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Inflation concerns around the world are forcing investors to reexamine their investment portfolios. And for good reason. While inflation is a natural occurrence in any economy, it can also eat away at your investment returns if you’re not careful. This is why many investors are taking steps to hedge against inflation. What is inflation? In basic terms, inflation occurs when the prices of goods and services continue to rise. This can cause a decrease in the value of currency. A quick look at how prices have increased over the last year shows that investors are right to have concerns. Q3 2022 he...
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Inflation is back, and that’s usually depicted as good for gold. But is the yellow metal still a hedge against inflation, or has something changed? Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Inflation Makes A ComebackInflation has returned. This is partly understandable. After all, during the Covid recession , consumers and businesses accumulated a lot of cash as their spending was reduced, while revenues were sustained by money transfers from the government. These funds are now entering the economy, which makes demand grow much faster than supply, thus boosting prices. After some time, ...
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I recently saw a chart from AEI, which broke down inflation into a few components between 1997 and 2017. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Price Changes Between 1997 And 2017You can see that prices increased on average by 55.60% between 1997 and 2017. Source: AEI This picture provides an interesting perspective, because not every item you would buy actually increased at the pace of inflation that is widely quoted. Certain items that are more labor intensive, which cannot be easily automated ended up increasing much faster than the pace of inflation. Those include healthcare, edu...
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First Eagle Investment Management’s market overview for the fourth quarter ended December 2020, discussing gold as a potential hedge. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Key Takeaways Though 2020 was a generationally poor period for value indexes relative to growth, hopes that the worst of the Covid-19 recession was behind us helped fuel a fourth quarter rebound in the mature, physical components of the economy most directly impacted by pandemic lockdowns.While the massive monetary policy response to the onset of Covid-19 appears to have cushioned the pandemic’s economic impact, i...
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2021 might bring a real estate crash, but analyzing the last crash of 2009 and what the FED is doing, it is more likely we see inflation increasing real estate prices rather than collapsing them.[reit]Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreThe real estate market is in the following situation:undersupply in more than 50% of places all over the wordsbe there!a differentiation in demand for various real estate propertiesExtremely low interest rates that make it cheap to buy and take a mortgageInflation that will likely push prices higher because the FED is printing so muchThe key to inve...
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