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Snookered

March 29, 2021by jsblokland Leave a comment

Did Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, get himself into a pickle? With bond yields still on the rise, it´s starting to look that way. The markets seem to […]

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BONDS, FINANCIAL MARKETS

Bond issues

October 5, 2020by jsblokland Leave a comment

What to do about government bonds? The yield on government bonds is historically low, while the risk is high. In the event of rising inflation, they offer little or no buffer. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t ban them completely from multi-asset portfolios just yet.

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BONDS, MACRO, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

The Yieldless Society

July 1, 2019by jsblokland Leave a comment

Central banks worldwide – with the Fed and the ECB at the forefront – are on the brink of implementing their historically rapid policy reversal, yet interest rates are already […]

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BONDS, FINANCIAL MARKETS

Equity v Bond Returns

April 29, 2019by jsblokland Leave a comment

Charts showing massive divergence are interesting to look at most of the time. And the ‘gap’ chart between US equity and bond returns is no exception. Since the start of […]

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BONDS, EQUITIES, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

The era of extraordinary monetary policy continues

April 1, 2019by jsblokland Leave a comment

Few investors anticipated that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell could sound even more dovish than he has in recent months. But, at the last FOMC meeting, he managed to do […]

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BONDS, MACRO

The Void?

March 2, 2018by jsblokland Leave a comment

Just recently, bond investor PIMCO published the chart shown above. It’s one of many charts hitting headlines in recent weeks, revealing that the end of an era of unprecedented monetary […]

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BONDS, EQUITIES, FINANCIAL MARKETS, MACRO

Rational Exuberance?

November 17, 2017by jsblokland 1 Comment

Here is a ‘surprise’ for you. The number of news stories stating that irrational exuberance is back on the stock markets is growing rapidly. In addition, irrational exuberance was mentioned […]

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BONDS, EQUITIES, TACTICAL ASSET ALLOCATION

Have bond investors really gone mad this time?

August 16, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

Just recently, the following graph hit my Twitter timeline (courtesy @TihoBrkan). It shows that the yield on Eurozone high yield bonds is now equal to the yield on the 10-year […]

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BONDS, FINANCIAL MARKETS

Taper Time!

February 3, 2017by jsblokland Leave a comment

Inflation in the Eurozone spiked to 1.8% in January, the highest level in almost four years! More importantly, 1.8% is also extremely close to the ECB’s inflation target of ‘below, […]

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BONDS, MACRO

Oil will quickly change the inflation landscape

October 21, 2016by jsblokland Leave a comment

The Eurozone risks getting stuck in a deflationary trap. Well, at least that’s what the President of the European Central Bank, Mr. Draghi, keeps telling us. Eurozone inflation numbers, which […]

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