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: EM Long-End Rates Relink with US Rates

Alpha Bites: Long Korean Won (KRW) Vs Short Taiwan Dollar (TWD)

Rates 10y Dashboard: LatAm Rates Lag Asia Even When Adjusted by Beta

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

FX & Rates

<p>In this note, we address the reasons behind the underperformance of South Korean bonds relative to interest-rate swaps and argue that further widening of the asset swap spread may present an opportunity.</p><p>The attached file is a snapshot of EM 10y rates market, which we produce daily, and where 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 the broad market.</p>

In this note, we address the reasons behind the underperformance of South Korean bonds relative to interest-rate swaps and argue that further widening of the asset swap spread may present an opportunity.The attached file is a snapshot of EM 10y rates market, which we produce daily, and where 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 the broad market.

Rates 10y Dashboard: Korean Asset Swap Spreads Have Widened

KRW 10Y

Rates 10y Dashboard: Korean Asset Swap Spreads Have Widened