Reborn Capital Empire

Chapter 57: Short Enron

Chapter 57 Short Enron

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Looking at the tall and young man in front of him with bright eyes, with infinite confidence in his eyes, William Zhang’s information automatically appeared in his mind. After a moment of silence, he said solemnly, “Can I know your next plan?”

Guo Shouyun’s eyes narrowed, revealing his investment plan to an outsider who has not yet joined the job is undoubtedly reckless and dangerous. However, after thinking about it, he nodded. At present, William Zhang is the most suitable candidate for his plan. If you miss him and ask the headhunter to find a more suitable person, it will be too late in time.

“Do, be empty, be safe, be safe!”

Facing William Zhang’s deep eyes, Guo Shouyun said word by word.

“Enron, Inc., headquartered in Houston?”

William Zhang was instantly moved.

“That’s right!”

After taking a deep breath and suppressing the shock in his heart, William Zhang said solemnly: “You should know that it is the largest comprehensive natural gas and power company in the world…!”

“I also knew it was just named 7th on the Fortune 500 by Fortune Magazine! It was named ‘America’s 100 Most Innovative Companies’ for the sixth year in a row, with a market cap of over $80 billion! But so what, Just because the company is big doesn’t mean there are no problems!” Guo Shouyun said firmly after interrupting unceremoniously.

The financial scandals of Enron in the United States and Vidione in France were the most sensational news in the world in the first few years of the 21st century. The former went bankrupt, and the latter survived the crisis by selling assets. Now that he knows this, Guo Shouyun must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and make a big short sale!

As for why it is Anye and not Vidiwang, because the latter has what he wants, Guo Shouyun doesn’t want to have hatred with Vidiwang for the time being. Moreover, the collapsed Enron is less risky when shorting.

“Why are you so sure that there is something wrong with Enron. Do you have any inside information…!” The hasty voice suddenly stopped, William Zhang took a deep breath, calmed down his impatience, and shook his head, “I’m sorry, I asked too much!”

As a financial practitioner, he knows exactly what he wants to know about what it means to investors. No one will reveal much without signing an onboarding contract and a nondisclosure agreement. Guo Shouyun was sincere enough to say the goal of ‘Enron Company’.

Guo Shouyun smiled and changed the subject.

“With Mr. Zhang’s experience, contacts and reputation, how many times can he get leverage in the secondary market?”

“ten times!”

After thinking about it, William Zhang said.

Guo Shouyun nodded, “Ten times, it’s enough!”

In fact, even though he knew that Enron was going to go bankrupt, ten times the leverage was too risky for Guo Shouyun, who planned to go short in the long run. Not to mention the margin required to maintain such a high leverage. In case those big investment banks and hedge funds are unwilling to be lonely, Guo Shouyun will face the risk of losing everything. Therefore, he originally intended five times! Now William Zhang fully satisfies this requirement.

“Now I am preparing the first short-selling fund of $400 million, and I will provide you with at least $60 million every month in the future. With five times leverage, this is a huge sum of more than at least $3 billion. For For any fund manager, being able to control such a huge amount of money is an opportunity that cannot be found! If Mr. Zhang is willing to join in. I think when you retire, you will have this achievement, and you will not be in vain. Even If we go further, we might even leave a name in the history!” Guo Shouyun urged.

“Mr. Guo is really good. But high profits in the capital industry usually mean high risks. Are you so sure that Enron’s stock price will collapse?” road.

“Facts will prove everything. If Mr. Zhang doesn’t join Phoenix, none of this means anything to you!”

William Zhang smiled, a thoughtful look on his face.

Seeing him like this, Guo Shouyun didn’t bother much. There was an eerie silence in the reception room. It wasn’t until five or six minutes later that something changed.

“Although I will retire in a few years, I am still a little curious. So, I choose to join!” William Zhang said firmly.

As Guo Shouyun said, as a fund manager, it is really hard for him to resist an opportunity to operate a huge capital of 3 billion US dollars. Moreover, if, as Guo Shouyun said, Enron’s stock price collapsed. He will also get a lot of dividends. Whether it’s fame, interests, or career choice, it’s all in his favor.

“After a year at most, you will find that your choice today is the wisest choice in your life!” Guo Shouyun stood up, and while smiling, he confidently stretched out his right hand towards William Zhang.

“Then I’ll have to wait and see!”

After the two briefly shook hands, Guo Shouyun raised his hand to signal, and Wendy Solo next to him immediately brought over the employment contract and confidentiality agreement. William Zhang took a look, and after there were no traps, he signed his name on the back.

“Now I should call you Boss!”

“Then should I also call you ‘Old Zhang’ in the future?” Guo Shouyun said with a smile.

