America’s Road To Wealth

Chapter 141: Smith Capital Reception

Chapter 141 Smith Capital Reception

New York, Queens.

After a long absence from Smith Building for a month.

Abel again,

Appeared in the most important company under his name now, Smith Capital.

In his absence this month, Smith Capital has not changed much.

The structure of this financial company is too deformed.

There are more than 100 people in the company, all analysts and traders.

There are trading qualifications, but there is no trader with trading authority.

In large and medium-sized financial securities companies, various "vice presidents" are common, that is, sales elites.

That is also not one.

Such a deformed architecture.

When there is no task, the staff of the company, their job is to collect as much information as possible in the market as much as possible.

in other words.

Most of the time, these people are idle.

Fortunately, in the past two months, Abel has made many moves in the capital market.

He has made many big moves in London gold, foreign exchange market and international crude oil.

Especially international crude oil.

There are two fluctuation periods, each of which is more than one month.

During this period, the staff of Smith Capital and David Mellon will not be empty because they have no work.

Same as before,

He left No. 1, 13th Road, Emperor Point, New York before nine o'clock in the morning.

Even last night,

He played with two young supermodels until four o'clock.

At seven o'clock the next day, he also woke up as usual.

And full of energy.

A few hours of sleep had already restored him to full blood and mana.

He was very satisfied with Kurkova and Lima last night.

Compared to the previous Gisele Bundchen and Carmen Kess, he was more satisfied.

The young Lima gave him the idea of "signing a contract".

That pair of beautiful, somewhat rebellious wolf eyes.

Giving him the urge to severely insult and profanity.

Especially when you get it on top.

As for Karolina Kurkova, the big KK is too young.

It is a bit biased towards the traditional European supermodel, with little meat.

It looks good, but it's a pity that it's not the one Abel prefers.

That is to say, it is better to be young, and still a little shy and ignorant.

Also makes him feel good.

Lima and Kokova this time, Kath and Giselle last time.

These are in parallel time and space.

The top supermodels who once shined in the age of the Victoria's Secret Gods and caused countless LSPs around the world to murder countless descendants.

The pleasant experience with them made Abel deeply feel that he created Isha Company.

The way of snatching them from Victoria's Secret is really correct.

Even after this, Isha didn’t make much money.

Or losing money, he thinks it is worth it.

Money can’t buy happiness. For him, money is a number.

Consuming these numbers can keep him in a good mood.

can give him this enjoyment.

Then he thinks all this is worth it!

In addition, he was going to spend a sum of money to renovate No. 1, Huangdian 13th Road.

after this.

This mansion, he will no longer be used to receive other women.

Here will become the back garden of him and Isa's babies.

Only Isa's babies can live here.

That will be his own Elizabeth's back garden filled with a group of supermodels with the best figure and the most beautiful appearance in the world.

is also his own back garden.

This is what Abel thought when he left No. 1 Huangdian 13th Road in the morning.

He quickly took action and took out the money to find a designer to redesign and decorate.

And he himself, before ten o'clock, came to the Smith Building.

There is a parking lot in front of the Smith Building, and the gate is in front of the parking lot.

Outside the gate, there is the East River, overlooking Queens Boulevard in Manhattan.

On the roof of the Smith Building, four helicopter pads are planned.

Abel came from Long Island, and the helicopter landed on it.

He had just arrived at his office in the Smith Building.

Within two minutes,

There was a knock on the door of the office.

"Come in."

Abel's voice just fell.

The door was pushed open, and David Mellon walked in from the outside.

"Oh, I'm finally back." David Mellon shook his head with a smile:

"Want to meet Smith in Smith Capital, I didn't expect it to be so difficult!"

"The angels in the City of Angels are too beautiful, aren't they? Let you linger there and forget to return."

Facing the poor-mouthed David, Abel said directly: "Talk about the business."

"Ha~"

"Okay." David Mellon said: "If it's business. If you, the leader of the wolf pack, don't start hunting, what business will our little wolf cubs have?"

"If I had to find one, it might only be the year-end reception we talked about yesterday."

Abel nodded: "Then let's talk about this first."

Yesterday, Abel was on the plane back from Los Angeles.

Talked to David Mellon on the phone.

David was on the phone and gave him a suggestion.

This suggestion is that David Mellon believes that it will be at the end of this year, or even at the end of this month.

Smith Capital should hold a year-end reception like other Wall Street companies.

Giants like Goldman Sachs, MG, Merrill Lynch, and medium-sized financial companies.

Most of them will hold such banquets at the end of the year or in the middle of the year.

At this reception, all the senior management of the company were present.

Guests favored by the company.

