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.

Rates 10y Dashboard: Is the Correlation of EM with US Curve Steepening Re-Emerging?

FX Dashboard: Israeli Shekel Finally Starts Getting Cheaper

Rates 10y Dashboard: Which Countries Have the Steepest Curves?

Rates 10y Dashboard: Which Countries Are Most and Least Correlated with the US?

FX & Rates

<p>In this note, we argue that Israel's curve should continue to steepen on the back of the high fiscal deficit amid a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and low year-to-date bond issuance hurting the long end while the short end should remain anchored.</p><p>Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM 10y rates market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among countries by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other countries based on their respective betas to an EM rates index.</p>

In this note, we argue that Israel's curve should continue to steepen on the back of the high fiscal deficit amid a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and low year-to-date bond issuance hurting the long end while the short end should remain anchored.Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM 10y rates market in which we seek to identify the leaders and laggards among countries by comparing the performance of each to its history as well as to other countries based on their respective betas to an EM rates index.

Rates 10y Dashboard: Israel’s Curve Should Continue to Steepen

ILS 10Y

Rates 10y Dashboard: Israel’s Curve Should Continue to Steepen