The final party last night was besieged by the crew until it was drunk. Simon woke up only at noon the next day.

After washing up, I went downstairs. The hotel felt empty. It was already dinner time, but there were not many people in the restaurant. I was busy for more than three months. After the shooting, everyone obviously arranged a relaxing schedule. Some people could not wait to return to the United States.

Peter Jackson, who had been waiting in the restaurant, saw Simon appear and stood up to say hello to him before the two sat down together.

Yesterday, after the crew finished work, Simon told Jackson to chat with him at noon today, and he would wait here specifically.

After spending more than three months together, Simon discovered that Jackson was a very easy director assistant, smart and hardworking, and skillful. What's even more rare is that although he was 28 years old, he did not lose his enthusiasm for movies and still maintained a very strong curiosity and desire for knowledge.

If it weren't for the greater expectations of Jackson, Simon would definitely bring him back to Hollywood and train him to become a signed producer for Daenerys Entertainment. Compared to directors, Simon felt that Jackson seemed to be more suitable for the profession of producers.

After the two ordered the meal, they chatted casually for a few words. Simon asked Jackson, "Peter, have you figured out what you plan to do in the future?"

Peter Jackson smiled and looked at Simon, with a bit of cunning meaning, saying, "Simon, I still haven't figured out why you hired me."

Simon did not explain this doubt to Jackson, but said, "There are many things in this world that have no answers."

"So," Jackson hesitated for a moment, saying, "maybe, I still hope to stay in New Zealand."

After saying this, Jackson clearly looked relieved. He felt that Simon should have wanted to recruit him to Hollywood today. Such an opportunity is probably what every filmmaker dreams of. After the final party last night, although he drank some wine and considered this matter, he was awake and sleepless all night.

At this time, I said my decision and the struggle that had been struggling for the whole night finally disappeared.

Simon was a little surprised that Jackson took the initiative to make such a decision, and was relieved in a blink of an eye.

In my memory, Peter Jackson missed many opportunities from Hollywood in order to stay in New Zealand. Simon admired people who insisted in their hearts. No matter what the reason for this persistence was, if Jackson was very eager to go to Hollywood in today's conversation, Simon might really take him to Los Angeles.

However, if that happens, Jackson is destined to miss some chances.

Seeing that Simon was a little silent, Jackson thought the young Hollywood tycoon was a little displeased with his answer, and quickly explained: "Simon, I am very grateful for the opportunity you gave me on the "Batman" crew, but I don't think I am suitable for Hollywood. I am a person who doesn't like to bind, but Hollywood has too many rules and regulations that restrict filmmakers."

When Simon heard Jackson's tone of an anxious explanation, he roughly understood his thoughts, and stopped 'persuading' and smiled and said, "Okay, since that's the case, I respect your choice. In addition, although the filming of "Batman" has ended, Daenerys Entertainment's branch in Australia will continue to operate, and will invest in a batch of local Australian movies every year in the future. I have watched your "The Monster of the Universe", which is very interesting, so, do you have any ideas now?"

Peter Jackson realized that Simon's attitude was not cold because of his rejection. Although he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, he still talked about his idea of ​​an alternative mutton drama in a black comedy style.

Simon knew that this was Jackson's evil-funny "Crazy Fat Treasure Variety Show", a very thoughtful mutton movie, telling the story of a group of variety show animals with bright appearances, but each has a dark and depraved side in private.

The two discussed it during lunch time, and Simon also helped add some bad jokes, and finally agreed to invest $1 million in Jackson in the name of New World Pictures' Australian branch.

After lunch, Simon rushed to Johnston Holdings headquarters.

During the entire lunch process, including during the previous few months of work, neither Simon nor Jackson talked about anything related to "The Lord of the Rings". Jackson's current strength is far from controlling a large production series like "The Lord of the Rings". Perhaps he had the idea of ​​filming "The Lord of the Rings" for a long time, but Jackson now obviously has self-knowingness. As far away as New Zealand, he may not even know who the copyright of the Tol King series is in, so he naturally did not mention it rashly.

In the original time and space, Jackson started his directorial career with "The Monster of the Universe". It took him a full ten years to start the production of "The Lord of the Rings" and became famous in one fell swoop, creating a fantasy epic series that is difficult to cross in the history of film.

