The person accountable for worldwide allotment for a big pension fund had been inquired by the board of directors in the April of year 2008 for an evaluation on whether she thinks the dollar would appreciate or devalue over the successive five to ten years. She has heard mainly negative views about course of the dollar over the long term, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's idea the Gulf States, and others, should de-link from the U.S. dollar as a way to check inflationary pressures. Presently, the fund is 60% in dollar-based assets and 40% in foreign marketplaces.
The dollar's sharp decline against a comprehensive array of currencies, central banks diversifying reserves away from dollars, and some OPEC members invoicing petroleum -sales monies in other than dollars are deterring news. She consider whether to amplify the foreign weighting and, because the dollar has overshot its "long-term value," whether it's now more likely to appreciate than depreciate, and finally whether the fund should use the recent dollar pessimism as the opportunity to take profits on its foreign places and raise the weighting on the now comparatively inexpensive U.S. securities.
PUBLICATION DATE: August 18, 2008 PRODUCT #: UV1110-PDF-ENG
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