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.

Alpha Bites: Take Profits on Two Rates Recommendations

Rates 10y Dashboard: Which EM Countries Stand to Benefit if US Rates Vol Keeps Falling?

FX Dashboard: Stay Bullish on Mexican Peso

Alpha Bites: Receive Colombia 5y Versus Pay Mexico 5y Rate

Alpha Bites: Mexico 5s10s Flattener with Paying Bias

Rates 10y Dashboard: Mexico’s Curve Has Started to Bearish Flatten

FX Dashboard: Monitor Colombian Peso for an Entry Point

Rates 10y Dashboard: Colombia’s Curve Steepens on Fiscal Concerns

FX & Rates

<p>In this note, we discuss the Mexican central bank's most recent monetary policy meeting where it kept policy rates steady while reiterating that it expects inflation to converge to the target next year. We continue to expect the central bank to raise rates this year and emphasize our trade recommendations meant to capture that view.</p><p>Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM 10y rates market in which 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 an EM rates index.</p>

In this note, we discuss the Mexican central bank's most recent monetary policy meeting where it kept policy rates steady while reiterating that it expects inflation to converge to the target next year. We continue to expect the central bank to raise rates this year and emphasize our trade recommendations meant to capture that view.Separately, the attached file is a snapshot of the EM 10y rates market in which 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 an EM rates index.

Rates 10y Dashboard: Mexico – Delaying the Inevitable Monetary Tightening

MXN 5Y

Rates 10y Dashboard: Mexico – Delaying the Inevitable Monetary Tightening