Cash flooded into a dizzying array
of speculative assets, from property and copper to modern art to pu'er tea — and totoaba bladders.
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of a speculative asset, while attempting to limit the downside risk.
Portfolio Strategies: Insured products promise the upside
of a speculative asset, while attempting to limit the downside risk.
I would, therefore, argue that bitcoin is neither a viable medium of exchange nor a viable store of value at the moment, but rather more
of a speculative asset than anything else.
Not exact matches
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said it's a «highly
speculative asset» and «not a stable store
of value.»
With bitcoin supply constrained and increasingly falling short
of demand, instead
of functioning as a currency, bitcoin is a
speculative empty
asset.
But even with these kinds
of returns, the fact remains, a
speculative asset like bitcoin remains prone to seismic price moves in a very short space
of time.
Debt leveraging inflates property prices, creating (6) hopes for capital gains, prompting buyers to take on even more debt in the
speculative hope that rising
asset prices will more than cover the added interest, which is paid out
of capital gains, not out
of current income.
If you want to get rich quicker, it's worth carving out 5 % — 10 %
of your investable
assets and / or reinvesting your risk - free income into
speculative investments that complement your plain vanilla investments each year.
Gold has always been the primary standard by which we measure value, thanks to its continued demand as a currency, store
of value and
speculative asset.
When I employ that strategy it pushes me to work on building my total available
assets so I can expose more dollars to the
speculative asset class and participate in the proliferation
of the bitcoin rally.
The custom target - date funds allocated «a wildly excessive percentage
of assets to
speculative asset classes such as natural resources, emerging market stocks, emerging market bonds, and real estate limited partnerships,» the complaint against Fujitsu stated.
I commented in Money Sense Magazine in May
of last year that this
asset class should be considered part
of an investor's total portfolio where alternative investments including commodities,
speculative ventures, derivatives, early stage companies, etc. should be no more that 5 to 10 %
of the investor's portfolio.
Behind Germany and ahead
of some
of the oil producers, it runs the largest current account surplus in the world, which means that it is exporting its excess savings in a world that has nowhere to put the money, and so the world must respond either with
speculative asset bubbles, unproductive investment, debt - fueled consumption binges or unemployment.
Among the likely changes to Dodd - Frank: raising the threshold for tougher oversight from the current $ 50 billion in
assets to $ 250 billion; exempting small banks from the so - called Volcker rule, which currently bars them from
speculative trading; reducing the amount
of financial reporting, particularly racial and income data on mortgage holders; lowering the frequency
of regulatory exams; and easing the conditions
of stress tests.
Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 %
of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result
of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various
speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.
The presale is being looked up as a
speculative launch that could lead to a rise in
asset value
of Ethereum.
The prevailing overvalued, overbought, and overbullish combination
of conditions has historically been associated with subsequent market returns below Treasury bill yields, so while we hold about 1 %
of assets in call options as a modest
speculative exposure to market fluctuations, a larger exposure closer to 2 % continues to await a short - term pullback sufficient to «clear» that overbought condition.
Trading in binary options is highly
speculative, involves an outstanding risk
of loss and is not suitable for everyone but only for those investors who: (a) understand and are willing to assume the economic, legal and other risks involved; (b) are financially able to assume the loss
of their total investment; and (c) have the knowledge to understand binary options trading and the underlying
assets.
These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more
of bond
assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level
of BB (considered
speculative for taxable bonds) and below.
Indeed, because all
of this yield seeking has driven a persistent uptrend in
speculative assets in recent years, investors seem to believe that «QE just makes prices go up» in a way that ensures a permanent future
of diagonally escalating prices.
Last month the European Central Bank vice president said Bitcoin was a «
speculative asset» where investors were «taking that risk
of buying at such high prices».
After all, the proverbial «boxes» have been ticked; permitting, sufficient infrastructure, customer base, real producing
assets (as opposed to highly
speculative land with evidence
of graphite), revenue, and operating cash flow.
As noted above, if we can clear that overbought condition without a measurable deterioration in market internals, we remain willing to accept a moderate
speculative exposure to market fluctuations (in practice, roughly 2 %
of assets in call options).
