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The Currency of Politics
In The Currency of Politics, Stefan Eich argues that successive asset price bubbles show money needs to come back under explicit political control.
St Jay and the inflation dragon
February 2024: With markets pricing in multiple rate cuts for 2024, investors appear content that inflation is yesterday’s problem. But if inflation proves stickier than forecast and central banks are unable to grant the market the rate cuts it’s expecting, risk assets could be vulnerable.
A golden ticket?
January 2024: 2022 showed how crucial asset correlations are for portfolio resilience, as equities and bonds fell together. While markets celebrated falling inflation last year, this month’s Green Line examines inflation volatility’s importance in the new regime and potential opportunities for investors.
Q4 2023 Report
After a year dominated by talk of generative AI, it’s easy to forget the paramount importance of people when it comes to productivity. We engaged with Grifols, a Spanish bio-pharma company, about high staff turnover.
Survival at 5?
January 2024: Can the economy and markets survive interest rates at 5%? Not for long, suggests fund manager Matt Smith – either interest rates must come down or asset prices do.
Investment Review
January 2024: After a difficult year for portfolio performance, Jonathan Ruffer looks ahead to a world which is curiously unfit for investment purpose, given the current condition of the equity market and the end of the decades-long bull market in bonds.
A paper tiger after all?
December 2023: Fed Chairman Powell aims to control inflation like his predecessor Volcker did. While markets approve his progress so far, Economist Jamie Dannhauser notes that unlike Volcker, Powell may lack the political support to maintain tight policy. The Fed’s greatest test may lie ahead.
Rethinking portfolio construction
Fund Manager Alex Lennard and Lawrence Parker-Brown from The Inside Network discuss Ruffer’s outlook for markets and portfolio construction amid major regime change.
So you want stock TIPS?
November 2023: After a bond market rout commensurate with the steepest and fastest rate hiking cycle in a generation, is there now a case for adding fixed income into portfolios? Perhaps - there might even be two. In this month’s green line, Fund Manager Duncan MacInnes looks at the cyclical and structural cases for inflation-linked bonds.
It's a very, very mad world
October 2023: Some extraordinary dynamics have emerged in markets in 2023. None more startling than the breakdown of the typical relationship between bond yields and equity valuations – especially mega-cap tech stocks. So far, it’s been bond investors who have endured the pain of rising real yields. But is an equity market repricing – reflective of stickier inflation and ‘higher for longer’ rates – the shoe that’s yet to drop?
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London
Ruffer LLP
80 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL
Paris
Ruffer S.A.
103 boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris, France
New York
Ruffer LLC
300 Park Avenue
New York NY 10022
Edinburgh
Ruffer LLP
31 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh EH2 4ET