Hard global assets, is the way to go.
Not exact matches
«The longer rates are low, the
harder it will be to raise them and the more painful that raise will be,» says Eric Lascelles, RBC
Global Asset Management's chief economist.
In terms of both
hard and soft
assets we have all the makings of a great brand on the
global stage, yet we have not defined ourselves beyond resources and general reliability.
I have been, and still am, a gold and
hard assets investor to, number one, hedge against
global monetary inflation and fiat currency devaluation and, number two, leverage rising demand for the metal in an environment of low market confidence.
Because as investors if you're looking at this current contemporary
global macroeconomic backdrop from the 10 - 12 year perspective, I find it with the typical disclosure here that I'm not able to see with a perfect crystal ball or anything but it's
hard to believe that traditional
assets, that
global equities, will be thriving in this environment just from the simple perspective of how overstretched they are from any reasonable measure of valuation.
As we're now in the ninth year of the current cycle, we think investors should consider the mixed nature of incoming data such as China's economic stimulus,
global liquidity conditions, a US «
hard data» letdown and escalating
asset class valuations.
These opportunities include commercial real estate in
global gateway cities, niche
hard assets and diversified fund opportunities delivered by carefully selected sector experts.
Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that
global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively
hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical
assets.
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Take a look at this Morningstar graph for Van Eck
Global Hard Assets:
It's
hard to say whether this is a good return or not given I don't know what
asset class they are investing in — for example, this would be a poor payoff for the risk assumed when investing in
global equities.
Realty shares took it on the chin so
hard during the crash late 2008 into 2009 that investors savvy enough to buy distressed
assets at the bottom saw triple digit gains not likely to be seen again until the next crash (see top ETF performers in
global and sector ETFs from the 2009 bottom).
Global Digital
Asset Exchange (GDAX), a trading platform operated by Coinbase, has also made a statement clarifying its stance on the recent Ethereum
hard fork.
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hard drive destruction, IT
asset disposition, remarketing, computer equipment refurbishing and
asset recovery.Our centrally managed process for secure IT disposition is engineered to be fully transparent every step of the way.