“Old Zhang? I like this title!”

After a casual chat, “I will let Wendy give you the operating information about Enron Company we have collected tomorrow. In addition to reading the information, you also need to return to New York immediately, and within a week at most, provide the necessary information for the company. Traders, intelligence analysts, security personnel, etc. are recruited in place. On August 1, we officially entered the ‘battlefield’!”

Guo Shouyun’s determined words made William Zhang in his fifties a little excited.

“No problem! It’s all on me!”

Having spent his whole life on Wall Street, he knew it all too well. He knows where the qualified people are.

Afterwards, Guo Shouyun shared with William Zhang, and discussed some of the information he had collected about Enron; for example, the senior executives of Enron secretly sold Enron shares while advocating that the share price of Enron would rise to 130 yuan per share. And Enron’s losses in investing in British Wessex Water, India’s tens of billions of dollars in power investment and other projects.

Although An Ran is now very popular, as long as he wants to investigate, those pervasive investigation companies will provide Guo Shouyun with the information he wants. This information fell into the hands of people with a heart, and it was easy to come to the judgment that Enron was in a bad situation.

The reason why Enron’s problems have not been noticed by the public is not how well Enron’s cover-up is. But thanks to the help of these giants such as Morgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Arthur Andersen, the world’s five largest law firms. Those who hold Enron stock need time to find a taker, pass on the risk, and then backhand short.

It’s a pity that they didn’t do it seamlessly. After Enron’s collapse was exposed, Arthur Andersen collapsed, and WorldCom, which had a close relationship with Enron, collapsed. The incident was so big that it directly provoked the US Department of Justice to issue a sky-high fine of more than 4 billion US dollars. Triggered a series of turmoil in financial and capital markets.

Of course, turbulence often contains huge opportunities, and Enron is one of the most valuable.

After separating from William Zhang, Guo Shouyun took Wendy back to the Plaza Hotel where he was staying.

Close the door, go back to your bedroom and turn on the computer. From the encrypted file, he retrieved the 2,000-year development plan that he had formulated in advance. Behind the detailed clauses, there are four red circles, and the circles are marked with different contents.

The first is ‘pan-entertainment’; the second is the Internet; the third is the financial industry; the last is ‘investment’!

These three industries, plus a series of investment plans, complete the closed loop from capital to industry. Although every industry is very thin now, it will take a huge amount of time, money and energy to further improve it. However, the foundation has been laid since the ten thousand zhang tall buildings are on the ground.

The most important thing is that, based on Guo Shouyun’s previous knowledge in his previous life, these three industries have the greatest opportunities and the least constraints for him at present.

“August is coming soon. After so much preparation has been done in the early stage, it is time to collect the fruits of victory!” A glint of light flashed in Guo Shouyun’s eyes.

Thinking of this, he flipped through the funds on hand. The $350 million in ABS securities, plus more than $60 million in untaxed royalty income currently in the account. Enough is enough to deal with the first investment in shorting Enron~www.readwn.com~ As for the latter, he can get 30 million royalties every month. Using the 50% personal income tax charitable tax deduction policy, the tax payment can be reduced to 20%. In this way, the funds at his disposal are guaranteed at $24 million.

In addition, he also holds the absolute control of the thorn bird, and can temporarily take its income. The two plus one guarantees that the monthly investment of 60 million will not be a problem. As for the margin for securities lending, it can be fully offset by the royalties from the new book he wrote. Guo Shouyun, who holds the classic bestsellers such as “The Da Vinci Code”, “Twilight”, “The Hunger Games”, “Island Bookstore” and so on, which can clearly sell tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of copies, can be described as ‘Have food in hand, don’t panic’.

Moreover, the box office and peripherals of “Smart: Ghost Recording”, and the “Red Alert” game CD that Valve Software is preparing for sale, these are super projects that can bring in tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, with huge profits.

In case, when shorting Enron, it is obstructed by large institutions and cannot wait for the income from royalties, movies and games, mortgage the equity of Thorn Bird to the bank to get tens of millions of dollars in emergency funds. Therefore, the margin he is not worried at all.

Moreover, he was very suspicious of whether there would be a chance to return to the light of An Ran’s broken car after he was short of it? Even if there is an occasional rebound, as long as it does not touch the highest price of Guo Shouyun’s short selling, the margin call mechanism will not be triggered.

As for the investment of Matrix Films to make movies, it is enough to go to the bank to find short-term commercial credit. Anyway, everyone in Hollywood does this, and Guo Shouyun is no exception.

After doing some calculations, thinking about all possible mistakes, and preparing enough means to deal with it, Guo Shouyun closed the computer contentedly and went to sleep.