Why Ray Dalio, Hedge Fund Titan, Goes Big on Brazil ETF at World’s Influential Hedge Funds Confe

Aug. 29, 2012 - PRLog -- (August 20, 2012, New York) Ray Dalio was the hedge fund world's most successful investor in 2010 and 2011, with his $120 billion Bridgewater Associates LP. Close attention is paid to his buys and sells, and Dalio’s most recent SEC filing revealed an acute interest in the Brazil ETF. Why he is focusing now in emerging markets will be analyzed at Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2012, "Getting Ready to Manage $5 Trillion by 2016"

Dalio publishes a quarterly letter called Outlook and Markets Discussion, and in the second quarter letter Dalio outlines some important points about the global economy. Dalio believes that “the developed world remains mired in the deleveraging phase of the long-term debt cycle. The European deleveraging has been badly managed and is escalating, bringing Europe closer to either debt implosion or a monetization and currency collapse”.

Dalio also comments that since the “most recent round of global monetary stimulus has ended, world economic growth has slowed and central bankers are in the process of stimulating again”. Bridgewater’s research puts global GDP estimates as having fallen from 3.3% to 1.9% and that 80% of world economies have slowed, including all of the largest. He says China is responsible for about half of the global slowdown, calling it the “locomotive of world growth” and claims it is responsible for 12% of global GDP.

Dalio sees U.S. markets pricing in additional long term deleveraging “including negative real earnings growth, negative real yields, high defaults and sustained lower levels of commodity prices.” The impression is clearly that Dalio sees more risk than reward around the world, but as a money manager his job is to find opportunity where others don’t.

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