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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<p>The Chilean peso has given up its outperformance from earlier this year following the central bank's dovish hike. We remain constructive on the currency on the back of the market-friendly outcome of the presidential primaries last weekend, upward revisions to Chile's growth, the outlook for copper prices, and the possibility that the central bank raises rates faster than currently priced.</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 Chilean peso has given up its outperformance from earlier this year following the central bank's dovish hike. We remain constructive on the currency on the back of the market-friendly outcome of the presidential primaries last weekend, upward revisions to Chile's growth, the outlook for copper prices, and the possibility that the central bank raises rates faster than currently priced.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: Stay Bullish on the Chilean Peso

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FX Dashboard: Stay Bullish on the Chilean Peso