Anbei ein Auszug eines sehr, sehr ausführlichen Statements der Investoren-Größe Jim Rogers, welches er aktuell bei einem Investoren-Treffen der ABN Amro am 23.10.2007 in Amsterdam von sich gegeben hat. Auch wenn Bloomberg hier betont, dass die Wiedergabe der Rede von Rogers aufgrund eines fehlenden authorisierten Skriptes nicht zu 100% akkurat erfolgt ist, so werden hier seine Analysen und Intentionen doch sehr deutlich sichtbar. Lesenswerte Invest-Ansichten !!
Jim Rogers Says Fed Is `Debasing' Dollar (Transcript)
……More interested in the financial markets? As you all know we had a big bull market in bonds in the 80s and 90s. In my opinion, that bull market's over. Bonds went up neary every year between 1981 and 2003. It might be bonds are making a big top and bonds will be a terrible place to be for many years and in fact will be going down for many years. So if you're only in bonds, I'd urge you to go home and sell them, unless they are short term or unless they're special situations. Or if you happen to be bond portfolio manager, I would suggest you get another job. I would suggest you go in tomorrow morning and say I want to transfer into another part of the institution.
Even if I'm wrong, the bonds yielding two to five percent made in the developed world will mean you're not going to make any money in bonds. Stocks, too, had a big bull market in the 80s and 90s, and in my view that bull market is over too. Investment is going to be in a big trading range for years to come. I don't think stocks are going to be a great place to be. If you look at historic valuation methods of stocks, things like dividend yields, book value, price-earnings ratios. Stocks in the West are very expensive and traditionally when stocks are selling up here, you sell, when they're selling down here you buy. That's the way it's always been, these are not short term trading devices obviously. But these valuation methods have been around for a long time and I expect stocks in the west in the wake of being in big trading ranges for several more years now.
It's happened before, by the way. All the brokers who tell you that stocks always go up haven't done their homework, because we've had many periods in history where stocks have gone sideways, flat to down, for long, long, periods of time. So you need to do your homework and be worried about stocks. If you're good at buying them here and selling them three or four years later up here, you'll make a fortune. Plenty of guys who did that in the 70s, they made lots of money the last time we had a period like this.
Most people need a secular bull market to make a lot of money. A market that is essentially rising all the time, such as stocks were in the 80s or 90s. Well, we have a market like that now, in raw materials, natural resources or commodities, call it what you will. When I try to tell people about commodities, most people get confused. Most people don't have a clue. Most people cannot spell commodities yet. Most people think you get your coffee at Starbucks. They don't know you can buy and sell this stuff, that you can make a lot of money. But I will remind you that 30 years ago most people in the world, in fact, even in Europe, couldn't spell mutual funds. Most people didn't have a clue what a mutual fund was 30 years ago. There wasn't any in the world, believe it or not.
If you had gone to, say, Madrid, or Paris, or Rome, as recently as 1950 and said to them, have you been to the stock exchange or where is the stock exchange, people would look at you in those towns and they would have said what is the stock exchange? They didn't know what a stock exchange was. I was here, I know. They didn't have a clue, what a stock exchange even was 30 years ago. We had a big bull market. We had television. We had everything. Everybody learned about bull market and stocks and mutual funds and hedge funds.
But that's where commodities are now. Most people in the world know nothing about them. Most people have never mentioned a commodity. In the world right now, there are over 70,000 mutual funds for the public to invest in stocks and bonds in the world. There are fewer than 50 for the public to invest in commodities. It's an unknown, untouched, uninvested asset class. This is one reason it is going to go up so, so, so much more. Someday there will be thousands of mutual funds for the public to invest in commodities. Just as there became thousands of mutual funds for the stocks. So it's going to happen.
By the way, this has happened many times in history. I'm not a very smart guy, I just went and looked it up. You can go look it up too. Throughout history, we've had long periods of when commodities have gone up, followed by long periods when they've gone down, and long periods when they were up again. This has been going on for hundreds of years. Now, probably what you're going to say now is, OK, how long do these periods last? Who knows about the present one, but I do know that the longest bull market in commodities I could find lasted 23 years. The shortest lasted 15 years. So this is not a prediction, but if history is any guide, the current bull market is going to last sometime between 2014 and 2022. So around 2018, 2019, we should start re-examining and see whether this bull market has much further to go.
If I were buying currencies, and I am, probably the best currency to buy right now, in my view, is the renminbi, the Chinese currency. I hate to use the word safe in talking about investments, but I don't see how one can really lose on the renminbi in the next decade or so. It's got to double. It's got to triple. It's got to quadruple. The other two currencies, which I would buy now, are the Yen and the Swiss franc. Both of those currencies get pounded down because of the carry trade, especially the yen. So all of you guys are pounding it down so you can participate in the carrying trade. Well, I'm going to sell. I'm buying the yen, because I know that the carry trade is going to unwind someday, and I know that the yen is going to go straight up, as is the Swiss franc. So I'm buying the yen.
As the U.S. dollar goes down, something is going to go up against it and the main thing that's going to go up against it are commodities, because their traded in dollars. Not on a day-to-day relationship, but one of the reasons - now, commodities are going to go up no matter what happens to the dollar. If the dollar does nothing, if it rises, if it falls, the supply and demand is out of balance, so we're going to have a bull market in commodities. If I could just start trading in dollars, it's more bullish. It's icing on the cake. Because as the dollar declines, commodities go up. Now will they go up more than other currencies? Probably. They usually have throughout history. If anything, if I were a good trader, I would probably buy the dollar, because it's probably going to have a rally. But when it rallies, I would suggest you get out of dollars.
I would be remind you all that the pound sterling, which used to be the world's reserve currency, lost 80 percent of its value, top to bottom, as it went through the whole period of losing its status as the world's reserve currency. And had - if the UK had not discovered the North Sea, who knows how low the pound sterling would have gone.
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