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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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La Era de los Bancos Centrales

Parece que las piezas del puzzle del New Normal comienzan a encajar. Pero como no podía ser de otra manera al tratarse de una nueva normalidad, el encaje de dichas piezas es hoy por hoy mucho menos estable y geométrico que en el Old Normal. Y lo que hoy puede parecer una parte ya confeccionada del rompecabezas, mañana puede demostrarse de nuevo un caos muy incierto.

La gran diferencia entre esta nueva Era y la anterior es lógicamente el tamaño del balance de todos los bancos centrales de las economías desarrolladas: FED, BoE, BoJ y, en menor medida hasta el momento, BCE. La huída hacia delante que está suponiendo el Quantitative Easing, está determinando el aumento del precio de cotización de prácticamente todos los activos y Mercados directamente relacionados. Y esa realidad es tan contundente como efímera, puesto que la fabricación de dinero a destajo es tan influyente en el precio de los activos como insostenible, debido al cierre del grifo del QE que en algún momento no muy lejano deberá producirse. (more…)

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…)

How does the machinery of the economy work? Video by Ray Dalio

Aquí tenéis el video de 30 minutos que el gurú de la gestión global macro, Ray Dalio (Bridgewater) ha creado para explicar de manera muy clara y didáctica, no sólo la dinámica económica que nos ha llevado hasta la situación actual, sino lo más importante: La hoja de ruta para salir de la gran recesión mediante un “bonito desapalancamiento”.

El video está en inglés (no lo he sabido encontrar aún en español o subtitulado) y está acompañado por unos dibujos animados muy agradables y demostrativos. Además, su ritmo pausado permite una fácil comprensión de todos los conceptos que en él se explican. Probablemente sea una respuesta adecuada o una visión distinta del famoso video “Money as Debt“, que corrió como la pólvora hace algún tiempo. Que lo disfrutéis: (more…)

Recovery and stability are here... eppur si muove!

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It appears that August 2013 is marking the start of the Eurozone’s economic recovery. Peripheral risk premiums are shrinking like raisins, whilst the price of German government bonds is falling (yields rising), mirroring US Treasury bonds. The political class and the establishment The Western media are hailing it as such, whilst keeping their fingers crossed that the prophecy will become a self-fulfilling one.

However, mathematics is stubborn. And so is economics. Despite the faith and the malicious or ignorant opinions of politicians and analysts, as Galileo said: e pur si muove. In other words, Spain’s deficit, its economic recession and its unpayable debt reveal the harsh reality: we are far, very far from achieving growth and regaining solvency. That is why reductions in the risk premium are nothing more than mirages in a desert of recession and deleveraging that we have barely begun to navigate. A temporary and unjustified improvement that is the result of political propaganda and the well-known inefficiency of the markets.  (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 Analysts.

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Hoy leo una noticia en Expansión que prefiero tomármela a risa, pero que en realidad es para echarse a llorar, o mejor, para sacar espuma por la boca de pura indignación. La notícia dice así: «UBS retira sólo un día después su consejo de vender Red Eléctrica». La historia no es más que una muestra (la enésima) de la mediocridad de los análisis de los departamentos de entidades de banca tan altisonantes como la mismísima UBS. Pero lo más triste es que esto es extrapolable a prácticamente toda la banca. (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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