Comments on: Davos Mistakes about Securitization http://paulwilkinson.com/2010/02/14/davos-mistakes-about-securitization/ Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:41:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PaulWilkinson http://paulwilkinson.com/2010/02/14/davos-mistakes-about-securitization/comment-page-1/#comment-4656 PaulWilkinson Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:09:53 +0000 http://paulwilkinson.com/?p=920#comment-4656 When "disclosure" is only boilerplate, it leaves retail investors where you indicate -- purgatory at best. Even when disclosure is substantive, we probably won't get rich, but at least we benefit from general economic growth from better capital allocation. When "disclosure" is only boilerplate, it leaves retail investors where you indicate — purgatory at best. Even when disclosure is substantive, we probably won't get rich, but at least we benefit from general economic growth from better capital allocation.

]]> By: Chikki http://paulwilkinson.com/2010/02/14/davos-mistakes-about-securitization/comment-page-1/#comment-4655 Chikki Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:02:01 +0000 http://paulwilkinson.com/?p=920#comment-4655 Vested interests cannot be expected to be philanthropic. Criminals cannot be expected to consider the result of their actions on their victims. The Pension scheme scandal in Britain led to sale of ULIPs as being more transparent. Now, in India, ULIPs are the scandal. The transparency is limited to telling the buyer that the risk is his, which it most certainly is. All said and done, what moves the free market is the herd instinct and those sheep that have intelligence enough to be the lead sheep, and get out with the fast buck, before it is too late. No amount of study of human psychology can change what humans are, and no amount of statistical analysis is going to be able to predict the market. So where does it leave the retail investor? Vested interests cannot be expected to be philanthropic. Criminals cannot be expected to consider the result of their actions on their victims. The Pension scheme scandal in Britain led to sale of ULIPs as being more transparent. Now, in India, ULIPs are the scandal. The transparency is limited to telling the buyer that the risk is his, which it most certainly is. All said and done, what moves the free market is the herd instinct and those sheep that have intelligence enough to be the lead sheep, and get out with the fast buck, before it is too late. No amount of study of human psychology can change what humans are, and no amount of statistical analysis is going to be able to predict the market. So where does it leave the retail investor?

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