Wall Street capitulates to MB asset allocation

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Over this year we have watched as various Wall Street investment houses have made a hash of sector rotations and equity factors. Today I can report that they are increasingly falling in behind MB (which may not be a good thing!).

The most bearish on stocks and hawkish on inflation has been BofA. No longer!

Tale of the Tape: China = best government bond marketYTD (4.5%), 2nd best currency vs US$ (0.9%), worst HY bond market (-4.8%, spreads>1000bps), worst MSCI equity index (-5.7%); like Japan 1990-2007, China the new global deflationary force.

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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.