My Age of Investment

early morning.

Sunlight shines through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on a naked man and woman in the room.

Xia Jingxing opened his eyes, woke up from the bed, glanced at Ivanka, whose face was still full of happiness, and lifted the pale arm that was on his chest.

Ivanka muttered a few words, turned over, and continued to sleep.

After getting dressed and washed, Xia Jingxing went downstairs and took the car out.

After driving for a while, the car stopped in front of a small white building between 69th Street and Park Avenue.

Several security guards in suits and leather shoes came forward to check. After seeing the membership ID in Zhang Chenguang's hand, they made a respectful gesture of invitation.

Xia Jingxing walked through the slightly weathered door and walked into the New York United Club.

Recommended by Blankfein, Mak Jinheng, Soros and other financial tycoons, Xia Jingxing also became a member here some time ago.

The annual fee is not high, just tens of thousands of dollars per year, but you don’t have to be rich to join.

Ivanka's father once wanted to join the club, but was rejected.

Envision Capital has now established a firm foothold on Wall Street. Although a group of old white men may be dissatisfied, they still have to admit that in just a few years, a yellow man has achieved what they can achieve in their lifetime.

Under the guidance of the waiter, Xia Jingxing walked into a spacious and bright room that was luxuriously decorated and full of British atmosphere.

Blankfein and Mai Jinheng were drinking coffee and chatting. When they saw Xia Jingxing walking in, they both stood up.

"Darren, long time no see. Vision Capital was in the limelight last year. When the market was wailing, it bucked the trend and rose. Today's Vision Capital may be among the top ten hedge funds."

Mai Jinheng shook hands with Xia Jingxing with a smile on his face. Looking at the other person's overly youthful face, the old man felt sad in his heart.

He has witnessed with his own eyes how Vision Capital has risen step by step on Wall Street. When he first moved to New York, it was just a small and inconspicuous company.

For the sake of investing in Facebook and helping Xia Jingxing make several large equity pledge loans, Morgan Stanley also maintained a good business relationship with Vision Capital.

Through their hands, a large number of CDS contracts were sold to Vision Capital. Seeing how easy it was to make money, Morgan Stanley also secretly made a rival deal with Vision Capital...

At first, he thought Xia Jingxing was crazy and too eager to make the company bigger. He had a serious gambler's mentality and would make a big mistake in the financial market.

The financial market is not the Internet industry. Those who hold the power are middle-aged and elderly people like them. Young people have neither the ability nor experience to control the huge funds of billions or tens of billions of dollars.

In his opinion, although Xia Jingxing has made wealth through the Internet that is difficult for most people to achieve in their lifetime, and venture capital related to Internet entrepreneurship has also become popular, financial derivatives may not necessarily be successful.

Unexpectedly, this kid is really a genius, or he won the bet and made a lot of money in the subprime derivatives market.

Unfortunately, Morgan Stanley made a wrong judgment and suffered a huge loss.

However, he had a better mentality and did not hate Xia Jingxing because of this. He was thinking about how to quickly regain some blood through Vision Capital.

Xia Jingxing took a closer look at Mai Jinheng. He noticed that his hair was obviously much whiter and his face had become more weathered. This was probably due to the sensational fourth quarter financial report last month.

Since its split from the Bank of America in 1935, Morgan Stanley has suffered a quarterly loss for the first time in 72 years, and it has lost an astronomical figure, close to tens of billions of dollars.

Xia Jingxing guessed that Mr. Mai must have been under a lot of pressure recently, because the CEOs of Citibank and Merrill Lynch, which also suffered serious losses, resigned due to leading their companies into the subprime mortgage crisis.

Although the old man in front of him has not finished class, his position is already in jeopardy.

"John, I have heard about Morgan Stanley's recent series of difficulties, but I believe you can lead the company out of trouble."

Xia Jingxing looked at Mai Jinheng and said with a sincere face: "You are a responsible CEO. You have no choice to leave at this time. You are better off than those who take high severance pay and pensions and travel around the world. Professional managers are much better.

