In a standing room only conversation that finished day one of the Schwab Impact 2012 conference in Chicago on Wednesday, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Chuck Schwab, Scott Nuttall and George Roberts of KKR. The three men took questions from Bartiromo and the audience of advisors, traded stories of their storied careers and discussed the investment opportunities they see even in these volatile times.
Schwab was clearly the star, and the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab & Co. spoke in his trademark blunt way about the role of alternative investments in his own portfolio, the likelihood that we will go over the fiscal cliff and why he's ready to write a "bigger check" in taxes to help address the nation's fiscal woes.
First, Schwab revealed that in his personal portfolio, he holds 15 percent to 20 percent in alternative investments, and that he likes the opportunities presented by private credit investment vehicles (which KKR offers) particularly now that the banks are not providing much in the way of financing to businesses.
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Jamie Green is editor of Jamie Green Reports, an advisor-focused writing, editing and shepherding service. He can be reached at [email protected]. Jamie is former Group Editorial Director of the Investment Advisory Group at ALM Media, where he had overall editorial responsibility for ThinkAdvisor.com and Investment Advisor and Research on Wealth magazines, monthly print magazines that have served advisors of all kinds for more than 30 years. In more than 30 years of experience in print and electronic journalism, Jamie has been covering the investment advisory industry since 1999. In the 1990s he worked for nine years at The New York Times, where he was editor of TimesFax, an electronic version of the newspaper of record now known as TimesDigest. In the 1980s he was editor of Tele/Scope, a pioneering electronic news service based in New York, and was editor of Telecommunications Research, a monthly journal. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Hyacinth College in Granby, Massachusetts, and studied theology on the graduate level at St. Anthony-on-the-Hudson, Rensselaer, New York.
