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

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<li>Notwithstanding the economic uncertainties, with the Fed’s path better defined now than a few weeks ago, I expect the volatility of rates to peak in the coming weeks.</li>
<li>Uncertainty around the Fed's rate hikes has been spilling over to the monetary policy paths of EM countries even though many of them have been raising rates since last year.</li>
<li>If the US rates volatility falls as I expect, then it will be supportive of the short ends of EM rate curves in Latin American and Central European countries.</li>
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Notwithstanding the economic uncertainties, with the Fed’s path better defined now than a few weeks ago, I expect the volatility of rates to peak in the coming weeks.
Uncertainty around the Fed's rate hikes has been spilling over to the monetary policy paths of EM countries even though many of them have been raising rates since last year.
If the US rates volatility falls as I expect, then it will be supportive of the short ends of EM rate curves in Latin American and Central European countries.


US Treasury (10 Yr Generic)

How Are Fed’s Rate Hikes Impacting EM?