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HORDING CASH: Funds Hold the Highest Level of Cash Since 9/11

May 18, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

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In what may be an indication of how worried fund managers are about global risks right now, they have amassed a cash horde greater than any other since the 9/11 era. Despite their intentions at reducing risk, they may be closing the barn door after the horse is out. Chris Flood reports for the Financial Times:

Cash holdings among global fund managers have risen to their highest level since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US in a shift that reflects large investors’ worries about the deteriorating outlook for stock markets.

Cash balances have swelled to 6.1 per cent on average across the portfolios of global asset allocators according to Bank of America, which canvassed views from 288 investment professionals that together oversee assets of $833bn for pensions plans, insurance companies, asset managers and hedge funds.

The shift into cash — which is typically in vogue during periods of heightened risk aversion — coincides with a significant weakening in expectations about corporate earnings. A net 66 per cent of fund managers in May said they expected global profits to weaken, a low comparable to other crisis periods including the 2008 implosion of Lehman Brothers and after the dotcom bubble bust in 2000.

Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America, said that sentiment among investors was now “extremely bearish” with a net 13 per cent of fund managers swinging to a “underweight” position in equities compared with a net 6 per cent “overweight” in April.

“There has been a lot of damage to investors’ psychology and this is the result,” said Hartnett.

Wall Street analysts have been revising up their US corporate earnings forecasts for this year since January and Hartnett said that a small piece of good news might result in a temporary market rally. But he also cautioned that the “ultimate low” for equities had not yet been reached with the MSCI All Country World index, a global benchmark, down almost 17 per cent in dollar terms since the start of the year.

The US Nasdaq Composite has dropped by almost a quarter since the start of the year, sinking into a bear market as investors have shifted away from previously highly rated tech companies.

Global fund managers have held a consistently “overweight” exposure to technology stocks for the last 14 years but the allocation plummeted to a net 12 per cent “underweight” in May.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. was ranked #5 in CNBC's 2021 Financial Advisor Top 100. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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