In the Strategic Growth Fund, that puts us in the position
of being fully hedged, but with a small
speculative call option position that I would expect to increase toward 2 %
of assets if the market pulls back somewhat further without a significant deterioration in market internals.
ONLY SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS WHO UNDERSTAND THE RISKS
OF SPECULATIVE INVESTING IN NEW
ASSET CLASSES AND HAVE CONSULTED THEIR OWN LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ADVISERS MAY PARTICIPATE ON COINAZURE.
Thus persisted what we earlier dubbed the Great Disconnect between the real world
of goods and services and the
speculative world
of financial
assets.
They can not be expected to pursue
speculative enquiries about the possible existence
of offshore
assets of which they have no reason to have any knowledge.
Which means you really want to mix the discipline
of asset allocation with the
speculative behavior
of market timing, or trying to predict the market's movements.
It also means that we need to watch the credit cycle, and
speculative activity to get a sense
of how committed the hot money is to risk
assets.
Ultimately, the problem is simply one
of overpriced
assets: they bought during a
speculative bubble and are now unable to refinance out as prices return to more appropriate levels.
Personally, I'm not a huge fan
of gold as an
asset class for a couple
of reasons (it's negative - yielding, and primarily a
speculative -LSB-...]
Gold is often viewed as a safe haven
asset as it has preserved its value in real terms through hundreds
of years
of history, but this leads to its market price often becoming overly
speculative at times when people are worried about inflation which can cause its spot price to fluctuate wildly.
One strategy might be to maintain a diversified portfolio using the principles
of correct
asset allocation, while at the same time opening another, more
speculative account.
(Hint: markets that have a high level
of transactions relative to the underlying
asset value have a lot
of speculative «noise traders.»)
Warrants may be considered more
speculative than certain other types
of investments in that they do not entitle a holder to dividends or voting rights with respect to the underlying securities that may be purchased nor do they represent any rights in the
assets of the issuing company.
They are high risk
speculative investments which are really just bets or gambles on the movement
of asset prices.
A hedge fund is a scheme designed to help hedge fund managers obtain billion dollar paydays through the use
of leverage to make
speculative bets on all manner
of assets.
other sources
of liquidity, including the issuer's ability to sell
assets to raise cash The list below provides the Component Scores
of Moody's
Speculative - Grade Liquidity Ratings: SGL Ratings & Component Score List At 1,000 defaults, Moody's recoveries database highlights the importance
of debt structure and the normalcy
of the latest default cycle: Moody's Ultimate Recovery Database
Investors in Ditech Networks (NASDAQ: DITC — News) are not venture capitalists and did not sign up for this type
of speculative investing with such a large portion
of the Company's
assets.
A succession
of asset bubbles has formed in China, caused by a torrent
of speculative money sloshing from stocks to bonds to commodities.
As abstract representations
of physical space,
asset - backed securities (such as home mortgages), certain futures contracts (think
of agricultural futures like grains and meats), and other derivative products all exist as
speculative representations
of space that indeed transform our material reality.
Even Brazil's potential reserves (those more
speculative assets that have at least a 50 % chance
of being proven) are quite small against this backdrop.
As we've discussed concerning the money secrets
of the wealthy, those in the know generally don't risk their safe
assets on
speculative investments.
While decentralised digital currencies have served as an excellent
speculative asset, the same can not be said for their use as a medium
of exchange, store
of value or unit
of account.
With its funds, Grayscale aims to provide access to certain crypto
assets — many
of which have soared to spectacular,
speculative heights in recent months — to wealthy individuals (that is, accredited investors, or people who have made $ 200,000 annually for the two most recent years or who have a net worth exceeding $ 1 million).
It will just be used as a
speculative asset and store
of value.
«We're fresh off a
speculative bubble across crypto
assets, so true valuations won't make much sense right now,» Petar Zivkovski, COO
of leveraged cryptocurrency trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk.
SEOUL (Reuters)-- South Korea said on Wednesday it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading as global regulators worried about a bubble, with Australia's central bank chief warning
of a «
speculative mania» that has seen the digital
asset making rip - roaring gains.
All digital
assets are in free fall as global regulators are criticizing
speculative aspects
of the market and tightening the approach towards the industry.