Hollywood Hunter

Simon rushed to Johnston's manor on the Yarra River outside Melbourne near noon.

The morning call was from Anthony Johnston, but only Raymond Johnston and his wife had dinner together. Simon came here more than once during this time, and Janet’s parents had treated him as a son-in-law, and the two had long since disappeared from the original strangeness.

After lunch, Raymond Johnston took Simon to the study.

The two sat down on the sofa in the study by the window. The maid brought coffee and left. Raymond Johnston said straightforwardly: "Simon, knowing that you are busy, I won't be too long. You are coming in this time. , Can you bring more funds?"

Before Simon came, he roughly guessed the old man’s intentions, and nodded happily, "Yes. However, Lei, because of the events of the last few days, I can't see the situation clearly now, and I can't give any guarantee. So, here It is best to only use excess funds, not to affect the normal operation of the company, let alone raise funds blindly through loans."

When Raymond Johnston heard Simon say this, his expression was a little surprised, but then he smiled: "Of course I understand, Simon, I am surprised that you are so sober."

Simon also smiled and said: "The space for development in the fields of entertainment, technology and fashion is already very broad. I don't intend to spend too much time on the financial market. This time I just feel that the time is right and I want to raise some funds. It doesn't matter how much, so there will be no heavy bets."

Raymond Johnston nodded and asked, "So, how sure are you now?"

Simon thought for a while, and said: "There should be no problem with profit, and the various restrictive measures introduced by the Japanese government after the 87-share disaster ensure that the financial market will not see a sharp rise or fall in the short term. Even if the market turns, we can withdraw in time. Out."

Both the Japanese stock market and the futures market now have strict limits on the ups and downs. It is impossible for Simon to replicate the miracle of the 87-year S&P 500 index futures on the Nikkei 225 index futures. At the same time, these restrictions also mean that if the market trend changes, investors will not suffer too much loss as long as they exit in time.

Raymond Johnston was very satisfied with Simon's unknowingly using the word'we', but he still suppressed some expressions and said: "In fact, it is like this, Simon, not just me, but also some Business partners want to take some money out for you to help with the operation."

It was only during the preparatory stage of "Batman" that Simon had already felt the deep-rooted and powerful influence of the Johnston family in Australia. The social parties held before and after the Johnston's mansion clearly showed a big net in front of Simon.

In order to maintain such a huge network of contacts, in addition to friendship, interest is obviously the most solid bond.

Simon has never thought of breaking up with Janet, and Janet's attitude is obviously even more so. Therefore, Simon is destined to be bound to the Johnston family. He enjoyed the benefits of this network of contacts during the preparation of the production of "Batman", and naturally needs to help maintain it.

However, just as he was about to nod, Simon thought of another thing and asked: "Ray, how much can this money be?"

Raymond Johnston said: "You need your consent to count, but it should be no less than 1.5 billion Australian dollars."

Simon was taken aback.

In Australia, Simon knows that the recent exchange rate of the Australian dollar to the US dollar is about 1:0.7. 1.5 billion Australian dollars, which translates to 1 billion US dollars, is already twice the amount Simon had planned to use.

At the end of the 1980s, there were no hedge funds at the tens of billions level.

After being hit hard by the 87 stock market crash, Soros's Quantum Fund has been less than US$2 billion in size in the last two years. This is already the top giant in the industry, and more hedge funds are only tens of millions of dollars in existence.

If Raymond Johnston only took out three to five billion Australian dollars, Simon could nod his head directly, but suddenly jumped to the 1 billion level, he would not dare to take it rashly.

"Too many, Ray, I am not planning to run a large hedge fund."

Simon's understanding of financial markets is limited to the knowledge accumulated during the operation in 1987 and the future macroeconomic trends in his mind.

For small-scale capital operations, he can invest all his chips in the field of stock index futures financial derivatives that he can understand based on the information he has. When it comes to billions of dollars in capital operations, a single financial product will certainly not be able to carry it, but his understanding of foreign exchange, bonds and other fields is poor, and he has no time to learn these things.

