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Banca española: Rescate o 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 perversion of counselling

First of all, we must tell you that the subject we are going to deal with today is complex and may offend some professional sensibilities. But that is not our intention at all, but rather our interest is focused on clarifying a situation that is currently generating a lot of confusion and, more importantly, is damaging families with a certain amount of wealth. Both large fortunes and small savers. We will therefore discuss, for example, Santander's convertible bonds, the recent inflammatory statements by Greg Smith (ex-Goldman Sachs), the types of assets that a properly diversified wealth should contain, the Spanish and Luxembourg regulators, banking, EAFIs, Family Office, or how to distinguish between a perverse advice and a perverse advice. comme il faut. We apologise for the length of the post, but we have chosen to publish it in its entirety so as not to lose the thread in the middle of the reflections that follow. (more…)

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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Customer Risk: Cause or excuse for bad management?

This week I came across an article published in FundsPeople titled «Client risk in private banking management«. These are obviously arguments put forward by bankers and former private bankers, which already distorts considerably the reality of what wealth management in general and financial investment in particular should be, as we said back in 2008 in «...".«The unbearable lightness of management»(private banking). We advance this warning because the FundsPeople article only deals with the management of bank investments, i.e. money invested in bank investment products, shares handpicked by the bankers and ex-bankers on duty and other investment funds listed in the bank's sales catalogue. We want to make it clear that there is a fundamental deviation from the way we should treat families' money, which should include investments in unlisted companies (private equity), real estate investments and other assets in which, in order to invest, the money must come out of the bank's account. Obviously, private banks do without such investments, as their mission is to keep their clients' money in the bank that generates their income at the end of the month.

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Corralito 2.0

Just a few days before it was announced the news In the wake of Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's cancer, a new "corralito" is sweeping the South American country. Illegal outflows of US dollars from Argentina have been a constant in 2011, reaching 20-year highs. According to the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA), this year will end with approximately 24 billion dollars in outflows. The volume is also increasing every quarter, which is why the government of Kirchner's widow has taken certain measures that are reminiscent of the corralito that occurred a decade ago. (more…)

Some central banks are preparing for an exit from the euro.

«Some central banks in Europe are beginning to assess contingency plans for the possibility that some countries may leave the euro area or that the monetary union may collapse completely».» This is the headline of the article published today in Expansión, which translates the original published By David Enrich, Deborah Ball, Alistair MacDonald and Francesco Guerrera on the front page of the Wall Street Journal online. Here is the full text, because it is not to be missed, in this countdown to the re-founding or collapse of the Eurozone. And don't miss the commentary and the graph we have added at the end of the article: (more…)

La Caixa y el Estado como ejemplos de desesperación.

Ya sé que no es una novedad, pero no me resisto a denunciar públicamente determinada publicidad que está inundando los medios últimamente, y que me resulta especialmente vomitiva, reprochable, inmoral, peligrosa, vil, infame y qué se yo cuantos adjetivos más podría encontrar. No sólo se trata de publicidad engañosa, como tantas otras, sino que ésta además falsea la cruda realidad y trabuca a los ahorradores en un tema tan delicado, tan sagrado como el dinero de sus Familias. (more…)

La Volatilidad no deja ver el Bosque

Preservar en tiempos revueltos no es el título del culebrón del verano sino la necesidad imperiosa de todos los gestores del patrimonio propio. También es una de las premisas de algunos gestores de patrimonio ajeno, pero éstos lamentablemente se suelen preocupar más por retener a sus sufridos clientes comercialmente reduciéndoles la volatilidad, que por preservar su patrimonio y hacerlo progresar adecuadamente a largo plazo. Desgraciadamente a muchos gestores de lo ajeno les interesa más el pan para hoy (el suyo) y obvian el hambre para mañana (el de sus clientes y también el suyo) de forma miope. Aquí reabriríamos el viejo debate de si sólo se debe confiar el dinero en asesores que hayan sabido generar su propia fortuna y que co-inviertan con sus Clientes, o si bastaría cualquier comisionista independiente con la formación téctica suficiente. Pero esa sería una discusión digna de otro artículo. (more…)

European debt is more debt than others

¿Nunca os habéis preguntado por qué la deuda soberana de la periferia europea se tensiona más y su prima de riesgo crece con mayor rapidez que la de países tanto o más endeudados como Japón o EE.UU.? ¿Por qué motivo se especula tanto sobre la deuda soberana de los PIIGS? ¿Cuál es la razón por la que se aboca vertiginosamente a esas economías PIIGS al default o reestructuración inevitable mientras otros países super endeudados mantienen a raya la prima de riesgo que los mercados les exigen?

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John Mauldin's predictions for the second half of 2011

Está claro que en los tiempos que corren, predecir lo que va a ocurrir en la segunda mitad del año es cuando menos arriesgado. Pero a pesar de ello, no deja de ser nuestra obligación como asesores de patrimonio, como family office en definitiva. Leer o escuchar las visiones macro de tipos como John Mauldin o Ray Dalio, sin duda arrojan luz en este mar de tinieblas financiero. La experiencia y el hecho de haber ya toreado en casi todas las plazas, añaden también galones a la interpretación del pasado, presente y futuro del mundo de las finanzas y las inversiones. (more…)

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