They should also get cheaper financing on
their very safe assets the coming years.
One way to interpret this is that the market has a high demand for safe assets and so the central banks, by buying bonds with reserves, increase the supply of
very safe assets, ie.
If you need the money in a shorter time period (ie 6 months) then you should invest it in
a very safe asset class such as cash (ie high interest savings account).
Not exact matches
That's because banks are legally required to have a foundation of
very safe liquid
assets, known as Tier 1 capital.
At first glance, this looks like
very bad news for a steelmaker like ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT), which has only 8 % of its steelmaking
assets located within the U.S. and
safe from those trade protections.
Mixing cash with stocks is a barbell portfolio strategy with a
very safe short - term capital preservation
asset in one bucket and much riskier
assets in another.
It is
very early to say that ICOs are reliable investments; after all as Vitalik Buterin (CEO Ethereum) once said cryptocurrencies are an extremely volatile and unregulated
asset class and traditional markets are always
safer when it comes to serious investments.
So while cash may feel
safe in the short term, there is a
very real risk to your long - term wealth by limiting your investments to the
assets that feel the
safest.
Of course that risk exists with stocks too, but if history is any guide, there is the
very real risk that investing only in
assets that feel
safe in the short run will result in insufficient wealth to meet long - term goals like a comfortable retirement.
Investors are looking for
safe assets, and oil companies, both large and small, that represent
very secure holdings.
A good credit history is a
very important and valuable
asset that all consumers need to keep
safe.
As the
very least a muppet should take away from Taleb's works that negative Black Swans are significantly more prevalent than you may imagine and your allocation to «
safer»
assets classes should be significantly greater than you think.
I also want them to buy - and - hold (dirty words) because they aren't
very good at market timing, and also have enough in
safe assets to lower the downside of returns to a level that does not panic them.
One should also consider the leverage potential implied — EIIB could almost quadruple its B / S, still be considered a
very safe bank (with a near 20 % Equity / Total
Assets Ratio) and presumably achieve a radical transformation of its P&L and Return on Equity.
They are not so high when you compare the returns on equities to the returns on
safe assets like bonds, which are also
very low, but there are potential dangers there.
I like too that Penn Mutual invests their
assets very conservatively to keep policy holders
safe.
Whole life insurance also offers a diversified and (relative to equity markets)
very safe investment and retirement savings vehicle for people who already have a lot of
assets in traditional places such as a 401k and Roth IRA.
As long as I am sailing with generalities, I think it's
safe to say that a good manager is a
very valuable
asset.
For those reasons, I prefer to look over the longer - term (e.g. weekly as above) behavior of the
safe haven
asset candidates during market drawdowns rather than the
very short - term reactions.