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Some might counter that the holdout hedge funds that sued Argentina deserve no sympathy, either.
In a time of growing complexity – and thus uncertainty – investors want to hedge their bets.
Today’s financial markets are dominated by non-bank institutions – investment banks, money market funds, hedge funds, mortgage lenders that do not accept deposits, so-called “structured investment vehicles,” and even states and local government investment funds – that have no direct or indirect access to the liquidity support of central banks.
So the risk of something equivalent to a bank run for non-bank financial institutions, owing to their short-term liabilities and longer-term and illiquid assets, is rising – as recent runs on some banks (Northern Rock), money market funds, state investment funds, distressed hedge funds suggests.
That is why the strategy of integration, plus a hedge against uncertainty, makes sense for both the US and Japan.
Economists employed by banks, hedge funds, and other businesses were expected to provide a short-term “view” for their employers and clients; and to dispense their “wisdom” to the general public through interviews and media appearances.
This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.
With financial assets failing to bring adequate dividends or capital appreciation, many investors have switched to real estate as a hedge against inflation.
We see this in the current discussion about the distributional effects of rescuing the automobile industry; or the worry that hedge funds, which are widely blamed for today’s financial malaise, should have access to the Fed’s emergency credit lines.
Hedge funds can also destabilize the system, as the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998 demonstrated.
In the late 1990’s, the US hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management convinced the world that its partners were masters of the universe.
There is talk in many countries, even the US, that the time has come to ensure that the entire financial system, including hedge funds and investment banks, become subject to much stricter regulation.
And 2% of assets under management is an annual fee that many sophisticated investors have been willing to pay private hedge funds – topped off with an extra fee of 20% of annual profits, which the Treasury is not paying.
The “Volcker rule,” whereby commercial banks would be barred from trading on their own account, and from owning hedge funds and private-equity firms, languishes in Congress.
Gold prices rise sharply only in two situations: when inflation is high and rising, gold becomes a hedge against inflation; and when there is a risk of a near depression and investors fear for the security of their bank deposits, gold becomes a safe haven.
And some of it is coming from private investors, who are using gold as a hedge against what remain low-probability “tail” risks (high inflation and another near-depression caused by a double-dip recession).
Indeed, investors increasingly want to hedge against such risks early on.
So the relationship is liable to go wrong at the worst possible time: when a hedge would be most useful, the asset you were relying on becomes a risk.
Many financial derivatives were developed for exactly this reason – to allow both financial and non-financial companies to hedge their overall returns.
Partly for these reasons, using currencies to hedge overall portfolios, or to have exposures that are related to other asset markets, has become increasingly popular.
Of course, a good hedge lasts only as long as such correlations persist.
The Fed’s defense of the big banks – that it is important for borrowers to be able to hedge their risks – reveals the extent to which it has been captured.
The credit freeze is partly the work of bankers and hedge fund managers who acted just like Nadya Suleman, leveraging the present for an unrealizable future.
Through pension funds, investment funds, and arbitrage (or hedge) funds, shareholders became well organized and seized power in developed countries’ firms.
Trading in derivatives by investment banks, hedge funds, and other market participants, reaps huge profits for traders while depriving the real economy of productive investment and job creation.
While suggesting that it would be prudent for countries to hedge against the worst-case scenario, Rudd made clear that he is an optimist: provided the rest of the world maintains a policy of cooperative engagement with China, incoming President Xi Jinping and his team will choose a non-confrontational path.
As the recession deepens, however, bank balance sheets will be hammered further by a wave of defaults in commercial real estate, credit cards, private equity, and hedge funds.
The US, the world’s banker, had mutated into the world’s hedge fund.
Still, in Poland, its leaders hedge, preferring to stress the importance of national independence rather than democracy.
On the contrary, you will seek to hedge your bets by ensuring that citizenship is constituted by individual rights of participation in collective projects, backed up by a legal system that guarantees these rights.
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