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Retirement Savings in Foreign Assets to help Protect Your Funds

Posted on December 7, 2009 by bobrichards

To stave off economic downturn, the Federal Reserve has been attempting to foster more market need by lowering the federal funds rate. That is the overnight borrowing price for banks; it triggers the lowering of most other loaning rates. This affects your retirement savings in 2 methods: you make less interest at the financial institution and your vacation to European countries costs you more.

Lower loan prices produce more demand for products and services. However excessive borrowing may create artificially created demand leading to inflation - the reducing of a dollar's worth. Do not let a falling dollar deliver you and your retirement savings down.

European countries has kept their prices fairly steady for the Euro. As a result the number of dollars required to purchase a euro has been increasing. In a year from March of 2007 to March of 2008, it is gone from 1.33 $/euro to 1.55$/euro . That's a decline of 15% in the worth of a dollar relative to the euro.

 

So in the event you purchased a foreign security dominated in Euros with your dollars in March 2007 and sold it in March of 2008, you'd have made 15% on your dollar investment even if that foreign security paid no interest, no dividends, and did not increase in its value in Euros. Of course, a rise in every of those would add to you're general gain in dollars and further help your foreign retirement savings.

You are able to take advantage of the weakening dollar by possess some retirement savings in international securities. That is simply because foreign investments are denominated in - and therefore purchased and redeemed - in that foreign currency.

There are several different ways to position some retirement savings outside the dollar. You can gain immediate diversification from the dollar just by purchasing foreign stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, etc. Simply by purchasing these foreign securities, you obtain exposure to currencies which are increasing against a deteriorating dollar.

In the event you bought a euro CD with your retirement plan and the euro rose 3% vs . the dollar, then you'd obtain that 3% on your initial investment. Plus, you'd obtain the average rate of interest that the Euro CD paid.

Keep in mind, though, that a rise in the dollar rises against your foreign currency, will subtract that percent of rise from what ever gain your foreign investment create in its own currency. Which means you might possibly lose a few of your preliminary investment. Consequently, only a portion of your retirement savings need to be in non-dollar assets.

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