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Category: Asesoramiento patrimonial para deportistas y artistas

Where wisdom is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Muchos empleados de banca asean sus consciencias de lo ocurrido con las preferentes y demás productos tóxicos, proclamando su ignorancia respecto a los peligros intrínsecos que conllevaban esas inversiones que colocaron a diestro y siniestro. También muchos se escudan diciendo que la responsabilidad era de sus jefes, y que ellos eran sólo unos mandados que cumplían órdenes de vender indiscriminadamente productos cuyos riesgos se ocultaron o se ignoraban. Y la excusa de la ignorancia de los riesgos que esos productos tenían, la esgrimen en mayor o menor medida en toda la escala jerárquica de la banca, desde el gestor de banca privada hasta el empleado de banca comercial, pasando por el director de oficina. Pero ni la jerarquía en la responsabilidad ni la ignorancia eximen de culpa a ninguno de ellos, como veremos más adelante. (more…)

Cuidado con los Mercados Desarrollados

La fiesta sigue. Después de los rallys de bolsas americanas y europeas -especialmente la española- parece que la mayoría de inversores va a volver a tropezar con la piedra de siempre. Cuándo? No se puede precisar, pero lo que es seguro es que la piedra está ahí y los inversores, ebrios de tanta subida, corren alocados como pollos sin cabeza. ¿Y cuál es la piedra en la que van a tropezar muchos? Pues lógicamente unas valoraciones de bolsas desarrolladas que para nada son ya baratas, por no decir que empiezan a estar ya caras. Sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que los beneficios empresariales están en máximos y los tipos de interés en mínimos, lo cual inevitablemente nos acerca a su fin e inicio del ciclo inverso.

Además debemos distinguir entre bolsa desarrollada europea y americana: El mercado europeo se enfrenta a una deflación persistente, quizá con recorrido mayor si el BCE se ve obligado a tomar medidas extraordinarias al estilo de las tomadas por la FED en estos últimos semestres. Pero con nubarrones de solvencia y de recesión en la periferia que no le van a sentar nada bien a sus bolsas. Es cierto que la bolsa alemana cotiza a precios más razonables que la española, pero a pesar de sus esfuerzos para blindarse, no debemos olvidar que todavía vamos en el mismo barco, centroeuropeos, norteuropeos y periféricos del sur. Y eso puede ser una fuente de contagio de conflictos en las bolsas europeas, aunque lógicamente la peor parte se la llevarán las del sur, por estar en el epicentro de los problemas financieros por ende cotizando a casi 20 años de beneficios. (more…)

Resolving the dilemma of whether or not to go against the market.

«If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the years, it’s that you shouldn’t go against the market«That is the blunt remark made a few days ago by a senior executive at a national bank to one of our clients. In fact, it is a phrase we have heard on many other occasions from various bank employees, and even from some savers, over the nearly three decades that we have been investing our money and that of our clients.

The question we are going to try to settle once and for all is whether it is true that, in the long run, we must stand up to Mr Market, or whether, on the contrary, we should let our investments ride out the ups and downs of the markets. And the answer may come as a surprise to more than a few: It depends on whether we are bankers or investors. Let us explain. (more…)

If you win the Christmas Lottery jackpot…

Estamos en épocas en las que millones de personas sueñan en la posibilidad de que la Lotería de Navidad les haga ricos. La creencia habitual es que una vez sucedido el milagro, los problemas les desaparecerán para siempre, y la felicidad será la norma hasta el fin de sus días. Pero todo dependerá de la actitud y las decisiones que tomen los agraciados a partir del momento en el que los Niños de San Ildefonso canten sus números. No tanto de la cantidad de dinero que suponga el premio, sino de la forma en la que decidan gestionar esa riqueza súbita.

Hace ya 5 años que publicamos un artículo titulado «Jurassic Park«, también por estas fechas navideñas, que «la coexistencia de una escasa capacidad para generar riqueza y una fortuna súbita, será en casi todos los casos una unión contranatura que buscará su reequilibrio». Es decir, que la unión de un montón de dinero caído del cielo, con personas que no han sido capaces de generarlo con su esfuerzo, suele durar pocos años, lamentablemente.

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What is an Outpost Family Office?

The concept is new and meets a logical and increasingly common need in a globalised world. It is common knowledge that Family Offices are companies or groups of professionals that are essentially dedicated to the management and control of the assets of one or several families, as well as to attending to all aspects that may affect these family groups, such as taxation, legal advice or assistance in family logistics and concierge services (concierging), among others. But the new figure that has appeared for the users of a Family Office (whether they are Clients of a Multi-Family Office, or owners of a Single-Family Office), is that of the Outpost FO, or global support network for a Family Office.  (more…)

Old Money and New Money

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A distinction must be made between two clearly differentiated types of estates: Estates that have been created by a single generation, and which are passed on to one or two subsequent generations at the most, since they die out along the way due to their smaller size and the usual dilapidation by the recipients of inheritances. And the large estates that are passed on from generation to generation, impersonally and in large family groups over many, many years. We call the former New Money and the second Old Money. (more…)

A question of priorities

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We are now in a phase of accommodation to chaos. The world turned upside down that summer of 2007 (I would even say that it began to do so after the 9/11 attacks on the WTC in 2001), and we have gone through a convulsive five years like few others, like very few others. And now it seems that we have become accustomed to the nonsense: to see the markets rise when the US unemployment figures worsen, because they are confident that this will mean the continuation of the infinite printing of money. Or to see bond yields fall when the FED insinuates that things are getting better and it will soon be able to take off the life support (QE) to the economy. Not to mention countless other absurd and unheard-of reactions and correlations. (more…)

The Cyprus Experiment: The euro is quietly falling apart.

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The dreaded abolition is here de facto the free movement of money between Eurozone countries. And it has happened as always, quietly, behind closed doors, and in the country of Mediterranean soda experiments: Cyprus. The first case to come to the New York Times forum It was Marios Loucaides, a Cypriot businessman who had the audacity to try to buy a flat in neighbouring Athens a few weeks ago.

Don’t think this was some massive purchase or a deal worth millions of euros – no. It was simply a matter of buying a modest flat for €170,000. Mr Loucaides agreed with the Athenian owner that he would transfer the amount upon his return to Cyprus, something that should be perfectly normal and routine between EU countries sharing a currency in the much-vaunted Eurozone. But no. The money could not leave the country after endless obstacles, and the sale fell through. The Athenian owner will have to find a buyer with real money – that is, euros, not Cypriot currency.

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En Chipre no se han confiscado los fondos de inversión, sólo los depósitos.

A nadie se le debería escapar que lo ocurrido en Chipre puede ser el camino a seguir en el resto de la periferia, y por tanto deberíamos interesarnos muy mucho por los detalles (residencia preferida del diablo) de ese corralito/confiscación. Una de las preocupaciones, obsesiones más bien diría yo, que deberían tener los inversores periféricos en estos momentos, es la de saber si se han afectado en Chipre todos los saldos depositados en los bancos, o por el contrario se ha confiscado solamente el dinero (un porcentaje real aún por calcular) que ha entrado efectivamente en sus balances. (more…)

Should I invest from Spain or from Luxembourg?

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For many investors this has been the big dilemma since the European periphery began to collapse financially. When the insolvency of Spanish banks came through the door, the more prudent investors naturally jumped out of the window... and mostly in the direction of Luxembourg. The fact is that this small Duchy has been the Wall Street of the Eurozone for several decades now. London and its City remain a gigantic pseudo-European financial centre, but for the purposes of fiscal transparency, affinity with Brussels and its single currency, Luxembourg has become much more “Eurozone friendly“. (more…)

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