OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – FEBRUARY – WHY GOLD WILL CONTINUE ITS BULL RUN
02-Feb-2011
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By Liu-Yue Lam
An eternal optimist, Liu-Yue built two social enterprises to help make the world a better place. Liu-Yue co-founded Oxstones Investment Club a searchable content platform and business tools for knowledge sharing and financial education. Oxstones.com also provides investors with direct access to U.S. commercial real estate opportunities and other alternative investments. In addition, Liu-Yue also co-founded Cute Brands a cause-oriented character brand management and brand licensing company that creates social awareness on global issues and societal challenges through character creations. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Liu-Yue worked as an Executive Associate at M&T Bank in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group where he worked with senior management on multiple bank-wide risk management projects. He also had a dual role as a commercial banker advising UHNWIs and family offices on investments, credit, and banking needs while focused on residential CRE, infrastructure development, and affordable housing projects. Prior to M&T, he held a number of positions in Latin American equities and bonds investment groups at SBC Warburg Dillon Read (Swiss Bank), OFFITBANK (the wealth management division of Wachovia Bank), and in small cap equities at Steinberg Priest Capital Management (family office). Liu-Yue has an MBA specializing in investment management and strategy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Stern School of Business at NYU. He also completed graduate studies in international management at the University of Oxford, Trinity College.
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By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, CEO, & Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management,
Recent studies have shown that current investments in gold as an asset class are still heavily underinvested as a percentage of an investor’s overall portfolio (less than 5% of Americans own gold).
The global liquidity released by the Fed and the Japanese central banks are igniting high inflation around the world as seen in commodity prices. The new economic strategy for many in G-8 is competitive devaluation, but this will likely spark trade wars and a period of anti-globalization. Gold still presents a terrific opportunity to diversify your overall portfolio and protect yourself from inflation and currency wars.
In general, I personally do not like to invest in gold because it is a non-yielding asset, which means it does not provide any returns other than price appreciation. There are also high costs to holding physical gold. However, in recent years the introductions of Gold ETFs have made investing in gold much easier and much more cost effective. Please check out our ETF list section for Gold ETFs. My favorites are GLD and PHYS.
https://oxstones.com/stock-lists/
A Case for Gold Investing and Gold Catalysts
Emerging Market Central Banks Buying Gold
In the past decade, central banks were net sellers of gold. However, in recent years central bank selling has stopped, which have provided additional support for gold prices. In 2010, central banks became net buyers of gold for the first time since the 1980s. That trend will only accelerate as central banks across emerging market economies continue to diversify their holdings out of dollars and Euros and into gold and other hard assets.
Global Competitive Devaluations and Sovereign Debt Crisis
Fiat currency debasement by G-8 countries and euro debt crisis will likely continue to act as major catalysts for further gold price appreciation. The sovereign debt crisis in Europe is not over. Many countries will likely need to restructure or default on their debts in the years to come. The sovereign debt crisis in the U.S. is still many years away. You can expect to see even more quantitative easing – Part III, IV, V in the USA, UK, Japan, and other developed world economies; who are all caught in the debt trap. For many that is their only option left.
Global Liquidity and Rising Inflation Expectations
With interest rates rising, investors are only now turning their attention to the expectations for much higher inflation in the near term horizon. This is another catalyst for gold prices. Gold has been a stable storage of value for over a thousand years. The peak inflation adjusted price of gold in 1980 was $2,100 to $2,300. I think gold prices will likely march higher to around $1,500-$2,000 in the next 18-24 months.
Negative Real Rates
Current interest rates are still extremely low. In fact many countries still have negative real rates. As long as interest rates remain in negative in real terms I believe we can expect gold prices to continue to march significantly higher. With the majority of leading developed economies caught in insurmountable debt traps I don’t expect them to raise interest rates anytime soon. Even many emerging market countries have decided to accept the consequences of higher inflation and keep liquidity flowing rather than deal with social unrest from any economic disruptions.
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