Investment strategy is simply the long term allocation of monies among the various asset types and investment markets.

When businessmen and women are afraid, they stop investing in real assets.

For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed asset investment for growth.

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Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over capacity in infrastructure and manufacturing.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 .

CIC chose to take a significant share in one branch, rather than a small share in the whole group, because doing so offered both a strategic advantage (access to energy resources) and a monetary benefit (investment in dollar denominated assets).

Low interest rates on deposits encourage savers, especially households, to invest in fixed assets, rather than keep their money in banks.

But domestic demand, which determines imports, consists not only of consumption, but also of fixed asset investment.

In 1995 2010, when China s average annual GDP growth rate was 9.9 , fixed asset investment (investment in infrastructure and real estate projects) increased by a factor of 11.2, rising at an average annual rate of 20 .

Second, in times of widespread distress, liquid portfolios create investment opportunities, as depressed asset prices (often overly so) combine with the capacity to invest while others cannot or will not.

But domestic demand, which determines imports, consists not only of consumption, but also of fixed asset investment. Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

That, in turn, may cause higher investment or asset bubbles, as businesses seek to reinvest their savings somewhere.

One development that could change this forecast is if China comes to view investing in US financial assets as a money losing proposition.

It is not clear that the returns on these assets are higher than could be achieved from domestic investment, and in many cases they have a negative return.

Fixed asset investment in India rose by only 2.3 in the first half of 2012, compared to 9 in the year earlier period.

In the old days, when communist central planning suffocated China s economy, fixed asset investment was the regime s measure of economic progress.

Finally, while assets nowadays are much more liquid, this has not boosted long term productive investment.

Some OFDI leads to losses instead of profits, especially if the assets acquired are overpriced or not in the acquirer's core area of business.

Instead, global leaders should work to maximize the liquidity that unconventional policy measures have generated, and to use it to support investment in long term productive assets.

This increased domestic focus at the expense of foreign investments is compounded by a contraction in assets under management during times of crisis.

Assets

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(a) The balance between equity type assets and other assets, such as bonds

The use of cross border M As as a market entry strategy has increased for resource seeking and asset augmenting OFDI.

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But positive net assets are not sufficient to eliminate financial risk, which also depends on asset structure (the liquidity of assets and the alignment of maturities of assets and liabilities).

Although high growth requires large scale capital formation, the relation between investment in real capital assets and human capital in China seems to be out of proportion.

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The agreement was also signed by the Acting Minister of Finance, Solicitor General and Acting Minister of Justice and was approved by the Vice Chairman as Acting Chairman of the NTGL, since the Chairman was away on a county visit.

Forfeiture of assets

On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer term and illiquid assets. This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.

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Second, it increases global asset demand, generating asset price inflation.

That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.

They may have overvalued some of these assets but the assets are, by and large, still there.

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The second source is private investment. The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

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Investment in developing countries

The difference between the net foreign asset position of the United States and the accumulation of past current account deficits is the change in the valuation of those assets, due to changes in asset prices and in exchange rates.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

From 2008 to 2012, fixed asset investment in China amounted to 136 trillion, or 2.6 times more than the country s 2012 GDP.