EVs has not only vindicated his foresight, but allowed his company to remain a market leader above late-coming competitors.</p><p><blockquote>电动汽车领域日益激烈的竞争不仅会抑制特斯拉的增长率，还会减少一大收入来源。电动汽车(EV)需求的爆炸式增长证明了特斯拉的愿景（<b>特斯拉</b>）-获取名人首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的报告。事实上，电动汽车需求的激增不仅证明了他的远见，也让他的公司保持了超越后来者竞争对手的市场领导者地位。</blockquote></p><p> However, while the company Musk leads as Technoking is no doubt a market leader, it has not solely cashed in by beating its competitors in terms of sales. Instead, a key to the company's recent turn to profitability has come from taking advantage of government incentives and selling the excess incentives it holds to these very same competitors. And now that many of these competitors are engaging more aggressively in EVs themselves, Tesla may soon find itself without many of these customers and, therefore, without a significant contributor to its profits.</p><p><blockquote>然而，尽管马斯克领导的Technoking公司无疑是市场领导者，但它并不仅仅通过在销售额上击败竞争对手来获利。相反，该公司最近扭亏为盈的关键来自于利用政府激励措施，并将其持有的多余激励措施出售给这些竞争对手。现在，许多竞争对手都在更积极地涉足电动汽车领域，特斯拉可能很快就会发现自己没有了许多这样的客户，因此也没有对其利润做出重大贡献。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Raking in the Regulatory Credits</b></p><p><blockquote><b>赚取监管信用</b></blockquote></p><p> The credits that Tesla has handsomely profited from are tradable credits offered by various governments around the world for zero-emission vehicles. The fact that they are tradable is crucial since this allows Tesla to sell the credits to other automakers who might not otherwise comply with emission standards without the use of these credits. The set-up allows Tesla to book the credits as purely additive to its top line, with the automakers buying these credits avoiding hefty fines from regulators.</p><p><blockquote>特斯拉从中获得丰厚利润的积分是世界各国政府为零排放汽车提供的可交易积分。它们可交易的事实至关重要，因为这使得特斯拉可以将信用额出售给其他汽车制造商，如果不使用这些信用额，这些汽车制造商可能无法遵守排放标准。这种设置允许特斯拉将积分纯粹作为其营收的附加物，汽车制造商购买这些积分可以避免监管机构的巨额罚款。</blockquote></p><p> Per Tesla’s most recent 10-K filing, the company earned $1.58 billion from the sale of these credits in 2020, up from $594 million in the year prior and $419 million in 2018. The year-over -year jump notwithstanding, the credit sales might appear to be a paltry sum given the company’s $31.5 billion in total revenue in 2020. However, their nature as purely profit, in contrast to capital intensive auto manufacturing, means they have been a pivotal part of Tesla’s push towards profitability.</p><p><blockquote>根据特斯拉最近提交的10-K文件，该公司在2020年通过出售这些积分赚取了15.8亿美元，高于上一年的5.94亿美元和2018年的4.19亿美元。尽管同比增长，但考虑到该公司2020年315亿美元的总收入，信贷销售额似乎微不足道。然而，与资本密集型汽车制造业相比，它们纯粹是利润的性质意味着它们一直是特斯拉推动盈利的关键部分。</blockquote></p><p> Indeed, Tesla’s much-lauded $721 million profit in 2020, the very first profitable full year in its history, was clearly boosted over the top by the surge in regulatory credit sales. Had they remained consistent with the prior periods, the landmark year would have been left short of break-even, keeping up the company's trend of annual losses maintained since its inception.</p><p><blockquote>事实上，特斯拉2020年备受赞誉的7.21亿美元利润，这是其历史上第一个全年盈利的一年，显然是受到监管信贷销售激增的提振。如果它们与前几个时期保持一致，这一具有里程碑意义的一年将无法实现收支平衡，从而保持该公司自成立以来一直保持的年度亏损趋势。</blockquote></p><p> The trend has continued into 2021 as the company reported $518 million in revenues from credit salesin the first quarter, which boosted the company once again to a $438-million quarterly profit. While vehicle deliveries consistently catch the headlines, it's clear that the regulatory credits are buoying the automaker into the black.</p><p><blockquote>这一趋势一直持续到2021年，该公司报告第一季度信贷销售收入为5.18亿美元，这再次使该公司季度利润达到4.38亿美元。虽然汽车交付量不断成为头条新闻，但很明显，监管信贷正在帮助这家汽车制造商实现盈利。</blockquote></p><p> <b>Competition Cuts Into Cash Flow</b></p><p><blockquote><b>竞争削减现金流</b></blockquote></p><p> The problem with the profit margin may be approaching faster than some have anticipated as well, with the increased entry of traditional automakers like Ford (<b>F</b>) -Get Report, General Motors (<b>GM</b>) -Get Report, and Stellantis STLA into the EV space.</p><p><blockquote>随着福特等传统汽车制造商的加入，利润率问题的解决速度可能也比一些人预期的要快（<b>F</b>)-获取报告，通用汽车(<b>GM</b>)-获取报告，Stellantis STLA进入电动汽车领域。