What to buy as interest rates sink to zero

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JPM looks at the history of asset allocation in other countries using the US as example:

 The steady fall in UST yields, despite a strong economy and a large deficit, raises the prospect that the US could join the zero bond yield world of Japan and Europe in the next few years.

 ECB and BoJ have effectively fallen into a liquidity trap where extra liquidity has little impact given a weakened financial sector, the zeroyield bound, and backward-looking inflation expectations.

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About the author
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.