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Business Brief: Brookfield’s next act

Good morning. I cover the world of institutional investors – a dull name for the very interesting pension funds and private equity titans putting trillions of dollars to work in almost any industry you can name.

With tariffs making investors’ heads spin, I went to New York to hear from Bruce Flatt , the low-key CEO of investment giant Brookfield Asset Management, who still thinks the glass is (at least) half full. More on that to come, but first:

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