For example, other Wall Street giants, or other influential and wealthy investors, or elites in other fields.

will be invited.

To put it bluntly, it is to show off your muscles and make more allies and customers at the same time.

In the world of capital, the ability to make money is the only muscle.

Abel understands all these.

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, he had received many invitations to such receptions.

Goldman Sachs, MG, Chase, Merrill Lynch, Lehman, and the top and bottom-ranked companies on Wall Street all sent him similar invitations.

He didn't go.

"Smith Capital has been established for almost a year."

David Mellon said: "There has not been a reception until now. This is very abnormal in the industry."

"You don't know how many people have asked me when Smith Capital will hold a reception."

"Okay, now my boss finally agrees. When I meet these people asking again, I can finally answer directly."

"I don't need to mention the past. Let's talk about the reception at the end of this year."

Abel said:

"I think Waldorf Astoria or Hilton are good. Well, let's take the Hilton Hotel. Anyway, I also talked to Barry Hilton a few times."

David Mellon raised his eyebrows, "Is that all?"

"What else?" Abel said angrily, "Do I have any other relationship with Hilton?"

"Paris" David muttered in a low voice.

"Okay, okay." He said again:

"Then let's go to the Hilton Hotel. As for the guests, guests are always invited for a reception. You should give me the list of guests, right?"

“First and foremost our clients. The folks at Private Equity #1.”

Abel thought for a while, and he said:

"Secondly, the banks we mainly cooperate with. In addition, some leading figures in New York should also send invitation letters to them."

David nodded.

"So. Boss, I respect, do you have any guests that you need to specially invite?"

Abel thought for a while and replied:

"I didn't think of it for the time being. I can give you ten places, and you can invite anyone you want. I will give Meriot five places. I will think of someone to invite later, and I will notify you later."

"OK." David gestured, nodded and said:

"Okay. The last is time, boss, when will our reception be held?"

"I remember like a lot of companies are in December, and others are in January and February?"

Abel asked.

"In general."

"Then let's not join in the fun with them." Abel said directly:

"It's just this month. Today is the fifth, let's just be the fifteenth. There are still ten days left."

"OK~"

David made the OK gesture again.

Smith Capital's first year-end reception was decided so simply.

After talking about this matter, David Mellon chatted with Abel about another matter.

"BOSS, you made me pay attention to energy companies that are not doing well. Although I don't know why, there is just such a company right now, and its ownership structure is in trouble."

"Oh?"

Abel suddenly became interested.

His confession,

Commanded David as early as he set off from Houston to Los Angeles.

At that time, his idea was to acquire some small and medium-sized energy companies, or listed energy companies.

Merged and reorganized with Ales Energy, which he bought in Tarrant County.

Directly use the way of buying, buying, and buying to achieve your own layout in terms of energy.

For a month, there was no news from David.

Except that he is in Los Angeles, information exchange is somewhat inconvenient.

Also because Abel asked David to pay attention to those medium and large energy companies.

This kind of energy company, although there are quite a few in the United States.

But under normal circumstances, their operating conditions are not bad.

It takes a certain amount of time to wait for the right opportunity to win this kind of company.

"Which company is it?" Abel asked.

"Sempra Energy."

David Mellon said a name: "Sampla Energy, you may have heard of its name."

"Sampla Energy Company?" Abel thought for a while.

He remembered that this seemed to be West Coast, a large energy company that had just been established but was not small.

The reason why the scale can reach a certain level not long after its establishment.

Established for two years at the same time, it has been listed for two years.

Abel remembers that this is because this company is a new company after the merger of two listed energy companies.

David also confirmed this.

"The predecessor of Sempra Energy is Pacific Energy and Enova Natural Gas."

"They merged in 1998 and then went public again. At present, the company has a total share capital of 250 million, about $70+ per share, and a total market value of $17.6 billion."

With a market value of US$17.6 billion, Abel raised his eyebrows.

This volume,

In the current US energy market, and even the global energy market.

It can already be called one of the energy giants.

"What about the equity structure? What is the equity structure of Sempra Energy?" Abel asked.

"Currently, the company's largest shareholder is the Martin family of the former Pacific Energy Company. After the merger of the two companies, the Martin family currently holds about 23.5% of Sempra Energy."

"The second largest shareholder is the Taylor family of Yinova Natural Gas, with a shareholding ratio of about 16.73%."

"The third largest shareholder is Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, with a shareholding ratio of 5%."

"The stock **** bought it at the end of 1997. When he bought it, he spent 300 million U.S. dollars. Now these stocks are worth more than 800 million U.S. dollars."

"In less than three years, the stock **** has made more than 500 million U.S. dollars in profits from Sempra Energy."