</blockquote></p><p> While much of the focus revolves around these companies’ threat to Tesla’s core auto sales, the popularity of Tesla among its devoted fans might sustain it amidst the hard-charging competition. As such, the trajectory of its sales, while now threatened by competent competition, remains somewhat murky at the moment.</p><p><blockquote>虽然大部分焦点都围绕着这些公司对特斯拉核心汽车销售的威胁，但特斯拉在其忠实粉丝中的受欢迎程度可能会在激烈的竞争中维持其地位。因此，其销售轨迹虽然现在受到激烈竞争的威胁，但目前仍然有些模糊。</blockquote></p><p> The question of regulatory credit impact is much more straightforward. If Tesla’s competitors are producing their own electric vehicles and fewer ICE autos, they have no need to spend so substantially on buying credits from Tesla.</p><p><blockquote>监管信用影响的问题要简单得多。如果特斯拉的竞争对手生产自己的电动汽车并减少内燃机汽车，他们就没有必要花这么多钱从特斯拉购买积分。</blockquote></p><p> Per a Reuters report, Fiat Chrysler agreed to purchase $2.4 billion worth of emissions credits from Tesla from 2019 through 2021, likely accounting for a lion’s share of the roughly $2.2 billion recorded in total in credits sold in Tesla’s 2019 and 2020 10-K filings. However, after Fiat Chrysler merged with French automaker PSA Group in May to form Stellantis, this reliable revenue stream looks likely to fade.</p><p><blockquote>据路透社报道，菲亚特克莱斯勒同意在2019年至2021年期间从特斯拉购买价值24亿美元的排放信用额，这可能占特斯拉2019年和2020年10-K文件中出售的信用额总额约22亿美元的大部分。然而，在菲亚特克莱斯勒5月份与法国汽车制造商PSA集团合并成立Stellantis后，这一可靠的收入来源似乎可能会消失。</blockquote></p><p> \"With the electrical technology that PSA brought to Stellantis, we will autonomously meet carbon dioxide emission regulations as early as this year,\" Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told French media after the merger. \"Thus, we will not need to call on European CO2 credits and [Fiat Chrysler] will no longer have to pool with Tesla or anyone.\"</p><p><blockquote>Stellantis首席执行官卡洛斯·塔瓦雷斯(Carlos Tavares)在合并后对法国媒体表示：“凭借PSA为Stellantis带来的电气技术，我们最早将在今年自主满足二氧化碳排放法规。”“因此，我们将不需要对欧洲二氧化碳信用额进行看涨期权，[菲亚特克莱斯勒]也将不再需要与特斯拉或任何人合作。”</blockquote></p><p> <b>Already Anticipated?</b></p><p><blockquote><b>已经预料到了？</b></blockquote></p><p> To be sure, the looming threat of regulatory credit sales eroding is by no means a novel development. CFO Zachary Kirkhorn noted in a call with analysts in mid-2020 that “we don’t manage the business with the assumption that regulatory credits will contribute significantly to the future. Eventually this will reduce.”</p><p><blockquote>可以肯定的是，监管信用销售侵蚀的迫在眉睫的威胁绝不是一个新的发展。首席财务官Zachary Kirkhorn在2020年年中与分析师举行的看涨期权中指出，“我们在管理业务时不会假设监管信贷将对未来做出重大贡献。最终这种情况会减少。”</blockquote></p><p> Kirkhorn’s focus on the core business, especially in terms of battery technology, rather than the regulatory credit sales, is bolstered by the thoughts of prominent Tesla bulls.</p><p><blockquote>柯克霍恩专注于核心业务，特别是在电池技术方面，而不是监管信贷销售，这得到了著名特斯拉多头思想的支持。</blockquote></p><p></p><p> “We have owned Tesla for a decade and from day one we expected regulatory credits to go to zero within three years,” Jennison Associates analyst Owuraka Koney said. “They are comfortable without these regulatory credits and they make money when you exclude these credits and these non-recurring costs that they face.”</p><p><blockquote>Jennison Associates分析师Owuraka Koney表示：“我们拥有特斯拉已经十年了，从第一天起，我们就预计监管信用将在三年内降至零。”“他们在没有这些监管信贷的情况下也很舒服，当你排除这些信贷和他们面临的这些非经常性成本时，他们就能赚钱。”</blockquote></p><p> Koney cited Elon Musk’smassive compensation packagetied to the company's recent stock surges as a key non-recurring cost in this context. Further, Koney argued that the regulatory credit benefits are being unfairly compared to overall profitability, which he sees as an apples-and-oranges comparison. He explained that the more relevant comparison is to Tesla’s operating income, which was $1.99 billion on a GAAP basis in 2020, up over $2 billion from the figure in 2019. The leap suggests strength greater than that simply achieved via the regulatory credit benefit, in his view.</p><p><blockquote>科尼指出，埃隆·马斯克与公司近期股价飙升相关的巨额薪酬方案是这种情况下的一项关键非经常性成本。此外，科尼认为，监管信贷收益与整体盈利能力相比是不公平的，他认为这是苹果和橘子的比较。他解释说，更相关的比较是特斯拉的营业收入，2020年按GAAP计算为19.9亿美元，比2019年的数字增长了20多亿美元。在他看来，这一飞跃表明了比仅仅通过监管信贷利益实现的实力更强的实力。</blockquote></p><p> Mike Dovororany, VP of Automotive & Mobility at market research firm Escalent, seconded the rosier view held by Koney, reiterating that the risk of regulatory credits fading is well understood by savvy investors, and further that the current U.S. administration might actually aid Tesla’s ability to capitalize on regulation.