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: US Rates Volatility Low but Rising

Alpha Bites: Buy South Africa 10y Bond FX-Hedged Vs Pay 10y IRS

Rates 10y Dashboard: Wide Asset Swap Spreads in South Africa

Rates 10y Dashboard: CE Rates Work as Hedge to Higher US Rates Vol

FX & Rates

<p>In this note, we revisit asset swap spreads in South Africa, which have started tightening amidst a global rates sell-off.</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. The analysis, therefore, is not a forecasting tool but to be used for identifying dislocations, which we loosely define as price moves that cannot be justified by fundamentals.</p>

In this note, we revisit asset swap spreads in South Africa, which have started tightening amidst a global rates sell-off.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. The analysis, therefore, is not a forecasting tool but to be used for identifying dislocations, which we loosely define as price moves that cannot be justified by fundamentals.

Rates 10y Dashboard: South Africa Asset Swap Spreads Start Tightening

US Treasury (10 Yr Generic)

Rates 10y Dashboard: South Africa Asset Swap Spreads Start Tightening