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Leading economists, such as Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk-sharing over the conventional bias in favor of debt instruments.
It is also problematic that, in many countries, debt receives advantageous tax treatment, which favors leverage over equity and profit/loss-sharing arrangements.
Gender equity applies to both sexes, but special attention is needed to improve conditions for women and girls.
More important, wealth and consumption in China are closely related to real-estate values, not equity values.
Despite strong corporate earnings – which have been goosed by the US tax cuts – US and global equity markets have drifted sideways in recent months.
Since February, equity markets have been buffeted by fears of rising inflation and import tariffs, and by the backlash against big tech.
The slowdown in some economies could lead to even tighter financial conditions in equity, bond, and credit markets, which could further limit growth.
To enhance the funds’ effectiveness, GPE allocates 30% of funding based on the achievement of specific results chosen by the government and its development partners in the areas of learning quality, education-system efficiency, and equity.
China’s 12th Five-Year Plan lowers the growth forecast (to 7%) to create “space” to deal with issues like equity, sustainability, and the environment.
The injection of government funds would be much less problematic if it were applied to the equity rather than the balance sheet.
First, as plummeting stock prices caused the equity in investors’ accounts to fall below the maintenance margin, brokers began issuing margin calls, forcing investors to offload more assets to come up with the needed cash.
We propose injecting new European public money into the development of risk-sharing instruments and vehicles that support equity investment.
Again, there is an element of truth to this; but we have also seen a great deal of coordination even on the most complex topics – such as how much equity big banks should have, or how the potential failure of such a firm should be handled.
Higher equity-capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.
These are highly leveraged businesses, typically funding their balance sheets with no more than 5% equity (and thus 95% debt).
If house prices go up, you make a good return on your equity (and a better return than if you had put 20% down).
But if house prices go down, your equity may well be wiped out (which is what it means to be underwater on your mortgage).
US banks are currently funded with more equity than was the case before the financial crisis, and they are doing fine.
Many European banks, however, have less equity than their US counterparts, which creates an important source of vulnerability going forward.
If there is to be a broad-based European recovery, the banks must raise more equity, thereby strengthening their ability to absorb potential losses.
They are wary of rocking the financial boat, so they go easy on financial reform and refuse to insist on more equity capital for banks.
The Eurozone Island of StabilityBRUSSELS – Market volatility has surged lately, apparently vindicating those who have warned of lofty equity valuations.
Even a small decrease in bond and equity prices could force investors to sell securities in order to raise cash to meet margin requirements.
Japan’s woes are rooted in real-estate and equity bubbles, which were fueled by monetary expansion aimed at stimulating domestic demand after the 1985 Plaza Accord drove up the yen’s value and hurt Japan’s exports.
Booms and busts in individual equity stocks or specific commodities typically have little macro-level effect: and even huge swings in entire equity-market sectors – such as the NASDAQ boom and bust of 1998-2002 – may have only a mild adverse impact on overall economic growth.
By contrast, property booms and busts have historically been the most dangerous, because the total value of real estate wealth usually dwarfs equity values, and because real-estate booms are often debt-financed.
If the fund does well over the next five years – returns profits of 9% per year –private investors get a market rate of return on their very risky equity investment and the equivalent of an “annual management fee” equal to 2% of assets under management.
If the portfolio does less well – profits of 4% per year – the managers still get a healthy but sub-market return of 10% per year on their equity.
But this is almost certainly wrong, even though it seems to be confirmed by the tight correlation between oil and equity markets, which have fallen to their lowest levels since 2009 not only in China, but also in Europe and most emerging economies.
Its members proposed that universal banks be obliged to set up ring-fenced retail-banking subsidiaries with a much higher share of equity capital.
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