"I probably understand your scruples, Simon," Raymond Johnston said: "However, the commander of an army does not need to have superb riding skills, nor does he need to be a marksman. He has to do it. , Just use your own strategy to command thousands of soldiers who are proficient in these subtle skills to win a war. Now you are facing the same problem, you have a forward-looking and overall view that is difficult for others to achieve. As for those specific and small things, You can find someone else to do it."

When Simon heard Raymond Johnston's words, he immediately understood where Janet's character trait of ‘the superior and laborious’ came from.

With a smile on his mouth, Simon said again: "However, Ray, I can't find anyone who is trustworthy and capable of operating this fund in a short time. James can only help me stare at the existing trading team. He doesn't know more about this than me."

Raymond Johnston said: "As long as you nod, I can recommend someone to you."

In the 1980s, Australia's economy was still very small, but with the background of the Johnston family, finding some reliable financial talents is obviously not a problem.

Simon leaned on the sofa, thinking constantly in his mind.

Accepting this 1 billion US dollars of funding, Simon needs to control the scale of funds reached 1.5 billion US dollars.

The larger the size of the hedge fund, the more difficult it is, relatively speaking, to achieve too high a profit rate. This is the disadvantage of accepting external funds.

However, although the issue of commission was not discussed, it is naturally impossible for Simon to help take care of it for free if such a sum of money is added. Hedge funds charge very high fees. The usual practice is 2% management fee and 20% revenue share. With Simon’s current appeal, he can even further increase the commission rate.

In any case, it is very exciting to think about holding a huge sum of more than one billion US dollars in the financial market.

As for success or failure.

To describe it with an argument in my memory, the Japanese stock market is now a big wind, as long as the direction is right, pigs can fly.

What's more, Simon does not fear failure in his bones.

Simon also doesn't feel that he can't run a hedge fund as a layman. There are many laymen in this circle. In comparison, those who are truly expert are all working for others. As Raymond Johnston just said, professional things are left to professional people, and you only need to control the overall situation.

In terms of timing, the time difference between Melbourne and Tokyo is only one hour. During this time, when filming "Batman" in Australia, Simon can follow the movements of the Japanese stock market at any time.

If the Japanese stock market develops according to Simon's memory, it will not reach its peak and turn downward until the end of the year.

Simon plans to relax for a while after finishing the production of "Batman" and let go of company affairs as much as possible, at least not as busy as it is now. At that time, he can also spare more time to continue to stare at the follow-up operation of the money.

After making up his mind, Simon looked up at Raymond Johnston.

Raymond Johnston didn't interrupt Simon's thinking just now, realizing that he had made a decision, and the old man put down his coffee cup and looked over.

After refreshing his thoughts, Simon said: "Ray, our own funds can be combined and operated. But for outsiders, if they want to join in, my condition is that the profit is within 30%, and I only charge 20%. The revenue share is used as a commission. If the profit exceeds 30%, then the commission ratio will increase to 30% for the portion between 30% and 100%; for the profit exceeding 100%, I require a 50% commission. Unlike other long-term operations Hedge funds, this operation of the Japanese market is a one-off, maybe one year, maybe two years. As soon as this matter is over, I will choose the right time to liquidate all the funds to investors."

The impression that hedge funds give to ordinary people often means huge profits.

But in fact, the goal of most hedge funds is just to outperform the market, and there are very few funds with annual interest rates exceeding 30%.

Raymond Johnston knows this in general, so he was not surprised by Simon's offer, he even took it for granted.

With 1.5 billion Australian dollars of funds, let alone profit exceeding 100%, even if it can double in the next one or two years, everyone will be satisfied.

In fact, the net profit of the entire Johnston Holdings Group last year was less than A$200 million, and the annual profit scale of the companies behind the other investors is probably the same.

With normal investment methods, a return of 20 to 30% a year is already very good.

If it really doubles, it will actually mean that everyone will get their own company's profit for a year. In this case, no one will be unwilling to pay higher commissions.

As for the profit exceeding 100%, Raymond Johnston has no expectations. He also knows the reason that the larger the hedge fund, the harder it is to achieve high profit margins.

