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Inflation Protected

Our Portfolio Allocation Summary for June 2024.

The rally in gold continues and spot prices flirted with their all-time highs last week. Interestingly, these gains have occurred despite the rise in real yields, with which they are usually strongly inversely correlated. Physical demand for gold has…
The US Citi Economic Surprise Index has recently dipped below zero, indicating that US economic data releases have been disappointing expectations. Most notably, the ISM Services PMI started contracting in April against anticipation of a faster pace of…

Our Portfolio Allocation Summary for May 2024.

The Fed left the policy rate unchanged following its May FOMC meeting. It also announced it would slow the pace of quantitative tightening starting on June 1, from the current $60 billion per month to $25 billion per month for Treasuries redemptions, while…
The details of the JOLTS report showed a labor market that continued to cool in March. The number of US job openings decreased to 8.488 million in March, from 8.813 million in February, and below expectations of 8.680 million. Workers seemed to be less…
In its latest report, BCA Research’s Global Fixed Income Strategy service introduces the latest addition in its framework for investing in global inflation-linked bonds (ILB). To apply the Euro Inflation-Linked Golden Rule, investors should follow these…

In this Special Report, we introduce our Euro Inflation-Linked Golden Rule – a framework to profitably trade and invest in Euro Area inflation-linked bonds versus nominals. The Rule is currently signaling that nominal government bonds should outperform inflation-linked bonds over the next year as disinflation in the Euro Area continues.

In this report, we present our quarterly review of our Model Bond Portfolio. The anti-growth bias of the portfolio allocations hurt the portfolio performance in Q1/2024 as global growth surprised to the upside. However, we anticipate some recovery of the underperformance in our base case scenario for the next six months.

Our reaction to this morning’s CPI report and bond market moves.