Holdings
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Today, such
holdings
are at least 15% of US GDP – with some estimates as high as 30%.
Given their large, battered
holdings
of peripheral eurozone countries’ sovereign debt, many of Europe’s thinly capitalized banks would be insolvent if their assets were marked to market.
Foreign investors might fear that the government could adopt policies that reduced the real value of their
holdings.
The ECB also bought long-term bonds for its portfolio, increasing the volume of its
holdings
from €2.2 trillion ($2.6 trillion) in 2014 to more than double that amount now.
Many investors are unable to examine the extent to which a bond fund’s high yield is due to risk-taking, and would thus benefit from a rating of the fund’s
holdings.
That trade deficit is financed by foreign investments in America, as savers the world over increase their
holdings
of US stocks and bonds.
While some of the funds serve that purpose and must be held in the most liquid form, most of these large
holdings
are investment funds that will be managed to balance risk and return.
The emerging-market correction in equities, commodities, and fixed-income
holdings
will continue as global storm clouds gather.
In 2010, the last year for which SCF data are available, the top 10% of the US income distribution had median
holdings
of some $267,500 in their equity portfolios, nearly 16 times the median
holdings
of $17,000 for the other 90%.
Moreover, the 2010 SCF shows that the highest decile’s median
holdings
of all financial assets totaled $550,800, or 20 times the
holdings
of the other 90%.
Indeed, most professional investors trashed the tests as dishonest even as their
holdings
benefited from a rising market.
A tax on stock transactions encourages longer-term
holdings.
Banks tend to have close, long-term, and protective ties with the managers of such firms, primarily because the bank's
holdings
are illiquid.
Were Moody’s to follow S&P in stripping the US of its triple-A rating, the most likely outcome is that the universe of global investors who are both able and willing to increase their
holdings
of US government securities would shrink over time.
The US is considering the possibility of imposing a bequest tax on foreign
holdings
of US securities, and many people believe that it will try to play “the Italian card”: inflating away its public debt and devaluing the currency in order to maintain international competitiveness.
But the ECB wants the banks to suffer a 50% loss on their bond holdings, without insurance “benefits” having to be paid.
What these investors do with their
holdings
is crucial.
Why is it that share prices did well in America and Europe, while falling in Asia to the embarrassment of investment managers who pumped tens of billions of dollars unprofitably into Asia, while reducing their US
holdings?
Meanwhile, the development bank’s dividends would be channeled into the long-suffering pension funds, which were abruptly de-capitalized in 2012 (owing to the “haircut” on their
holdings
of Greek government bonds).
South Korea and Taiwan, for example, have foreign-exchange
holdings
of more than $250 billion each, and China’s
holdings
total more than $2 trillion.
These and other countries with very large foreign-exchange balances are beginning to diversify their
holdings
from dollars to euros, a process that will continue and that will inevitably cause the euro to rise relative to the dollar.
And I also know that the complementary pressures on Europe to import funds, and on surplus countries to diversify their currency holdings, will make European travel increasingly expensive in dollar terms.
And investors with smaller dollar holdings, who can shift to other currencies much more easily than the Chinese, are right to ask themselves whether they should be diversifying into non-dollar assets – or even shunning the dollar completely.
If the Chinese now hold $1 trillion in their official portfolios, a 10% rise in the yuan-dollar exchange rate would lower the yuan value of those
holdings
by 10%.
After all, when that decline resumes, their dollar
holdings
will buy less in European markets.
While China has taken minor measures to slow the increase in its dollar-denominated holdings, it has been unwilling to risk a fully convertible currency for domestic political reasons.
Because China’s government does not owe much debt to the public, the PBC sold out its
holdings
of government bonds in 2005.
One key issue facing China is how to reduce the current- and capital-account surpluses in order to reduce foreign-exchange
holdings.
Indeed, many eurozone central banks reportedly have reduced their
holdings
of euro reserves, seeking to diversify into non-traditional currencies.
Indeed, eurozone regulators not only maintained the assumption that the public debt of a bank’s own country was risk-free, but chose to extend it to all eurozone countries, implying that banks did not have to provide additional capital against their
holdings
of any eurozone public debt.
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