Russia’s sovereign wealth fund will take a punt on gold and slash $40 billion of US currency entirely out of its investment portfolio amid growing tensions with Washington, the country’s finance minister announced on Thursday.
Anton Siluanov said that the National Wealth Fund would reduce its share of dollars to zero before July 2021.
Speaking as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, he said that the process would be “fast enough” and would mirror a similar move by the country’s central bank to reduce assets held in American currency.
Under the plans, the proportion of dollars in the fund will fall from 35% to zero, while assets held in euro and the Chinese yuan will increase to 40% and 30%, respectively.
The share of the British pound will halve, from 10% to 5%, while the investment vehicle will buy into gold for the first time, with 20% of its assets to be hedged on the precious metal.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told journalists that political tensions between Washington and other nations were undermining faith in the currency overseas.
The imposition of sanctions and an unpredictable economic policy, call into question the reliability and convenience of using the American currency as the priority currency of deals.
Countries are now being forced to take measures against the risk of economic losses and disrupted transactions.
Therefore, there is increasing interest in developing alternative mechanisms. Using other currencies in trade is becoming more and more important on the international agenda.
Russia has championed a push away from the use of the dollar as the default global currency of trade and transactions.
The monopoly position of the dollar in international economic relations has become anachronistic, so gradually, the dollar is becoming more and more toxic.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point Currency News 2021.
Smart move, it is always best to have a diversified portfolio than having all of one’s eggs in one basket. I must also agree with their move away from the UK Pound as well but I do have reservations about using the Euro as like the UK the EU is a US minion who does the USA’s bidding.
No eggs in Zionist portfolios seems have the best results in the end?
This move might force the Rothschild Zionist central banking system to revert the US$ and Euro to gold backing.
Even if USA has no gold, I suspect the central bankers have all the gold once belonged to various regimes like Libya, Iraq and even USA’s former Fort Knox storage.
But with the amount of US$ circulating, there is probably not enough gold in our universe to back it, anyway.. Otherwise this means war, just look at history the 100+ years..
Fort Knox has been emptied a long time ago? It is probably stashed in the Vatican.