By Alexander Green At The Oxford Club’s Private Wealth Seminar at the beautiful Four Seasons Resort in Santa Fe this week, a number of investment analysts offered our Members their outlooks on stocks, bonds, currencies, metals and other investable assets.
There were plenty of exciting investment ideas. One of the most compelling, in my view, came from Chris Gaffney, president of World Markets at EverBank.
The bank, acquired by TIAA earlier this year, is offering a unique CD with 46.6% upside potential… and perhaps much more.
This takes a bit of explaining, but stick with me a moment because comprehending this is well worth your while.
Certificates of deposit used to be considered boring, ho-hum investments best suited for widows and orphans.
And when it comes to traditional CDs, that’s still pretty much the case. According to Bankrate.com, the average three-year CD in this country currently yields 1.74%.
Try to control your excitement.
However, some banks now offer nontraditional CDs with far more upside potential and the same federal insurance (FDIC) that guarantees your safety of principal.
EverBank is one of them. Its new MarketSafe Emerging Currencies CD offers you bold earnings potential over the next three years with absolutely no risk to your principal.
Here’s how it works…
The MarketSafe Emerging Currencies CD is a dollar-denominated three-year CD whose return is based on the performance of five emerging market currencies: the Brazilian real (BRL), the Chinese renminbi (CNH), the Indian rupee (INR), the Indonesian rupiah (IDR) and the Turkish lira (TRY).
Make no mistake. These are volatile currencies that fluctuate widely against the dollar.
However, I’m bullish on emerging markets. They represent over three-quarters of the world’s landmass and 85% of its population. (India and China alone have more than 2.7 billion people.)
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Countries like these will be the primary engine of world growth for decades to come. And while I cannot say with any certainty where these currencies will be in three years, there is a good possibility that the majority of them – and possibly all of them – will be higher against the dollar.
Rather than accruing interest, this MarketSafe CD will pay out the sum of these currencies’ appreciation against the dollar over the next three years multiplied by a leverage factor of seven.
To take an example, let’s say these five currencies average 6.66% appreciation against the dollar over the term, which begins on October 11, 2017, and ends on October 15, 2020.
EverBank will multiply that return for CD holders sevenfold. So, for instance, a $10,000 CD would earn a total return of 46.62%, or $4,662.
If the currencies appreciated more, your return would be greater. If they appreciated less, your return would be less.
However, even if most of these currencies (or all of them) went down against the dollar, you would still receive 100% of your principal back. And that’s FDIC guaranteed.
If you only got back your principal, yes, you would have lost out on the meager yield you could have collected in a traditional CD. But that’s a small price to pay to earn a potential 33%… 46%… or 88% return …read more
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