Fixed Income and Currency Strategist

Gautam Jain, PhD, CFA

Gautam Jain has over 25 years of experience covering global emerging fixed income and currency markets, both as a strategist and a portfolio manager. He has worked in buy-side and sell-side firms, including The Rohatyn Group (TRG Management), Barclays Capital, and Millennium Partners. He has helped manage emerging markets local-currency and hard-currency debt funds. The assets that he covers include currencies, interest rates, sovereign credits, and related derivatives. He specializes in portfolio construction, smart-beta index creation, and asset allocation. Mr. Jain holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University and is a CFA charter holder.

Rates 10y Dashboard: Are Rates in Turkey Due for a Reprieve?

Rates 10y Dashboard: Which Countries Are Outliers Within EM Rates This Year?

Rates 10y Dashboard: Higher Risk Premium in EM Rates Than in EM FX to Persist

Rates 10y Dashboard: Higher Inflation Means Another Rate Hike in Turkey

FX Dashboard: Turkey's Assets Descend into Familiar Turmoil

FX Dashboard: Lira Is an Idiosyncratic Play

FX & Rates

<p>We recommend staying away from the lira despite the high carry and attractive valuations as it is being weighed down by the risk of the central bank easing too early, a high current account deficit, low international reserves, and high short-term foreign debt.</p><p>Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM currency market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among currencies by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other currencies based on their respective betas to an EM currency index.</p>

We recommend staying away from the lira despite the high carry and attractive valuations as it is being weighed down by the risk of the central bank easing too early, a high current account deficit, low international reserves, and high short-term foreign debt.Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM currency market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among currencies by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other currencies based on their respective betas to an EM currency index.

FX Dashboard: Avoid the Lira as Turkey Remains Mired in a Crisis

TRY

FX Dashboard: Avoid the Lira as Turkey Remains Mired in a Crisis