Now, although Simon has the same expectations for Jackson, he has no intention of forcing the growth.

When I came to the office of Cersei Capital, the headquarters of Johnston Holdings, it was already past 2 pm, and the exchanges in Singapore and Tokyo had closed.

During this period, the Japanese stock market continued to rise in fluctuations.

Simon kissed Janet on the face, who was still holding a microphone, and looked at the terminal of the stock display in the office. As of the afternoon closing, the Nikkei 225 index had reached 34,793 points, leaving only 2,207 points away from Simon's planned 37,000 points.

It is still the end of April. It is obvious that because of Simon, the big butterfly, the rise of the Japanese stock market has exceeded the original time and space. Simon also knew that this was not because of the contribution of Cersei Capital's more than one billion US dollars, but he was more like a catalyst for the accelerated growth of the entire market.

You should know that according to statistics from some investment banks on Wall Street, the scale of global hedge funds has more than doubled in recent months.

Compared with the total scale of trillions of dollars in the hedge fund field in later generations, before Simon entered the Japanese stock market, the total scale of global hedge funds was only US$30 billion, of which Soros's quantum fund with less than US$2 billion is already the largest.

However, a few months later, the total size of the public hedge funds has reached nearly $70 billion.

Simon's "one-night wealth" in the US stock index futures market two years ago stimulated too many people. These hedge funds were obviously influenced by him and rushed to Asia, and then followed Simon like a shark smelling blood. In addition, other capital forces with larger scale, pension funds, investment banks, commercial banks and other capital forces have entered the market, so it is not difficult to understand that the growth rate of the Japanese stock market has accelerated.

According to the current growth rate, it only takes two months at most, and the Nikkei 225 index can reach 37,000 points, and it can reach above 38,000 points in July and August.

Because of the large number of speculative blind "leeks" entering the market crazily, Cersei Capital's returns became more and more abundant.

In the statistics last week, Cersei Capital's net asset value has exceeded the $2 billion mark, reaching $2.23 billion. The profit rate has also broken through the 30% dividing line set by Simon, reaching 42%. Simon directly gave up the practice of charging 2% management fees to investors and set up a ladder sharing plan.

Now, for more than 30%, Simon will be able to draw 30% of the profit as a commission.

After Janet finished the phone call, she hugged Simon again, then picked up a pile of documents and pulled him to a small office next door.

Entering the office, Janet pressed Simon on a leather chair, sat down on the man's lap, picked up the documents he had just brought in and opened it: "Two analysts at Fund No. 5 recently conducted some research on the Michael Milken incident. They believe that because Milken was investigated, the junk bond market turned cold, and there may be a junk bond default wave in the United States in the second half of the year. Look."

Simon took the document from Janet and looked through it with one hand around the woman's small waist. After several months of accumulation, he could easily understand these analysis reports.

It is not difficult to find out from the capital scale that the hedge fund field is still in its early stages of development. In my memory, it was probably after the 1990s, especially after Soros became famous in the sniping pound, which triggered explosive growth in the hedge fund industry. Now, Simon feels that many hedge fund managers may not have the rich experience of him.

What's more, Simon still has a huge advantage in being a human being for two lifetimes.

After carefully reading the documents in his hand, Simon easily collected some information about the North American junk bond market in his memory.

As the two analysts in the document said, I remember that it was probably October of the second half of this year. The junk bond market caused a series of chain reactions due to defaults by some companies, which once caused both the North American stock market and the bond market to plummet, and was called a "small collapse" after the stock market crash in 1987.

After reading the information in his hand, Simon asked Janet in his arms, "What are you going to do?"

"Didn't you say we're going to stop at 37,000 points," Janet said with her arms around Simon's neck, "In this case, we will be operating in Japan for two or three months at most. During the market turn, Cersei Capital can just avoid going to North America to play and short junk bonds."

Although it was impossible to explain the reason, Simon did not hide his judgment from Janet, but said that he believed that the Japanese stock market would reach up to 40,000 points at most. He hoped to reserve enough room for operation for Cersei Capital, so he began to withdraw at 37,000 points and completely left before 38,000 points.

After 38,000 points, Simon could no longer judge the direction of the Japanese stock market. It is indeed a good opportunity to temporarily avoid waiting for the situation to be clear. When the Japanese market really turns, it is a new sell-off.

However, when hearing that Janet wanted to short junk bonds, Simon couldn't help but remember the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 in memory. He didn't want the Japanese stock market to collapse because of Cersei Capital, nor did he want the federal government to think that it was himself destroying the junk bond market on Wall Street.

Although Soros is the object of worship for many people, he is deeply hated by governments around the world.

Simon is a serious businessman and does not intend to work as a hedge fund for the rest of his life. If he is hated because he is too over-performed in the financial market, which will affect the development of Westeros' other fields, it will be completely unworthy of the loss.

After careful consideration, Simon confirmed that the collapse of junk bonds would never be as large as in 2008. Because the credit default swap financial derivatives that triggered the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 have not yet been born.

The so-called credit default swap (CDS) is roughly an insurance product, more vivid, and can be said to be a bet. Both parties to the contract bet on whether a certain bond will default. If not, the company selling this financial derivative will continue to receive "premiums". Once the debt defaults, the contract seller will have to pay expensive "claims".

Compared with traditional insurance, the biggest feature of CDS is that the "insured" party does not need to hold some kind of bond. In a popular analogy, the buyer and seller of the contract are completely standing on the side of the road, betting casually whether an accident occurs in a passing car, or whether a house on the side of the road will catch fire, and then trade.

Fundamentally, this is a kind of speculation.

In my memory, the total value of the US subprime bond market around 2008 was only US$7 trillion, but the CDS market around subprime bonds was as high as US$62 trillion. Therefore, only a small number of subprime bonds defaulted, and under the influence of leverage, the global financial market almost disappeared.

Now, CDS products have not appeared yet, and Janet just shorts junk bonds through traditional methods, which cannot cause too much trouble.

Confirming his judgment, Simon patted Janet on his waist and said, "You can just follow the situation, but there is one thing, don't take too much risk."

Janet felt that Simon had obviously not told him anything, but did not ask questions. She came over and put on the man's face, and said insincerely: "I know."

It's one thing to know, but it's one thing to listen or not.

Simon was a little helpless and didn't dare to tell Janet the concept of CDS. Once he said it, with this woman's crazy little personality, he would definitely make this thing in advance. If the big crisis in memory occurs in the future, and he traces back to the root cause, he finds that CDS is actually related to Simon Westeros, that would be a big joke.

The two stayed at Cersei Capital headquarters for an afternoon and did not return to the Kendall Hotel, but rushed to the Johnston house in the evening.

After staying in Melbourne for a few days and dealing with some of the final work of the crew, Simon also reached the time to return to North America. Janet will continue to stay in Australia because he wants to operate Cersei Capital.

In a mansion in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

This is a property carefully selected and purchased by Simon and Janet in recent times. The mansion covers two acres of land and is not far from the Johnston House mansion, only about 5 kilometers.

After the filming of "Batman", Simon quickly moved out of the Kendall Hotel. He has been living with Janet in the Johnston mansion in recent days. Most of the crew members have been in North America one after another. Jennifer, who still wants to stay to help Simon handle matters, is temporarily arranged to organize this place. This will be the small nest when Simon and Janet come to Melbourne in the future.

It was fine for a few short days, but neither of them liked to live in the Johnston mansion for a long time.

We will set off in the afternoon and fly back to North America.

In the living room of the luxury villa, Janet helped Jennifer pack his luggage together, and many of them were Simon's, mainly for gifts purchased for everyone in Los Angeles.

Looking at Simon, who was lying on the living room sofa, casually reading a document on his knee while leisurely reading a piece of information on his knee, Janet stuffed a gift box into his trunk, and his eyes turned around, and suddenly said to Jennifer: "Jenny, I suddenly thought of a very interesting Chinese name, which is very suitable for you."

Jennifer raised his head in confusion: "Hmm?"

Janet looked at Simon again, and smiled and said a name that was a bit difficult to describe but rarely standard for Westerners: "Xiren, what do you think?"

Jennifer was confused and looked at Simon.

In private, in order to follow up with her boyfriend's pace, Janet has never stopped learning Chinese. The woman in the original book "Dream of Red Mansions" is still often read. Simon naturally knew this, and at this moment, she just turned around and glanced at Janet and said, "Then what Chinese name did you give yourself?"
Chapter completed!