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Fees on Securities Lending and Reversible Gold Transactions

This article discusses the fees associated with securities lending and reversible gold transactions, which are often used by pension funds and other entities to boost returns. The concerns surrounding these transactions and potential categorization in existing property income categories are also addressed.

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Fees on Securities Lending and Reversible Gold Transactions

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  1. Fees on Securities Lending and Reversible Gold Transactions http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/AEG/papers/m3FeesSecuritiesLending.pdf

  2. Securities Lending • Not covered in 1993 SNA Delivery of securities, to be returned after a given time period. • A type of reversible transaction. • Provider of securities receives a fee. • Often used by pension funds etc. to boost returns. • Receiver of securities is typically a dealer who has a short position; so the securities are on-sold. • Receiver of securities often will provide other securities as collateral. Same can be done with gold: • way of increasing returns on gold reserves.

  3. Concerns • Payment for securities dealers is clear (financial service). • This is payment to securities owner (not a service). • Seems to be property income because financial asset put at the disposal of another entity. • It is the legal title to the security, rather than funds, that is provided.

  4. Concerns • Does not fit into existing property income categories: • Property incomes accrue when the owners of financial assets put financial resources at the disposal of other institutional units, but: • interest is the return of the creditor from the debtor; and • dividends is the return from the share issuer to the party that supplies equity funds.

  5. Could create new property income category. • but minor. • Could classify by lent instrument (dividends for shares; interest for debt instrument) • but different to interest and dividends. • Could treat as all interest: • but different to interest; simple to implement. • AEG adopted this solution.

  6. Reversible Gold Transactions • Similar arrangement involving gold. • Gold can be financial asset (monetary gold) or nonfinancial asset. • AEG decided that was interest in all cases.

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