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: Opposite Reactions of Mexican Peso and Peruvian Sol to Sunday’s Elections

FX Dashboard: Winners and Losers in the EM Turnaround

FX Dashboard: Peruvian Sol Cheapens Further Ahead of the Elections

FX Dashboard: Peru’s Currency and Rates Are Already Reflecting Election Risk

Alpha Bites: Long Chilean Peso Vs Short Australian Dollar

US Markets Playing Along to Fed Tune…for Now

FX & Rates

<p>The Peruvian sol has depreciated to its historically weakest level ahead of the presidential runoff election this weekend. We find the currency to be attractive from the point of view of valuations, macroeconomic fundamentals, and a fragmented Congress preventing radical policymaking. However, given the binary risks, we suggest waiting until after the election for a better entry point.</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 Peruvian sol has depreciated to its historically weakest level ahead of the presidential runoff election this weekend. We find the currency to be attractive from the point of view of valuations, macroeconomic fundamentals, and a fragmented Congress preventing radical policymaking. However, given the binary risks, we suggest waiting until after the election for a better entry point.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: Timing the Entry for Peruvian Sol

PEN

FX Dashboard: Timing the Entry for Peruvian Sol