There are so many opportunities in the financial market. Small funds of millions and tens of millions of dollars can double in a year by seizing the opportunity. This was probably the case in Simon's 1987 operation. However, large-scale hedge funds of hundreds of millions and billions of dollars must diversify their investment, which will inevitably lead to investment gains and losses, and it is impossible to maintain too high profit margins.

In fact, Raymond Johnston did not arbitrarily accept funds from outsiders without screening.

The estimated amount of money, except for some special partners, the investment threshold for others was set at 100 million Australian dollars. People who can't afford so much money or can't afford to lose will be directly excluded. His son-in-law must not be cheated. of.

Therefore, Simon put forward these conditions, Raymond Johnston immediately nodded and agreed.

As for Simon's words to combine the Johnston family's funds with his own, without discussing commissions, Raymond Johnston did not reject this kind of intention. Both of them have already acquiesced in their family status, so there is no need to be so polite.

However, it would be better if this kid could marry his daughter as soon as possible.

Worry.

When Simon was sent away, Raymond Johnston called his eldest son and asked him to start to help Simon choose some people who could be used. By the way, after the New Year, he said that he was in a bad mood, and the young girl came back from Europe. No.

This is also worrying.

The beginning of the year was the busiest time for the finance department. The company's operations in the past two years have not been smooth. As a financial officer, I said that I didn't want to work and stopped working.

If you can really get a son-in-law from vacation, you will be alone every time.

When my father died, he was still talking about the younger sister. How can I explain to my parents in the future?

I was a little angry thinking about it, and Raymond Johnston simply found contact information and dialed to London. Connected over there, after a few conversations, I couldn't hold back the fire, and strictly ordered the woman over there to return to Melbourne next month, or else she would fly to London to catch people.

Also warned repeatedly, but this time seriously.

Simon returned to the city center of Melbourne, and all major stock and commodity exchanges in Asia ended one day of trading.

Affected by the news that Simon Westero is optimistic about the Japanese stock market, the trading volume of stock index futures contracts on the two major exchanges in Singapore and Osaka has increased significantly after the opening today, and even many types of futures that are not related to Japan have been stimulated.

At the same time, the Japanese stock market is also booming across the board today, and a large number of stocks have reached their daily limit. The Nikkei 225 index rose 613 points throughout the day, totaling 31992 points, an increase of 1.9%. In fact, if it were not for the limit of the Japanese stock market's price limit, the single-day increase of the market index would definitely not stop there.

Nikkei 225 index futures have actually been launched less than three years ago, and their prices are far higher than many other types of futures. They are usually bought and sold by powerful institutional investors. However, due to the high growth of the Japanese stock market, the trading volume of Nikkei 225 index futures has increased rapidly in recent years.

Many analysts originally predicted that the total trading volume of Nikkei 225 Index futures this year will reach 5 million lots, involving more than 100 billion US dollars. However, because of the disturbance caused by the article in the Wall Street Journal, only today, the trading volume of the Nikkei 225 index futures on the two major exchanges in Singapore and Osaka exceeded the 60,000-hand mark.

Some people build positions following the trend, some go short against the trend, and some run away.

Simon, who caused the storm, didn't do anything, he just checked today's settlement report as soon as the market closed.

After the margin crisis of the last Black Monday, major exchanges have adopted a daily debt-free settlement system. Investors no longer need to settle the final profit and loss when buying and selling like stocks.

Now, every day after the end of the transaction, the exchange will calculate the profit and loss data of investor contracts and transfer cash.

Simon's Nikkei 225 index contracts held on the Osaka Stock Exchange have increased to 6,000 contracts. Therefore, he made 3.678 billion yen, or 29.9 million US dollars, in just one day today.

With a principal of 200 million US dollars and a profit of nearly 15% in one day, Simon was not too happy.

The Nikkei 225 index rose 613 points in a single day, which is close to the previous month's increase. If you still calculate according to the limit of 38,000 points in memory, Simon's follow-up funds may not be in place, and the Japanese market has already reached the top.

If this situation continues, it would be too sad.