Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

Lord Mervyn King, Governor of Bank Of England crisply summed up the dilemma of the Governments across the globe when he said that… global financial institutions are global in their life, but national in their death. Each nation has to take steps to ensure that failure of foreign institutions does not disrupt its domestic markets.
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Diversify. That was the mantra investors heard in recent years. Investing in a range of assets was supposed to improve overall returns as these were uncorrelated bets.
This year world stock markets lost almost $ 30,000 bn in value. Oil prices fell by two-thirds. House prices dropped. Bonds – except for government [...]