Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: David Bailin & Ian Bremmer
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Tom Keene breaks down the Single Best Idea from the latest edition of Bloomberg Surveillance Radio.
In this episode, we feature our conversations with CIO Group’s David Bailin & Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is rewriting the Washington rulebook and reshaping the global economy. |
| 0:06.9 | If you're trying to connect the dots behind the headlines, Bloomberg's Trumponomics podcast is here to help. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of government and economics at Bloomberg. |
| 0:16.4 | Every week I'll bring you a smart, focused conversation with reporters and experts from Washington, |
| 0:22.4 | Wall Street and beyond. Listen to new episodes every Wednesday and follow Trumponomics wherever |
| 0:28.4 | you listen. Audio Studios. Podcasts Radio News. |
| 0:45.6 | A single best idea. We'll be quick about it today, right in the heart of economic data, retail sales today. Really soggy, substantial bond market move follows into the morning. |
| 0:52.4 | We'll see how they end up the day before that jobs report tomorrow and then right on to a CPI report, the key inflation report on Friday. |
| 1:00.9 | Where are we going to be Friday at 9 a.m.? I have no idea. We talked to David Baylon, |
| 1:07.3 | exquisite at Citigroup and now at CIO group, David Baylon was absolutely brilliant |
| 1:12.9 | on the hidden fees of asset management. Here, on the basis points charged. |
| 1:20.3 | The street does not tell the client, both the performance of the underlying individual managers |
| 1:26.1 | in their account, and the total fee low that they're paying on any of the statements individual managers in their account and the total |
| 1:28.0 | fee low that they're paying on any of the statements that they're getting, and the families |
| 1:32.7 | do not aggregate their accounts across multiple advisors to actually see how they're doing. |
| 1:38.6 | Those two things are remarkable in this today and age, given the technology that we have |
| 1:42.6 | available. |
| 1:43.6 | And if a family does that, |
| 1:45.5 | the oh my of it is extraordinary. This is a fee that's the equivalent of nine or 10 percent of what |
| 1:52.3 | they earn in an average year. That's what they're paying in total fees. And it is shocking to me |
| 1:58.0 | that that is the state of the industry. Add to that the fact that most clients are getting a model, |
| 2:03.3 | and the model that they're getting and managing their assets is backward-looking, |
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