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Cluster Family Office on GurusBlog

I am pleased to inform you that as of this week, we are publishing articles periodically in the prestigious GurusBlog. There we will be able to reach an audience that until now did not know us, and therefore our work of disseminating our way of seeing wealth management will have a wider reach. We will not always publish all the articles there and here in duplicate, but some posts will be published only in one of the sites. However, we will always try to publish short notes referring to our articles published in GurusBlog. I hope you enjoy it and here is the first one: «Who moved my Value? The compass of the New Normal«

The note that the ECB never sent...

The ECB has denied that it opposed the Spanish Government’s plan to recapitalise Bankia using Spanish government debt. It has simply issued a brief official statement to the media, explaining that the ECB has not been consulted on the Spanish (bank) recapitalisation plans. But what happened a few hours earlier is more than a little curious. (more…)

La esquizofrenia del negocio bancario

Hay algo peor que ser pobre e insolvente, y es que además se deba esconder la misera y simular opulencia y grandeza. ¡Ay de quien deba disfrazarse de rico, sin serlo, para poder subsistir en su negocio! Porque la insolvencia y la pobreza, con sinceridad y honradez se tornan más dignas, más esperanzadas y menos miserables. Y es que dedicarse a un negocio, como el bancario, que necesariamente obliga a quien lo ejerce a simular riqueza y solidez para ganarse la confianza de sus clientes, es algo con lo que se puede convivir cuando realmente la entidad bancaria es rica y solvente. Pero cuando el negocio se tuerce y el apalancamiento intrínseco a la propia actividad bancaria se come con patatas la solvencia y la solidez de las entidades, esa fachada de opulencia se convierte en una macabra mentira, que acaba con la pérdida esquizofrénica de todo contacto con la realidad (como dijimos enEuroschizophrenia) por parte de los vendedores. Es como atravesar el desierto bien abrigado, sin agua, y teniendo que fingir de forma chulesca y altiva que no existe el calor, el cansancio ni la sed. Surrealista.

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From the Arab Spring to the European winter.

John Mauldin nos deleita esta semana com otro análisis realista («Thoughts from the frontline») del porvenir de la Eurozona. Y lo hace mostrándonos gráficos recopilados de fuentes y colegas de conferencias con los que comparte análisis de este New Normal o Nuevo Paradigma en el que nos ha tocado navegar financiera y patrimonialmente. Comienza recordando en el siguiente gráfico que la deuda total, privada y pública, conviene también analizarla desde la perspectiva del endeudamiento corporativo no financiero (ex-banca). Y aquí vemos como el tejido empresarial español, está proporcionalmente mucho más asfixiado de deuda que en el resto de países hiperendeudados.

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Hollande or Sarkozy, austerity yes or yes.

There are many fears that France will not follow the path of austerity and budgetary rigour, should the socialist Hollande win the elections. But the harsh reality is that the colour of the elected president and his electoral programme are not so relevant. Nor does it seem likely that in the second round Sarkozy will win the support of Le Pen's extreme right-wing voters, but even if Hollande were to win the Elysée, his capacity for manoeuvre would be very, very limited. (more…)

On the hunt for the Spanish elephant

We are in the eye of the storm. But not because of injustice or envy of our northern neighbours—no—but because of our own foolishness. That foolishness which has led us in the past to vote for governments of both political stripes, yet with one thing in common: an inability to manage the Spanish economy. We have missed a golden opportunity, given that economic growth and the surge in job creation in the Eurozone allowed us to boast of macroeconomic figures that made even those of France itself pale in comparison. And so Zapatero proclaimed on occasion, although today it is the Mercozy duo who must stifle their feelings in the face of the grotesque and surreal tragicomedy of the current periphery. «Spain is doing well,» we proclaimed to the four winds just a decade ago. Those were years when illusions of grandeur led the presidents of Spain and Portugal to meet in the Azores with the very presidents of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Aznar, Barroso, Blair and Bush together shaping the plans that were to govern the New World Order. That was only nine years ago, but it seems so long ago…

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What do you want from Spain, Mr Market?

In many talk shows and in the press, we are hearing voices proclaiming the irrationality and delusion of the markets regarding the state of the Spanish economy. It is argued that the fact that Mr Market penalised Spanish bonds before the most austere budget in Spanish democratic history was made public, and continues to do so after the cuts, is irrefutable proof of the markets« madness. They say this is proof that this country’s economic policies must be set regardless of what the markets might think. That »the dictatorship of the markets’ is something we must ignore and fight against… But no. Let’s look at some of the reasons why we must not, and cannot, ignore Mr Market: (more…)

Spanish banking sector: Bailout or default

Ya es un secreto a voces que la banca española debe ser rescatada con fondos europeos. Pese a que oficialmente aún se niega, altos dirigentes europeos son los que han empezado a hacer declaraciones ante los medios, quitando hierro a la estigmatización que supone el hecho de que los bancos españoles deban ser rescatados como Grecia, Irlanda o Portugal. Los fondos provendrán de los tristemente conocidos Fondo Europeo de Estabilización Financiera (EFSF) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Y parece que la banca española no puede ya maquillar por mas tiempo su insolvencia.

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The State of Trade Union Emergency

That exceptional measures should be taken in exceptional situations is pure common sense. And the State of Emergency is a regime that can be declared by the government of a country in special situations. It is a temporary mechanism contemplated in the constitutions of countries in the event that a government determines that an extraordinary situation exists, such as a natural catastrophe, serious disturbance of internal order, foreign war or any other danger considered sufficiently serious, in order to deal with it adequately. A state of emergency usually involves the suspension or restriction of certain fundamental rights, and implies temporariness, until the exceptional situation is regularised. It is also known as a state of alarm, siege or emergency.

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Employment trends in 2012

A continuación os traemos un artículo de una colaboradora que nos ha solicitado publicar algunos de sus artículos en este blog. Sofía Sánchez es una escritora, graduada de Florida International University, con especialización  en escrituras sobre la política, economía y tendencias laborales. Os dejamos con su artículo sobre dichas tendencias en el mundo laboral:

La importancia de quedarse sin trabajo va más allá del evidente shock inicial que supone la pérdida de poderadquisitivo. Expertos en psicología laboral afirman que el estatus de desempleado al que han tenido que verseabocados tantos trabajadores cualificados, provoca un inquietante aumento de casos de depresión. Sin embargo,no hay que perder los nervios ni desanimarse, pues es precisamente ese desánimo el peor enemigo del solicitante. (more…)

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