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How sovereign is a country once the hedge funds and bond traders mark it down?
When credit expansion is rapid, it may be appropriate to increase banks’ capital requirements as a hedge against the heightened risk of a subsequent contraction.
Greater pay regulation will drive the most talented away from regulated banks and towards hedge funds, private equity funds, boutique investment banks, and other unregulated investment firms.
There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.
Moreover, London's unique role in bringing together the full range of financial services that serve the continent – the City is home to 250 global banks with 160,000 employees and accounts for 80% of Europe's hedge funds, 78% of its foreign-exchange trades, 74% of its derivatives, and 57% of its private equity – would be jeopardized as well.
More generally, they must examine employee ownership programs both sympathetically and analytically, in order to suggest ways to hedge the risks they create.
A hedge expresses caution, not aggression.
Questions, justified or not, about America's ability to retain its dominant position in Asia's security architecture in the medium to long term – together with the rise of isolationist sentiment within the US – have spurred its regional allies and partners, including stalwart friends like Australia, to hedge their strategic bets.
If Europe wants to devise its own rules for credit-rating agencies and hedge funds, it should simply go ahead.
Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms – such as hedge funds – will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.
Is Gold a Good Hedge?
Many gold buyers want a hedge against the risk of inflation or possible declines in the value of the dollar or other currencies.
But is gold a good hedge against these two risks?
Consider first the potential of gold as an inflation hedge.
So gold is a poor inflation hedge.
Moreover, the US government provides a very good inflation hedge in the form of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS).
And, if the price level should fall, a newly issued TIPS bond will return the original nominal purchase price, thus providing a hedge against deflation.
Gold is also a poor hedge against currency fluctuations.
In short, there are better ways than gold to hedge inflation risk and exchange-rate risk.
Nevertheless, although gold is not an appropriate hedge against inflation risk or exchange-rate risk, it may be a very good investment.
The Germans tried to use their leadership in the G8 to achieve greater transparency in hedge funds, but they were beaten back by the US and Great Britain.
Many of China’s neighbors fear that its ongoing economic and military expansion poses a growing threat to their interests and independence, and are reaching out to the US to diversify their security partnerships and hedge their bets on China’s benign intentions.
This gives them a capital base similar to the combined assets of all the world’s major hedge funds.
And hedge funds, unlike banks, can leverage their bets, borrowing to take on assets many times the size of their capital base.
Enter shareholder activist David Einhorn, whose hedge fund Greenlight Capital has been pressing Apple to distribute a healthy fraction of that cash.
Preventive measures should therefore focus on these policy failures rather than degenerating into hostility towards hedge funds and other private-equity devices.
Under the Obama-Volcker proposals, commercial banks would be forbidden to engage in proprietary trading – trading on their own account – and from owning hedge funds and private-equity firms.
Central banks and hedge funds cannot produce long-term economic growth and financial stability.
Nevertheless, it will require some adjustment for New Yorkers seeking to hedge their own real estate investments to sell futures contracts that have a built-in price decline.
They have replaced the young couple of five years ago – he with the hedge fund, she with interior decorators – in a McMansion in Westchester County.
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