Sentences with phrase «half risk assets»

Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the US dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for higher risk assets such as stocks.

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

And if that continues for the next couple of months, it's a green - light for Japanese risk assets,» he added.

He singled out specifically what he believes to be the most important factor behind the returns in risk assets, namely the stock market:

The divergence was years in the making, with the breakdown starting in 2013 due to expectations of monetary tightening which dampened the appetite for risk assets like commodities.

Correlations across risk assets should have risen.

This has significant implications for the US dollar and risk assets.

The result: «I see a real lose - lose setup for risk assets,» Gundlach said.

«This is a high - risk asset class; nobody should invest in this with money that they can't afford to lose.»

The recent past was great for long - only risk assets, but hedge funds provide unique advantages for investors.

The firm co-founded by Blair Effron and Robert Pruzan advised Express Scripts in its sale to Cigna and Thomson Reuters in the $ 17 billion sale of the majority of its financial and risk assets to Blackstone.

Low interest rates have given a huge incentive to shift out of low - risk assets into stocks and corporate bonds in search of higher returns.

The story is similar elsewhere, leaving less room for the upside growth surprises that powered global risk assets in 2017.

Various considerations offer caution about getting too short, including the potential resurgence of risk asset volatility as market yields rise and / or as Washington events evolve — ranging from the Mueller investigation to trade tariffs.

«Risk assets might begin to worry less.»

If dealer inventories take the hit, risk assets get crushed and people move into Treasuries.

«We see three reasons why risk assets should worry less,» Goldman economists Charles Himmelberg and James Weldon wrote in a note Thursday.

For years, market participants got used to the concept a Bernanke or Yellen put, i.e., a sort of implicit understanding that the former Fed chairs would act to put a floor under risk assets by easing further if necessary.

Gold: We typically see commodities outperform stocks and other risk assets in the late stages of a business cycle.

Higher proportion of funds focused in higher risk assets, such as shares for the potential of higher returns

We have upgraded U.S. Treasurys and fixed income overall to neutral, and remain cautious on risk assets pending the U.K. vote.

It is notable that the WLI, which is sensitive to the prices of risk assets that have been supported by massive worldwide liquidity injections, has hardly been swayed from its recessionary trajectory.

Easy monetary conditions should keep yields compressed in the near term and support risk assets, including European credit and equities.

As for liquidity, having 5 - 10 % in low risk assets is the way to go.

U.S. military action against North Korea and / or an accidental clash in the South China Sea would deal a blow to the relationship, in our view, and hurt risk assets.

As a retiree, it's NOT wise to allocate more money to risk assets.

And did that do anything in the first place, other than to boost risk assets and «encourage» policymakers in Congress to spend at Fed - influenced low interest rates?

As we look back on 2017, it will likely be remembered as an exceptional year for many investors, specifically those who owned equities and other risk assets.

Are you and they willing to risk those assets as equity investment in a startup?

But we believe a moderate rise in the dollar is more likely, and the support for profit margins from better wages, spending and nominal growth reinforces our broadly positive view on risk assets and equities in particular.

Commodities also followed risk assets higher, even gold, and coupled with the weakness in European and Asian, one might wonder how, and when the sharp performance gap will close.

Higher - yielding risk assets such as local emerging market (EM) bonds look relatively attractive.

For example, the fund might only allocate 5 percent of its investment - portfolio to high - risk assets.

We could see moderate gains in risk assets, with Macron's victory largely priced in after his first - round win.

If, on the margin, liquidity begins to decline in 2018 resulting from QT, fed rate hikes and other central banks ending their QE programs, there is a reasonably high probability that risk assets will suffer.

The news triggered another round of buying after yesterday's rally in equities and other risk assets, with the Japanese Yen also selling off in a sign of a more bullish investor sentiment.

The assumption that you can create a portfolio of risk assets that will have steady returns year in and year out is what causes so many problems for many professional and individual investors alike.

A growth agenda may be good for equities, but the untethering of the monetary policy experiment may not be good for equities, and there may be some ambiguity as to what this means for risk assets and portfolios.

That should cause risk assets to re-price lower and encourage capital flows to fixed income.

We remain constructive on risk assets, but we are also managing portfolios by incorporating asset classes that both diversify and carry well within an ETF portfolio construct.

Bonds are considered a low risk asset, but generally pay a relatively low return compared to stocks.

Despite the move, the Aussie, and the also rallying Canadian Dollar are still well below the pre-crash highs, and as they have led the market during the correction, we still remain defensive towards risk assets here.

We see the economic expansion — and the outperformance of risk assets — having more room to run.

Regardless of bitcoin's supposedly safe - haven status, right now it's acting like a risk asset — a risk asset with a lot more beta.

Risk assets must offer higher rates in return to be held.

Should the Aussie and the Canadian Dollar pick up some bullish momentum, we could be in for a more durable rally in equities too, as they have been leading risk assets in recent weeks.

But we believe the above - trend level of growth should be positive for risk assets, and it's helping companies deliver on earnings.

This post is a reminder to myself and to all of you that we can and will lose money if we invest in risk assets for a long enough period of time.

This year was a near - perfect one for risk assets, and 2017 will be a hard act to follow.

The market implications: A slower expected pace of Fed tightening is pausing the dollar's rise, and this bodes well for risk assets and emerging markets in particular.