"This income ratio can only be said to be worthy of Buffett."

It can be heard that David Mellon still has some respect for Buffett.

This is also normal.

Buffett became famous in the mid-80s, when David was a kid.

His family is also a financial family, probably the kind that grew up listening to Buffett's stories since childhood.

After the 1990s, due to the vague guidance of relevant US departments.

Buffett and Soros are called the twin swords of imperial finance all over the world, and they are very famous.

"300 million U.S. dollars, and only made 500 million U.S. dollars in three years, which is too slow." Abel commented like this.

David was speechless after hearing this.

Because David knows that most people in the world dare not and are not qualified to comment on Buffett in this way.

But Abel has such a qualification.

Abel is even okay, pointing to Buffett's nose and saying this to Buffett.

"Okay. I forgot that you are a super pervert." David Mellon shrugged:

"Compared to you. Any investor in this world has become an ordinary person."

"Okay. Don't talk about this, let's talk about Sempra Energy. Why do you think that now is the right time to buy it."

Abel is not interested in comparing with Buffett.

Buffett, that is half talent and half family background.

Which part accounts for more, it is really hard to say.

As for Abel himself, he thinks he is pure talent!

"There is something wrong with the Taylor family."

David Mellon said: "The old Taylor of Yinova Gas is dead. Mark Taylor passed away suddenly half a month ago."

"Due to sudden death, Mark Taylor left no will."

"Without a will, there will be no clear heirs to his huge property."

"The three Taylor brothers began to compete for property. Because they accounted for a large proportion of Sempra Energy, even Sempra Energy's stock was affected."

"In addition, because there is no will, the Federal Department of Justice and the district attorney may both intervene."

"The three Taylor brothers reached a temporary settlement in a short period of time."

"They insisted on selling all the shares of the Taylor family and exchanging them for cash."

"Then the three brothers will "discuss" the distribution of the inheritance."

David looked at Abel: "Now Taylor, waving stocks and selling them all over the United States."

“A lot of people have expressed interest. Including the Martin family of Sempra Energy.”

"In addition, three giants in the same industry, Con Edison Electric, American Electric Power, and Duke Energy, have also expressed clear interest."

"Even Wall Street, some people are very excited."

Sempra Energy Corporation is a new company, it is an electric and natural gas utility company.

It has six subsidiaries, which basically cover the functions of all energy companies.

Its business scope is almost equivalent to China's Sinopec + State Grid.

Of course, the scale is far inferior to these two.

It is energy and electricity, which is how many energy companies in the United States play.

Even the Ales company in Abel's hands is the same.

It also develops power plants, opens gas plants, digs natural gas mines, sells electricity through wires, refines oil, and sometimes digs other mines. It is almost omnipotent.

In a capitalist country, they can do whatever they want with money.

Among them, Sempra Energy can probably rank around 9-11 among the same type of electric and natural gas utilities in the United States.

There is no doubt that this is a behemoth, with about 13,000 employees under its banner.

This time, due to internal reasons, there was an opportunity to get a large amount of its shares.

David Mellon felt that Abel really wanted to enter the energy industry.

Sampra Energy would be a good choice.

And Abel's response was—

"What are you waiting for?"

Abel said to David: "Hurry up and send invitations to the three Taylor brothers. Ask them to come to our annual meeting. Also tell them that we will be more sincere than everyone else."

"I knew you would do this." David said with a smile:

"No problem, I'll invite them right away."

"If they heard your name before, they might have hesitated."

"But now. I think they heard that Abe Smith is interested in their stock, and they will definitely hold back and save it for your offer."

Abel raised his eyebrows, he looked at David and said:

"Hey, that's the thing about being famous. It's one of the reasons why I'm in Hollywood."

David responded with a "hehe" smile.

"Right." David Mellon said again.

"The little girl of the Hearst family, I thought of doing an internship in our company again. The little girl couldn't find you, so she came to me. Dear playboy, do you want to bring the little girl in to be your secretary?"

Amanda Hearst?

Abel thought of the eldest lady of the Hearst family he met at the reception a month ago.

Amanda Hearst, who is only sixteen years old.

The little girl looks very good, even a little prettier than Ikana.

Abel remembered that she had a tear mole on her face.

When she smiles, that tear mole will add a bit of mature female charm to the young girl.

Mentioning this Amanda Hearst, Abel remembered that she had a cousin who also belonged to the Hearst family.

Abel scratched his head, and he looked at David Mellon.

"What do you mean, David, do you think I should let her in again?"

"It depends on what you mean." David Mellon said softly.

Abel raised his eyebrows, wondering why David kicked the ball back again.

"What I mean by this sentence" David Mellon said softly: