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.

FX Dashboard: Stay Bullish on Mexican Peso

Alpha Bites: Long Mexican Peso (MXN) Vs Short Canadian Dollar (CAD)

FX Dashboard: Timing the Entry for Peruvian Sol

Rates 10y Dashboard: Mexico – Delaying the Inevitable Monetary Tightening

FX & Rates

<p>The Mexican peso rallied following the midterm election on Sunday, while the Peruvian sol sold off following the presidential runoff. While the elections reaffirmed our bullish view for the Mexican peso, despite our constructive view on the Peruvian sol we stay on the sidelines given the recount-related uncertainty ahead.</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>

The Mexican peso rallied following the midterm election on Sunday, while the Peruvian sol sold off following the presidential runoff. While the elections reaffirmed our bullish view for the Mexican peso, despite our constructive view on the Peruvian sol we stay on the sidelines given the recount-related uncertainty ahead.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: Opposite Reactions of Mexican Peso and Peruvian Sol to Sunday’s Elections