For much of the past two decades, most of the U.S. government debt was stashed away in the vaults of the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks, and private banks that used it as a kind of cash reserve. At the height of the era of low cost money, the Fed was hoarding $100 billion a …
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Why High Investment Grade Bonds remain the preferred choice?
Bonds and especially those characterized as high investment grade remain the preferred choice for Trust Economics. With yields trading at multi-year highs – a result of interest rate hikes by central banks – government bonds offer returns far better than any deposit account (even term deposits) while missing the risk of equity investments and commodities. …
Why is the only deposit banking product a deposit, while everything else is an investment?
Borrowing rates may be rising, but deposit rates remain at zero, frustrating depositors who see inflation erode the value of their money. The average interest rate on new loans in the Eurozone was 3.85%. In contrast, the average deposit rate was 1.15%. Any attempts by the Central Banks of the ECB in the member countries …
The Alternative Forms of Investment of Small Deposits
As interest rates on traditional banking products have been virtually zero for at least three years, those who used to earn an annual income mainly through time deposits are now required to take the risk of making up for lost interest. Additional pressure is created by the rise in inflation which reduces the value of …
Why Demand for Investment in European Bonds Is Growing
The fact that the ECB, through its programmes of the type of quantum easing (QE) and Pandemic Emergency Purchases Program (PEPP) respectively, provides the market with money, making it the main buyer of European government bonds, forces investors to create an informal queue to buy the remaining and smaller volume of European bonds offerings left …
Family Offices: Remove Privacy or Prohibited Access for State Authorities
The family wealth or wealth management companies respectively, the well-known Family Offices, having the right of confidentiality for their actions are faced with the biggest challenge of their short history, The abolition of their privacy. Family Offices data, functions, and services (see analysis with title «Family Office: How an Attractive Framewrok for the Development of …
Family Office: How an Attractive Framework for The Development of This Industry Is Formed
Countries that want to magnetize such companies-family offices-in order to choose to place their headquarters in their territories, should create an attractive operating framework for the development of this industry, thereby creating a new service industry. What are Family Offices Family Offices are an independent, privately held investment firms, who must adopt their clients’ goals …
Why Stocks are Still Cheaper in Relation to Bonds?
It is a fact that U.S. stock prices are at their highest historical level. But for someone to decide whether to keep their shares in their portfolio in the new year, it will be the wrong strategy to look at how high their share prices can go. What matters to the investor is that the …
The Correct Way of Evaluating the Fund Managers of Social Security Funds
It is the Social Security Funds that pay the pensions and pay the health benefits offered by third parties to their insured persons. This is achieved because of the social security contributions paid by insured persons, employers and in some cases by the State respectively throughout the working life of insured persons. Social Security Contributions …
The Causes of Stock Market Collapse and Safe Future Investment Refuges
Earlier this week the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and in collaboration with Buzzfeed on the content of Fin Cen files and always on the laundering of astronomical amounts for more than twenty years by the largest banks in the world gave the “charismatic shot” to stock market indices that over the …