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The bailouts are prolonging the crisis because they amount to an attempt to keep asset prices at a level above the market equilibrium, creating a unilateral downward risk that is limited only by the deep pockets of the relief funds.
In particular, Germany, the EU’s largest country, has hesitated to contribute forces, funds, and even strategic advice, reflecting its dark military history.
The key lesson from Chile is that a defined-contribution, funded system with individual accounts has some advantages: it can stimulate savings, provide a large and growing stock of investible funds (over $170 billion in Chile), and spur economic growth.
One study estimates that workers treat half of the compulsory savings as a tax on labor income, so too-large an increase (especially in the funds that do not go to the worker’s individual account) could cause a drop in labor-force participation, a shift from formal to informal employment, or both.
That could lead international investors to withhold funds from a departing country and raise substantially the interest rate on its national debt.
That is why the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was designed for maximum flexibility, allowing funds to be channeled into non-profits, directed into private investments, or used to help influence policy debates.
And governments must do more to facilitate a greater flow of private funds into more sustainable infrastructure assets.
This combination of assistance plays to the strengths of bilateral and multilateral partners like the GCC, the EU, and the US, as well as IFIs like the World Bank, the IMF, the EBRD, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and Arab development funds.
The final option is massive, large-scale, and permanent sterilized intervention – or, equivalently, the use of sovereign wealth funds or other fiscal-stabilization mechanisms – to accumulate the foreign assets needed to compensate for the effects on the currency’s value brought about by long-term inflows.
These funds are supposed to get you “alpha”: absolute superior returns, rather than the market “beta.”
Professionally managed investment funds are expensive, because managers trade a lot and are paid hefty fees.
And some of these managers – like hedge funds – are not available to average investors.
As a result, actively managed funds typically do worse than passive funds, with returns after fees even lower and riskier.
Weeding out the bad and the ugly based on these scores, and thus picking more of the good apples, has been shown to provide higher returns with lower risk than actively managed alpha or passive beta funds.
With better returns than passive beta funds at a lower cost than actively managed funds, smart beta vehicles are increasingly available and becoming more popular.
Instead, it should allow private equity funds, which have accumulated large amounts of savings as they await good investment opportunities, to act as AMCs, bidding for the NPLs at a discount.
Indeed, as higher profits and their automatic redistribution via the UBD boosted incomes, more funds would become available for the welfare state.
Like any socially responsible company, they must evaluate how their funds are distributed and consider the broader impact of their behavior on local communities.
For the first time, an international agreement offers the least developed countries funds to cover some of the loss and damage caused by climate shocks.
We are drawn to heartwarming stories of an understanding teacher who sees a student’s potential and helps her get into university, or a frequent diner who funds a kitchen worker’s dream to start his own restaurant.
If poor countries spent their entire estimated tax capacity on education, they would need at least $25 billion in additional funds.
A pool of designated funds that leaders could access quickly would have helped the millions of children trapped in conflicts in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, or the million left without schools by the recent earthquake in Nepal.
There are also well-known examples of highly corrupt union pension funds, such as the one bilked for years by the leadership of the Teamsters.
Will you work to redefine the criteria by which countries get access to funds?
The world’s 300 largest pension funds control almost $15 trillion, and sovereign wealth funds have amassed about $6.5 trillion in assets.
In Africa, pension funds own assets amounting to nearly $400 billion.
The challenge is to channel these funds toward development and poverty alleviation in a way that is attractive to investors.
In other parts of the world, capital markets have proven to be effective intermediaries in allocating savings and other funds to national development priorities.
This pool of reserves surpasses developing countries’ immediate liquidity needs, leading to their increased creation and expansion of sovereign wealth funds, which have an additional level of assets of more than $3 trillion.
One reason for this, no doubt, is anxiety that enlargement entails -- as it must -- some national or sectoral sacrifices of material economic interests; for example in the reform of the structural funds or the common agricultural policy.
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