BofAML: Sell paper, buy hard assets

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Via the AFR:

Evidence is growing that global inflation is finally picking up, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch says investors need to “get real” and buy into tangible assets while rotating out of expensive stocks and bonds.

The investment bank’s US-based chief investment strategist Michael Harnett said the relative price of real assets, which includes real estate and commodities against financial assets, namely stocks and bonds, is at its lowest since 1926.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.