</p><p><blockquote>市场研究公司Escalent汽车与移动副总裁Mike Dovororany支持Koney持有的乐观观点，重申精明的投资者非常了解监管信用减弱的风险，并进一步表示，现任美国政府实际上可能会帮助特斯拉利用监管的能力。</blockquote></p><p> “Because credit sales have always been the main driver behind Tesla’s profitability, investors should be well-accustomed to this risk,” he explained. “Also, as the Biden Administration looks to reconsider stricter emissions regulations, the EV credit market could become more important than ever.”</p><p><blockquote>“由于信贷销售一直是特斯拉盈利的主要驱动力，投资者应该已经习惯了这种风险，”他解释道。“此外，随着拜登政府寻求重新考虑更严格的排放法规，电动汽车信贷市场可能会变得比以往任何时候都更加重要。”</blockquote></p><p> With the administration now proposing a $174-billion investment in the electric vehicle market aspart of the American Jobs Act, including new tax credits, there is certainly ample reason to be excited. Given Tesla's ability to capitalize on these incentives, it will be worth watching what the final bill entails when it crosses Biden's desk and whether it might mean lead to more big profits for Tesla.</p><p><blockquote>作为《美国就业法案》的一部分，政府现在提议对电动汽车市场投资1740亿美元，包括新的税收抵免，当然有足够的理由感到兴奋。鉴于特斯拉有能力利用这些激励措施，值得关注的是最终法案提交拜登办公桌时会带来什么，以及它是否可能意味着为特斯拉带来更多巨额利润。</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/surprising-thing-that-could-threaten-teslas-profitability\">The Street</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"特斯拉"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/investing/surprising-thing-that-could-threaten-teslas-profitability","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100861051","content_text":"Rising competition in the electric vehicle space could not only put a crimp in Tesla’s growth rate, but diminish a big source of income as well.\n\nThe explosion in electric vehicle (EV) demand has served to vindicate the vision of Tesla’s (TSLA) -Get Report celebrity CEO Elon Musk. Indeed, the surge in demand for EVs has not only vindicated his foresight, but allowed his company to remain a market leader above late-coming competitors.\nHowever, while the company Musk leads as Technoking is no doubt a market leader, it has not solely cashed in by beating its competitors in terms of sales. Instead, a key to the company's recent turn to profitability has come from taking advantage of government incentives and selling the excess incentives it holds to these very same competitors. And now that many of these competitors are engaging more aggressively in EVs themselves, Tesla may soon find itself without many of these customers and, therefore, without a significant contributor to its profits.\nRaking in the Regulatory Credits\nThe credits that Tesla has handsomely profited from are tradable credits offered by various governments around the world for zero-emission vehicles. The fact that they are tradable is crucial since this allows Tesla to sell the credits to other automakers who might not otherwise comply with emission standards without the use of these credits. The set-up allows Tesla to book the credits as purely additive to its top line, with the automakers buying these credits avoiding hefty fines from regulators.\nPer Tesla’s most recent 10-K filing, the company earned $1.58 billion from the sale of these credits in 2020, up from $594 million in the year prior and $419 million in 2018. The year-over -year jump notwithstanding, the credit sales might appear to be a paltry sum given the company’s $31.5 billion in total revenue in 2020. However, their nature as purely profit, in contrast to capital intensive auto manufacturing, means they have been a pivotal part of Tesla’s push towards profitability.\nIndeed, Tesla’s much-lauded $721 million profit in 2020, the very first profitable full year in its history, was clearly boosted over the top by the surge in regulatory credit sales. Had they remained consistent with the prior periods, the landmark year would have been left short of break-even, keeping up the company's trend of annual losses maintained since its inception.\nThe trend has continued into 2021 as the company reported $518 million in revenues from credit salesin the first quarter, which boosted the company once again to a $438-million quarterly profit. While vehicle deliveries consistently catch the headlines, it's clear that the regulatory credits are buoying the automaker into the black.