Connor Teskey: Inside Brookfield’s Culture, Capital Allocation, and Competitive Edge

Shane Parrish: Why don’t we start with the State of the Union for Brookfield. You guys manage about a trillion dollars. Where is it allocated and how is it allocated? 

Connor Teskey: Our business today is really built around raising capital from the largest pools of money around the world and then turning around and deploying that capital into the largest and most attractive investment themes around the world. As a result, we are a very global business. We raise money all over the world, and then equally we deploy it into 60 of the biggest countries and markets. Undoubtedly, our biggest markets continue to be the United States and Western Europe, but we are truly a global business today with operations across Asia-Pac, India, the Middle East, and South America as well.