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.

FX Dashboard: Mexican Peso Should Continue Outperforming

FX Dashboard: Take Profits on Long Mexican Peso Vs Short Canadian Dollar

Mexico’s Rate Curve to Continue Bear-Flattening

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

FX Dashboard: Stay Bullish on Mexican Peso

Alpha Bites: Mexico 5s10s Flattener with Paying Bias

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

FX & Rates

<p>Following the surprise rate hike by Mexico's central bank last week, the rates curve flattened dramatically. We have made the case before that the central bank should raise rates earlier than market expectations and the central bank's hawkish turn supports our recommendation to buy the Mexican peso against the Canadian dollar.</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>

Following the surprise rate hike by Mexico's central bank last week, the rates curve flattened dramatically. We have made the case before that the central bank should raise rates earlier than market expectations and the central bank's hawkish turn supports our recommendation to buy the Mexican peso against the Canadian dollar.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’s Curve Flattens Following the Rate Hike Surprise

MXN

Rates 10y Dashboard: Mexico’s Curve Flattens Following the Rate Hike Surprise