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.

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FX & Rates

<p>In this note, we show that EM FX and USD have converged to their long-term trends in REER terms, indicating that they are close to fair valuations. However, there is considerable differentiation within EM, providing attractive relative-value opportunities.</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>

In this note, we show that EM FX and USD have converged to their long-term trends in REER terms, indicating that they are close to fair valuations. However, there is considerable differentiation within EM, providing attractive relative-value opportunities.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: EM FX Is Fair in REER Terms but Differentiation Abounds

Dollar Index

FX Dashboard: EM FX Is Fair in REER Terms but Differentiation Abounds