Investors focusing on the wrong type of rates

investment funds

24 October 2016
| By Anonymous (not verified) |
image
image
expand image

An upward shift in bond prices would significantly impact every asset's market price, from shares, to property to collectible licence plates, and that is the greatest risk investors face today, according to Montgomery Investment Management.

Chief investment officer, Roger Montgomery, said in his October whitepaper that investors needed to prepare for long bond rates to rise again.

Investors should be watching to see what happens with long bond interest rate as that was what would cause assets prices to change and not watch short-term interest rates, or central banks' next moves, Montgomery said.

"It is currently our view that long bond rates are at the end of a 35-year decline coinciding with the end of an even longer term expansionary credit cycle. As a result, prices for assets are at extreme high just as earnings are under pressure to grow without the benefit of credit."

Low interest rates caused investors to chase higher yields and migrate from savings deposits to riskier assets, like shares, hybrid securities, and property, he said.

The whitepaper highlighted that price records were being broken across the world, in all asset classes, and that was caused by low interest rates. But, it also signalled a short-term cycle ‘bubble'.

The whitepaper also featured Deloitte Access Economics' economist Chris Richardson, who warned of a multi-decade period of poor returns from property following booming prices.

As interest rates rose, asset values and prices would fall, pulling returns down with them, Richardson said.

Read more about:

AUTHOR

Recommended for you

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

1 day 22 hours ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

6 days 4 hours ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 4 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

2 weeks 6 days ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

5 days 2 hours ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

4 days 5 hours ago