The Only Pension Fund To Survive – Physical Gold…”$400 TRILLION PENSION GAP”
BY EGON VON GREYERZ
TheDailyCoin.org
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
There are probabilities in markets and there are certainties. It is very probable that investors will lose a major part of their assets held in stocks, bonds and property over the next 5-7 years. It is also probable that they will lose most of their money held in banks, either by bank failure or currency debasement.
WHO BUYS A BOND THAT WILL GO TO ZERO?
What is not probable, but absolutely certain, is that investors who buy the new Austrian 100-year bond yielding 2.1% are going to lose all their money. Firstly, you wonder who actually buys these bonds. No individual investing his own money would ever buy a 100-year paper yielding 2% at a historical top of bond markets and bottom of rates.
The buyers are of course institutions who manage other people’s money. These will be the likes of pension fund managers who will be elated to achieve a 2% yield against negative short yields and not much above zero for anything else. These managers will hope to be long gone before anyone finds out the disastrous decision they have taken with pensioners’ money.
But the danger for them is that the bond will be worthless long before the 100 years are up. It could happen within five years.
There are a number of factors that will guarantee the demise of these bonds:
Interest rates are at a 5,000-year low and can only go up
Inflation will surge leading to hyperinflation
Sovereign states are bankrupt and will default
The Euro will go to zero not over 100 years but in the next 5-7
But pension fund managers will not be blamed for their catastrophic performance. No conventional investment manager could ever have forecast the events I am predicting above. (They are not that smart). Thus, they are totally protected, in spite of poor performance, since they have done what every other manager does which is to make the pensioners destitute. The average institutional fund is managed based on mediocracy. It is never worth taking a risk and do something different to your peer group. But if you do the same as everybody else you will be handsomely rewarded even if you lose most of the money.
$400 TRILLION PENSION GAP
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