E' possibile che il peggio sia alle spalle per la disoccupazione negli USA? Ne discute il New York Times dopo i dati di ieri.
Vale la pena pagare i cospicui fees che caricano i fondi di private equity agli investitori? L'esperienza
di alcuni fondi pensione non è entusiasmante,,,:
Public funds pay a lot of money to managers of so-called alternative investments like private equity, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds. (...)
These funds generally charge fees totaling 2 percent of the money they manage and then take 20 percent of the profits they generate.(...)
Private equity owes its explosive growth largely to America’s pension funds. Buyout funds raised $200 million in 1980 and $200 billion in 2007. According to Prequin, a financial data provider, public pension funds were the biggest contributors over that period and now have $115.9 billion invested in private equity.
But these investments have not worked out as well as many had hoped. According to data from the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service, the median returns for public pension funds with assets greater than $5 billion were negative 18.8 percent over one year, negative 2.8 percent over three years, and 2.4 percent over five years.
Indeed, research conducted by several university professors challenge the private equity firms’ premise that returns beat the stock market over long periods of time.
Two professors, Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago and Per Strömberg of the Stockholm School of Economics, contend that, after fees, many private equity investments just about match or even trail the returns of the broad stock market between 1980 and 2001.
Additional research by Ludovic Phalippou of the University of Amsterdam and Mr. Gottschalg of the HEC School of Management shows that private equity funds underperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index by 3 percent annually from 1980 to 2003, after accounting for fees.
Sul numero dell'Economist in edicola, Buttonwood analizza i mercati obbligazionari governativi, chiedendosi come mai i tassi a lungo termine siano aumentati nelle ultime settimane. Una curva dei tassi ripida come l'attuale può segnalare un recupero dell'economia più robusto di quello preventivato ma anche l'aspettativa di un ritorno dell'inflazione. In queste settimane si sono addirittura viste delle stranezze come i tassi su obbligazioni bancarie USA e inglesi scendere al di sotto di obbligazioni del Tesoro con la medesima scadenza. La spiegazione è probabilmente legata ai volumi ingenti di obbligazioni emesse e dal desiderio di scambiare obbligazioni a tasso fisso con obbligazioni a tasso variabile. Conclude Buttonwood :
Technicalities aside, the most plausible explanation for the steep yield curve is the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy. On the monetary side the Fed is holding short rates at historically low levels in response of the severity of the crisis. On the fiscal side America's budget deficit has soared to over 10% of GDP, leading to heavy debt issuance. Recent Treasury bond auctions have seen fairly weak demand, forcing yields higher.
This still represents a challenge for markets. One reason why equities have rallied is that their potential returns have seemed attractive relative to government bonds. Now there will be more competition.
Ecco l'aggiornamento al 2 aprile 2010.
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