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Our democratically elected government has worked with international partners and a growing number of private investors to turn things around.
It was assumed that the improvement in investors’ portfolio performance – reflected in a more than threefold rise in the S&P 500 from its crisis-induced low in March 2009 – would spur a burst of spending by increasingly wealthy consumers.
And investors must account for the interests of host countries, local communities, and the environment – an approach that is both good and good business.
Under "IMF" theory, investors, seeing government resolve to eliminate deficits, flock to the country, economic performance recovers, and the policy is vindicated.
For example, even if investors in telecoms become utterly confident in the US economy, they are not going to invest in more fiber optics, given today's huge excess capacity.
Similarly, Argentina's export industries were unlikely to attract investors, regardless of the fiscal deficit, given the overvalued exchange rate, low export prices, and the many foreign markets that remain closed to Argentine goods.
Investors in such a situation take a wait-and-see approach.
They are acutely aware of their increasing influence around the world, as investors, trading partners, and as contributors to and victims of environmental change.
Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.
Of course investors who believe that their wealth is securely liquid, and that they are adding value for themselves by buying and selling are suffering from a delusion.
Seventy-three years ago, John Maynard Keynes thought about the reform and regulation of financial markets from the perspective of the first three purposes and found himself “moved toward... mak[ing] the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage...”But he immediately drew back: the fact “that each individual investor flatters himself that his commitment is ‘liquid’ (though this cannot be true for all investors collectively) calms his nerves and makes him much more willing to run a risk...”
For investors and businesses – perhaps including India’s small shopkeepers – this is where the really interesting opportunities will emerge.
Italian savers, for example, still hold a significant volume of foreign assets (including German bonds), and foreign investors still hold a sizeable share of Italian government bonds.
Under full renationalization, Italian investors would sell their foreign assets and acquire domestic bonds, which would insulate Italy from financial shocks abroad and lower the interest-rate burden for the economy as a whole.
If these bonds were acquired by Italian investors (who would have to sell an equivalent amount of low-yielding foreign assets), Italians would save the equivalent of 0.73% of their country’s GDP.
Even if the risk premium doubled, to 500 basis points, the Italian government’s debt-service costs would rise, but the money would be paid to Italian investors (whose higher incomes could then be taxed away).
For example, investors holding derivatives and repo contracts with a weakened financial institution can grab the firm’s assets ahead of – and at the expense of – its regular creditors, possibly sealing its fate, when, with a little extra time, the firm might have survived.
Worse still, because derivatives and repo investors jump to the head of the repayment line in so many ways, they have less incentive to foster market discipline by closely monitoring their counterparties’ solvency and carefully rationing their exposure to any single counterparty.
If investors in derivatives, repos, and credit-default swaps lacked favored treatment, they would behave differently.
We should be examining how to make derivatives and repo investors assume the full risk of their decisions when dealing with systemically vital financial institutions.
The good news is that pressure on companies is mounting, not least because some investors are becoming jittery.
Last month, a coalition of unions, public pension funds, state treasurers, and others established the Investors for Opioid Accountability.
That is also the political message that EU governments want to instill in their own citizens and financial investors.
In fact, if the UK decides to go it alone, big investors could soon rush to the exit.
They contend that the absence of serious international efforts to reduce emissions, the cyclical nature of petroleum markets, investors’ short time horizons, and the fact that most oil assets are state-owned make it unlikely that policies to mitigate climate change will have an impact on oil prices.
Third, while many investors do have short time horizons, development of resources in the oil industry can easily extend to more than a decade.
Finally, the fact that many oil properties are state-owned does not protect investors who have put their money into publicly traded assets.
Governments may have strategic reasons to hold onto unprofitable assets, but investors who own shares in partly privatized state firms do not.
Furthermore, the first victims of any long-term price decrease will be high-cost producers, many of which are publicly traded, leaving investors more – not less – exposed.
Given the political pressure to mitigate the impact of climate change, smart investors will be watching closely for indications of policies that will lead to a drop in demand and the possibility that their assets will become financially stranded.
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