\nCompetition Cuts Into Cash Flow\nThe problem with the profit margin may be approaching faster than some have anticipated as well, with the increased entry of traditional automakers like Ford (F) -Get Report, General Motors (GM) -Get Report, and Stellantis STLA into the EV space.\nWhile much of the focus revolves around these companies’ threat to Tesla’s core auto sales, the popularity of Tesla among its devoted fans might sustain it amidst the hard-charging competition. As such, the trajectory of its sales, while now threatened by competent competition, remains somewhat murky at the moment.\nThe question of regulatory credit impact is much more straightforward. If Tesla’s competitors are producing their own electric vehicles and fewer ICE autos, they have no need to spend so substantially on buying credits from Tesla.\nPer a Reuters report, Fiat Chrysler agreed to purchase $2.4 billion worth of emissions credits from Tesla from 2019 through 2021, likely accounting for a lion’s share of the roughly $2.2 billion recorded in total in credits sold in Tesla’s 2019 and 2020 10-K filings. However, after Fiat Chrysler merged with French automaker PSA Group in May to form Stellantis, this reliable revenue stream looks likely to fade.\n\"With the electrical technology that PSA brought to Stellantis, we will autonomously meet carbon dioxide emission regulations as early as this year,\" Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told French media after the merger. \"Thus, we will not need to call on European CO2 credits and [Fiat Chrysler] will no longer have to pool with Tesla or anyone.\"\nAlready Anticipated?\nTo be sure, the looming threat of regulatory credit sales eroding is by no means a novel development. CFO Zachary Kirkhorn noted in a call with analysts in mid-2020 that “we don’t manage the business with the assumption that regulatory credits will contribute significantly to the future. Eventually this will reduce.”\nKirkhorn’s focus on the core business, especially in terms of battery technology, rather than the regulatory credit sales, is bolstered by the thoughts of prominent Tesla bulls.\n“We have owned Tesla for a decade and from day one we expected regulatory credits to go to zero within three years,” Jennison Associates analyst Owuraka Koney said. “They are comfortable without these regulatory credits and they make money when you exclude these credits and these non-recurring costs that they face.”\nKoney cited Elon Musk’smassive compensation packagetied to the company's recent stock surges as a key non-recurring cost in this context. Further, Koney argued that the regulatory credit benefits are being unfairly compared to overall profitability, which he sees as an apples-and-oranges comparison. He explained that the more relevant comparison is to Tesla’s operating income, which was $1.99 billion on a GAAP basis in 2020, up over $2 billion from the figure in 2019. The leap suggests strength greater than that simply achieved via the regulatory credit benefit, in his view.\nMike Dovororany, VP of Automotive & Mobility at market research firm Escalent, seconded the rosier view held by Koney, reiterating that the risk of regulatory credits fading is well understood by savvy investors, and further that the current U.S. administration might actually aid Tesla’s ability to capitalize on regulation.\n“Because credit sales have always been the main driver behind Tesla’s profitability, investors should be well-accustomed to this risk,” he explained. “Also, as the Biden Administration looks to reconsider stricter emissions regulations, the EV credit market could become more important than ever.”\nWith the administration now proposing a $174-billion investment in the electric vehicle market aspart of the American Jobs Act, including new tax credits, there is certainly ample reason to be excited. Given Tesla's ability to capitalize on these incentives, it will be worth watching what the final bill entails when it crosses Biden's desk and whether it might mean lead to more big profits for Tesla.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"TSLA":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1434,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