If you need help, you can ask for it at any time, and Vision Capital is willing to help you and Morgan Stanley tide over the difficulties. "

Hearing these words, Mai Jinheng felt warm in his heart. I helped you make so much money in vain.

"Morgan Stanley's situation today is inseparable from my aggressive leverage expansion strategy."

Mai Jinheng said quietly: "I will shoulder my due responsibilities. Maybe one day I will leave Morgan Stanley, but I will not leave with the reputation of a coward and loser."

The old man turned his gaze to Xia Jingxing and said with a smile: "Darren, thank you for your comfort. During this period, all I have heard are accusations and abuses against me, including from my former friends.

Your encouragement makes me seem to have regained some confidence.

Hahaha! But speaking of help, Morgan Stanley's stock price has not been particularly stable recently. If it's convenient for you, you can invest in us to boost market confidence.

The number doesn’t need to be too big, two billion US dollars or one billion US dollars will do. "

Xia Jingxing felt like shit, you are so rude!

Financial stocks were the hardest hit by the plunge. It was too late for him to go short, so how could he go long?

Even as a long-term investment, the investment income of financial stocks is far less than that of the Internet and technology industries.

But I put it on myself, so I have to take it back.

Without hesitating for a moment, Xia Jingxing acted decisively: "No problem, but we need to wait a little longer. Didn't CIC invest in you just last month? Market confidence should have been somewhat restored.

I estimate that the subprime mortgage crisis will intensify in the future, and the market sentiment will become even more pessimistic.

At that time, we will take action to achieve the best effect of boosting market confidence. "

Mai Jinheng was a smart man. He heard Xia Jingxing's unwillingness to invest now and was waiting for the opportunity to buy the bottom.

If you wait until then to take action, the effect will definitely not be as good as taking action now.

However, doing finance is not charity. People are willing to buy at the bottom, which is already a great face. At the same time, it can also bring some substantial help to the recovery of Morgan Stanley's stock price.

"Darren, thank you very much. Even if I leave my job one day, Morgan Stanley will remember your friendship in helping me."

Xia Jingxing smiled and nodded. He didn't value friendship or anything like that. He just considered that the second wave of actions would require Damo's cooperation.

When you make a lot of money, you can just buy a lot of money in the short-term. It doesn't matter if you make a little less. The important thing is to ensure that you make a lot of money in the second wave.

Blankfein had been watching Xia Jingxing and Mai Jinheng exchanging greetings with a smile. After the two of them finished chatting, he held out his hand and said, "Darren, congratulations to you, a young financial tycoon who just graduated from other universities. He had already established his own financial empire when he was still an intern, and it was his second empire after the Internet industry.

Your achievements are so dazzling that you no longer need too much praise from others! "

Blankfein winked at Xia Jingxing, "No wonder all the ladies in the Upper East Side are willing to date you."

Mai Jinheng smiled and nodded, "Yes, I've heard that too, youth is good!"

Xia Jingxing guessed that Ivanka's gang of friends were gossiping, but that didn't stop him. He could just go back and explain to Kristina. After all, the scumbag would be blamed.

"Darren, we at Goldman Sachs are also in trouble! Do you want to consider helping us?"

Xia Jingxing turned his eyes to Blankfein. The radiant look of the Goldman Sachs CEO was in sharp contrast to the depressed look on Mai Jinheng's brow.

In short, you don’t see the other party’s difficulty at all?

Mai Jinheng smiled and said, "Lalder, as the big winners, you should stop mocking us losers.

If even you need help, then Wall Street can just shut down. "

Blankfein smiled lightly: "You can't say that. Except for the profit in the self-operated department, our other businesses have suffered a lot of losses. After the profits and losses are offset, our performance has still declined a lot compared with previous years.

The environment is so bad, no one can be sure what will happen next, so be prepared! "

Blankfan glanced at Xia Jingxing, "Darren, do you think so?"

Xia Jingxing glanced at Mai Jinheng, who was smiling but not smiling, and felt that the two old men seemed to be competing with each other.

After thinking for a while, he quickly understood what the two of them were pinching.