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....For a start, we don't know what losses have been suffered elsewhere in hedge fund land. If a supposedly conservatively managed Goldman fund can lose 30% in a week, what other disasters are out there? How long can investors be pacified by the line that a fund that has suffered a big fall is due a big bounce? Investors may prefer to take their own chances and ask for their cash back, in which case expect more turbulence.The bigger danger, though, is that we may have seen only the tip of the sub-prime iceberg. Derivatives backed by US mortgages are so complex, and so widely distributed, that bad news stories from banks and financial institutions around the world are almost guaranteed over the next couple of months. We simply don't know how much financial pain is hidden, and how the market will react to its revelation.
But let's ask an expert. One of this column's favourite pundits is Alistair Ross Goobey, who managed Hermes, which includes the pension schemes of the Post Office and British Telecom. He is a favourite because he made a great call on March 12 2003, when coalition troops were about to attack Iraq and pension funds were charging into bonds. Ross Goobey appeared on Radio 4's Today programme and said it was the best moment in a generation to buy shares. His timing was correct to the day: the FTSE 100 at 3278 was indeed a bargain.
What does Ross Goobey make of today's market? Does the fallout from sub-prime have further to run? "I think it must have further to go because we haven't seen where the real losses in sub-prime have landed," he says.
"I think it [the market] has to go lower before I can go on to the Today programme, if they would still have me, and say this is a buying opportunity.
"It is difficult to know the total size of the losses but also who has suffered most. But clearly the losses have to be taken by somebody."
That seems to be plain common sense - usually the best guide.