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Of course, developed-country institutional investors do manage a lot of the world’s investable cash – almost $95 trillion in 2011, according to the OECD.
And a growing number of investors care about climate change, with 26% of asset managers (accounting for more than $12 trillion of assets under management) reporting that it factors into their investment decisions.
But investors are reluctant to finance long-term projects, let alone cover the incremental costs of green initiatives, which are projected to add at least another 14% to a $100 trillion climate bill by 2030.
Investors continue to be driven by short-term performance metrics.
The next five largest developing-country investors – Brazil, India, Thailand, South Africa, and Argentina – have invested a combined total of more than $100 billion over the same period.
For example, private investors based in developing countries often assess risk differently, having a more refined appreciation of political risks.
And institutional investors are more interested in green investment that brings development co-benefits, such as job creation.
As investors sought the higher yields on land, property, equities, bonds, and bank deposits that were attainable in emerging markets after 2008, capital inflows to Latin America tripled, boosting asset prices, credit, and aggregate demand.
From 2009 to 2011, with advanced economies pursuing near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing, yield-hungry investors flooded countries like South Korea and Brazil with hot money, fueling currency appreciation and inflating asset bubbles.
Investors looking to do business in Argentina have long been issued similar warnings.
Not long ago, I met with a group of foreign investors in Argentina.
Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars.
Taming the China BearsBEIJING – The market is always in search of a story, and investors, it seems, think they have found a new one this year in China.
These shareholders are represented by institutional investors (pension funds, etc.) whose interests, agendas, and cozy relationships often align them more closely with firms’ CEOs and managers.
And Rousseff’s use of revenues from the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras to fund domestic social programs has caused the firm’s share price to halve – alienating oil investors.
On December 8, a US company, SpaceX, founded by an immigrant and financed mostly by private US investors, successfully launched a spacecraft into orbit and then recovered it from a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Its founder, Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa (who in his spare time also runs Tesla, the electric-car company), funded it with his own money (which he earned at PayPal, another start-up) and that of other private investors.
In the meantime, each of them is competing not for a single grand prize but for a share of a growing market, risking investors’ money and their own reputations.
In the US, for example, Goldman Sachs is advising investors to put their money in “domestic-facing” firms to weather the trade-war storm.
If, however, the crisis results from a coordination failure among investors – when each investor refuses to roll over the government’s debt for fear that others will do the same, leading to a default – monetary policy can play an important role.
Without central-bank involvement, investors’ panicky prophecy would be self-fulfilling, with the resulting spike in borrowing costs making it impossible for the government to repay its creditors.
Longer-term trends in how money is used internationally – particularly as a store of value for foreign investors or central banks – are far more telling.
But if he pursues his protectionist promise to put “America first,” which smacks of xenophobic nationalism, investors and central banks could gradually be impelled to find alternative reserves for their spare billions.
America’s dollar liabilities could reach a tipping point at any time, if skittish investors, seeking an alternative store of value, precipitate an irreversible downward spiral.
The heart of any economy is the mechanism by which funds are channeled from savers to investors.
In the US, this happened when investors discovered that even AAA-rated asset-backed securities were in reality risky.
But even investment-grade Spain and Italy have now suddenly been classified as precarious, implying that risk managers everywhere tell investors to cut their exposure.
Indeed, stock markets are tanking precisely because investors fear that ever-increasing risk premia in the eurozone’s peripheral countries will force them to stop consuming and investing, leading to lower German rates and thus inducing German households to reduce their consumption as well.
The Gain in SpainMILAN – The Spanish economy is beginning to attract investors’ attention – and not only because asset prices are depressed in the current climate (arguably implying a good buy for longer-term, value investors).
But some of the good news about America’s economy was bad news for financial markets, because investors considered the Fed’s potential policy tightening in response to such news to be more relevant than the news itself.
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