Macro Drivers of Asset Performance and Global TAA Strategy
Short course
In Singapore (Singapore), London and New York (USA)
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This course provides a framework to formulate global asset allocation and trading strategies through the business cycle. It includes discussion of the main themes forming the background to global markets: efficacy of macro policies, including austerity, stimulus, monetary and fiscal policies; ‘exit strategies’ from unconventional monetary policies; economic imbalances; the sovereign debt crisis; and the potential of higher inflation.
These themes are contrasted from both orthodox (neo classical and neo Keynesian) and heterodox (Modern Monetary Theory, post Keynesian, and other) ideas that are driving current trends in investment decision making.
This course is also available remotely via LFS Live.
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About this course
The course is focused on global portfolio strategy but will benefit anyone involved in financial markets keen to gain a better understanding of the macro drivers of asset performance, particularly those who are executing cross-market trading strategies:
- Chief Investment Officers
- Global macro hedge fund managers
- Private wealth managers
- Risk managers
- Traders
- Strategists
Some prior knowledge and practical experience of using the main financial instruments and their derivatives is necessary in order to maximise the benefit from attending the course. Some prior knowledge of economics would be useful but is not necessary.
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Subjects
- Global
- IT risk
- Risk
- Returns
- Equity
- Trading
- Supply
- Interest Rates
- Commodities
- Investment
- Trading Strategies
- Global TAA Strategy
- Economic Policy
- Monetary Policy
- Fiscal Policy
- Risk Premiums
- Financial crises
- Correlation
- Dividend
- Equity Risk
- Foreign Exchange
- Global Economy
Teachers and trainers (1)
William Allen
Teacher
William Allen has over 35 years working in banking and finance. He is a senior consultant and speaker in the areas of executive bank management, ALM, treasury, risk management, capital markets, derivatives, and portfolio management. Mr Allen previously worked with JP Morgan in treasury, capital markets, risk management, securities and derivatives activities. Before consulting he worked as a portfolio manager and chief investment officer of a university endowment.
Course programme
Bond Yields, Inflation and Economic Policy
Overview
- Asset returns / Volatility and correlation / Risk adjusted returns – downside risk
- Relative returns and the business cycle
- Which economic indicators move bond markets?
- Real interest rates, the business cycle, growth and the return on capital
- Flow of funds – demand for and supply of credit
- Nominal interest rates and inflation expectations
- Bond yields as the expected path of short rates plus a risk premium
- Interest rates in an open economy
- Bond market sectors and trading strategies / What should we be watching?
- Modern framework of central bank policy / Money and inflation / Demand pull vs cost push inflation
- Interpretations of policy from neo classical synthesis and Modern Monetary viewpoints
- Inflation and the ‘output gap’ – excess demand
- Measures of inflation expectations / Inflation and asset returns – trading breakeven inflation
- Is deflation or inflation currently the major threat?
Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy and Risk Premiums
- Targets and instruments of monetary policy
- Operation of rules versus discretion the Taylor Rule
- Asset prices and alternative interpretations of the ‘transmission mechanism’
- Market based measures of policy expectations
- Zero bound on short rates – Quantitative Easing and other unconventional techniques
- Fiscal policy and the supply of government bonds
- Budget deficits and the sustainability of debt are public finances unsustainable in Europe? Is the Euro a sustainable arrangement?
- Which economic indicators move corporate bond spreads?
- Spreads and expected loss given default
- Structural models – Merton
- Empirical drivers of corporate bond spreads
- The ‘Credit Risk Premium Puzzle’
- Macro drivers – corporate bonds and the business cycle
Equities, Commodities and Foreign Exchange
Fundamental Drivers of Equities and Commodities
- Which economic indicators move equity prices?
- Equity valuation dividend discount model / P/E ratio – earnings yield versus Treasury yield
- Equity Risk Premium Puzzle – the price of risk
- Equities versus bonds through the cycle
- Value versus growth investing / Small cap versus large cap investing
- International – emerging markets performance
- Which economic indicators move commodity prices?
- Spot and forward commodity prices
- Sources of global demand and global supply
- Commodities as an inflation hedge
- Real commodity returns and the business cycle
- Diversification correlation with other asset classes
Fundamental Drivers of Foreign Exchange
- Which economic indicators move foreign exchange
- markets?
- Savings and investment in an open economy
- Balance of payments accounts / Sustainability of current account imbalances
- Absolute and Relative Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
- Definition of the real exchange rate
- Covered and Uncovered Interest Parity – ‘carry trades’
- Does the global economy still need to rebalance?
Summary: Global TAA (Tactical Asset Allocation) Strategy
- Top down approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
- Identifying the stage of business and interest rate cycle
- Asset class performance in business cycle phases
- TAA and alpha generation
- Characteristics of financial crises
- Managing downside risk
Macro Drivers of Asset Performance and Global TAA Strategy