Gary A. Scott

First. a note of concern. Watch the fate of the US dollar tomorrow.  1.42 dollars has been a resistance point. Friday it crossed below that level and ended at about 1.425.  This could be the signal for another significant fall. There are three ways that Merri and I protect against the US dollar’s drop are to stay [...]

The numbers are in.  We now have two years of performance from our Multicurrency Portfolios to learn from. Here is how the portfolios we created and tracked with Jyske Bank performed in 2006: US Dollar Long 9.04% US Dollar Short   10.43%  S Dollar Hedge  11.46% Emerging Market  42.93% Asia Emerging Market  114.16% Then we formed five new portfolios last November 2006. Here is their performance in 2007. Swiss [...]

A number of years ago Merri and I made a lifestyle decision. We were making millions each year. But what is money without time and space? Plus we wanted to do something more than just accumulate wealth. After a great deal of thought, we sold out our printed publishing business and moved from the beach and city [...]

E Coli investments may grow in unusual ways because every cloud has a silver lining. Every problem creates opportunity. Take, for example, America ’s breakdown in excellence of food….or at least the perception. In modern Western market, excellence is taken for granted. There is little difference in utilitarian value from one competing product to the next. For [...]

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A reader recently sent me this note. “Dear Gary, I just noticed that you are proposing to reduce the gearing on your Emerging Market Portfolio from two to one down to one to one. Is that because you see more volatility/risk in Emerging Market equities in 2008? The use of the Singapore dollar is interesting.  If you were [...]

Four errors I made, obscured a special opportunity. One of our messages last week looked at a survey by New Global Initiatives Inc. This company provides marketing services to clients concerned with effectively reaching the emerging global community. They focus on the tens of millions of people relocating from their home nations to other nations for [...]

Our Canadian friends just celebrated their Thanksgiving and they have a bit more to be thankful for than our US readers as the Loonie remains strong and the US dollar continues to fall. There are three validations to the numerous warnings we have sent about a weakening greenback. First last month Jyske Bank warned that the dollar [...]

Okay it’s time to turn the burner down.  Look at the performance of the five multi currency portfolios we have formed and track with the help of Jyske Bank. These are really good numbers. Incredible actually…beyond world class. Especially considering that the 2006 Emerging portfolio we created and track was also up 114% last year. Portfolios 2007 Mar [...]

Here is some interesting news form Jyske Bank about emerging market bonds. They recently wrote: “The American interest-rate cut on 18 September caused risk tolerance to rise again after a period in which much attention was paid to the credit market in general and the sub-prime sector in particular. Therefore, emerging-market bonds posted excellent returns in [...]