GLOSSARY

RISK-ON

13 June 2018 By PDSNET

A time when short-term international investors feel comfortable with investing in more risky assets. This makes them inclined to invest in emerging markets like South Africa. During a risk-on period, international investors tend to sell safe investments like US treasury bills and look for the higher returns to be obtained in third world countries like South Africa, Turkey and Brazil. The opposite of risk-on is "risk-off".

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