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One may wonder why countries have hardly ever issued GDP-linked securities.
The carry trade today is very attractive, especially for longer-maturity securities, because the break-even point occurs at the most depreciated real exchange rate in decades.
Areas that will become open to foreign participation include banking, securities, insurance, payments, and ratings services.
Similar comments were made about the US Federal Reserve in 2008, after it began large-scale purchases of non-conventional assets, including agency debt and mortgage-backed securities, in order to support the collapsing US housing market.
It then spread to financial institutions that could not cope with the losses associated with mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures, and the depreciation of housing-related securities.
An audit would also reveal more details about financial-market interventions like those in 2008, when the Fed purchased mortgage securities from Bear Stearns and AIG.
The risk here is that providing too much information in real time about the securities that the Fed is buying and the institutions that it is helping could destabilize markets.
These war chests were kept mainly in dollar assets, especially US Treasury securities.
That gave the Fed the ability in 2010 to begin its massive monthly purchases of long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
The Fed increased its securities holdings from less than $1 trillion in 2007 to more than $4 trillion today.
Asia's central banks have bought hundreds of billions of dollars of US securities.
Following the 2008 financial meltdown, the US Federal Reserve cut the policy rate to almost zero and pursued so-called quantitative easing (QE), by purchasing long-term securities from the public and private sectors.
In the US, this happened when investors discovered that even AAA-rated asset-backed securities were in reality risky.
The US wanted the Chinese money, but it was not prepared to offer anything more than structured securities of questionable creditworthiness, as well as government paper that is now clearly exposed to the risk of inflation and devaluation.
And the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), which sets standards for exchanges and securities regulators, has name recognition in some quarters.
With no current-account surplus, China would no longer be a net purchaser of US government bonds and other foreign securities.
If Greece had defaulted, not only would Portugal, Spain, and other weaker eurozone economies have been threatened, but Europe would have faced a run on its securities.
They thought that financial innovations could somehow turn bad mortgages into good securities, meriting AAA ratings.
For example, under the internationally-agreed Basel Committee rules that were in place before the 2008 crash, capital requirements for business loans were five times higher than for mortgage-backed securities that had AA or AAA ratings.
Banks naturally avoided traditional business loans (which would have to be backed by more capital), and instead loaded up on the highest-yielding – and thus riskiest – AA or AAA mortgage- backed securities that they could find.
Encouraging banks to turn loans kept on their books into securities also helped reduce the overall level of caution in the extension of credit.
It is possible that, before the end of the decade, China’s current-account surplus will move into deficit, as the country imports more than it exports and spends its foreign-investment income on imports rather than on foreign securities.
Financial reforms are in the hands of People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang, a US-educated economist, and the chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, Guo Shuqing, an Oxford-trained economist with experience in provincial leadership, central banking, and securities regulation.
From their perspective, today’s high demand for long-term dollar-denominated securities is easily explained: Asian central banks are buying in order to hold down their currencies, the US Treasury is borrowing short (and thus not issuing that many long-term securities), and US companies are not undertaking the kinds of investments that would lead them to issue many long-term bonds.
The Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve injected huge amounts of cash into their economies through “quantitative easing” (QE) – massive purchases of long-term government and corporate securities.
The competitive forces that underlie stock exchanges were seen to force all securities prices to their true fundamental values.
Companies with a public share worth less than $75 million were exempted, and shareholders who want to propose a slate must hold at least 3% of voting power of the company’s securities and have held it continuously for at least three years.
Once the portfolio was assembled, we sold the projects to a special-purpose vehicle called CRC Breeze Finance, which issued €470,000,000 of asset-backed securities.
Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.
To the extent that executive compensation is tied to the value of specified securities, such pay could be tied to a broader basket of securities, not only common shares.
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