Salient to Investors: BOE said rising equity markets don’t reflect the underlying economies and underestimates risks in the financial system. Potential threats to the financial system include the re-emergence of some elements of market behavior not seen since before the financial crisis, including a relaxation in some US credit markets of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Scotia Canadian Dividend Fund cut bank holdings by 40 percent from the end of 2011 on concern that lending is slowing as consumers retrench. Fund manager Jason Gibbs at GCIC said there is no question that things are going to slow down and is using the released funds to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Mark Kiesel at Pimco said: US industries tied to housing will grow 4 times as fast as the economy, making them top picks for investors. Housing starts will increase 15 percent a year until at least 2015 Home prices will rise over 5 percent annually as demand recovers from the worst
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Paul Farrell writes: We are at a market top and an economic turning point. Bernanke’s non-stop cheap-and-easy-money printing presses are loved by Wall Street banks but are bad for the rest of America. His reappointment – certain to become Obama’s greatest domestic blunder – so shocked Nassim Taleb
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Prashant Jain at at HDFC Asset Mgmt sees value in India’s biggest lenders on prospects of fewer bad loans that have made them Asia’s worst-performing bank stocks in the past year. Banks account for 29 percent of his HDFC Top 200 Fund. Jain said the worst of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Sheila Bair at Pew Charitable Trusts said US regulators lack the courage to designate non-bank financial companies systemically important and are not doing their job. Bair said regulators cannot even name as systemic those companies in the crisis, like AIG and GE Capital, that were named as systemic – yet we
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Zhu Min at the IMF said the financial market structure did not change very much and we are not safer. Sanford Weill, John Reed, David Komansky and Philip Purcell have said that financial conglomerates could be more valuable and safer if split apart. Amar Bhide at Tufts University says no one can
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Banks that agreed to help troubled borrowers as part of a settlement with regulators over foreclosure misdeeds are spending most of the promised aid on short sales and forgiveness of home-equity loans that allow them to take bad loans off their books. Arthur Wilmarth at George Washington University said banks
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Albert Krespin at Deutsche Bank expects Turkish banking shares to continue their correction in the near-term, and advises switching from banking shares to industrial companies, which offer higher dividends. Dmitry Trembovolsky and Alexey Butylin at Goldman Sachs advised selling Turkish banks last week as earnings will decline and repatriation of money into the US could
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Global investment banks based in Europe and the US are losing market share in emerging economies to smaller domestic competitors. Freeman & Co. said the share of fees for US and Western European banks in Latin America, the Middle East, China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe fell
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