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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellock. That's a Bloomberg business flash the Brexit

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Speaker 1: vote on Bloomberg Radio. Brexit. It will be the vote

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Speaker 1: heard around the world and could certainly rattle financial markets,

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Speaker 1: even though day by day stocks, bonds, currencies have been

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Speaker 1: adjusting their values as the risk of the Brexit rises

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Speaker 1: and as the chance of the remain sometimes falls. Bill

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Speaker 1: Morokoff joins this now. He's head of research at Axioma. Actually,

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Speaker 1: it provides factor based risk models and profoil portfolio construction

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Speaker 1: tools for equity investors. So of course they've applied these

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Speaker 1: tools to the Brexit and what it could do to

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Speaker 1: markets around the world. Bill, welcome to the show, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for sharing a research. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. So

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Speaker 1: first of all, tell us what you use. How do

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Speaker 1: you look at this question for example of how Brexit

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Speaker 1: could affect stocks. You say that your opinion, equities could

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Speaker 1: lose nearly of their value in the aftermath of a

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Speaker 1: Brexit vote. That's correct. My research looked into politically driven

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Speaker 1: events with significant market impact, and we found cases of

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Speaker 1: equity and currency markets dropping twenty over a two to

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Speaker 1: three months horizon. So this formed the basis of our

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Speaker 1: stress test analysis. Now let me be clear that's not

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Speaker 1: a prediction or a forecast. We don't have a crystal

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Speaker 1: ball is so this will happen. But prudent risk management

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Speaker 1: requires considering severe but plausible stresses and examining the impact

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Speaker 1: on a portfolio. What are some of the tactics that

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Speaker 1: you would employ in order to measure this risk and

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Speaker 1: also mitigate the risk. Sure So in measuring it, besides

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Speaker 1: the correlations the volatilities we put in, we look to

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Speaker 1: the historical experience of the European Greek debt crisis, specifically

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Speaker 1: the summer of two thousand and eleven, and also periods

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Speaker 1: like Black Wednesday from September when the pound left the

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Speaker 1: exchange rate mechanism. We also took a look at the

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Speaker 1: Scottish referendum, and we're doing that in order to get

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Speaker 1: a sense for what could be the magnitude of shocks

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Speaker 1: and how the markets moved together. We then take our

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Speaker 1: enterprise risk platform and put those in the shocks and

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Speaker 1: random against a portfolio of European bonds and equities to

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Speaker 1: see what the impact could be. And clearly, a huge

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Speaker 1: shock to the foot see shock to the decks leads

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Speaker 1: to significant losses in the in these portfolios. But it

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Speaker 1: is very consistent. What's what we have observed in the

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Speaker 1: past when there have been political crises and markets have responded.

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Speaker 1: What about US stocks? Sure? Well, of course what we've

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Speaker 1: seen in the past is when there's been a major disruption,

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Speaker 1: markets tend to become very correlated correlation and goes to

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Speaker 1: almost one. So in our in our stress test, we

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Speaker 1: actually did shot the S and P five plunder going

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Speaker 1: down to capture that kind of effect. And of course

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Speaker 1: if you put in a portfolio with US exposure, you're

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Speaker 1: going to see significant impact there. I wonder if you

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Speaker 1: could describe what exactly you would buy and or sell

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Speaker 1: in order to counteract this event that may happen. Sure,

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Speaker 1: that's actually a question that's better asked to our clients,

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Speaker 1: as we are essentially a framework provider and a tool

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Speaker 1: provider allows people to do the analysis of their portfolios.

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Speaker 1: So our philosophy is we provide the tools and the

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Speaker 1: clients who have the portfolios can analyze their portfolios themselves

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Speaker 1: and decide what's the best approach to run with Our

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Speaker 1: thinking here is that most likely it would be equity

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Speaker 1: related portfolios that would take the biggest hit. Currency exposure

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Speaker 1: would be we put in say temper sent drop of

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Speaker 1: the pound version dollars I would be more middle level,

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Speaker 1: and the sovereign curves in Europe would be relatively muted

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Speaker 1: under scenario. Again, it's just a scenario that we're considering.

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Speaker 1: That was our order of magnitude. So obviously if you

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Speaker 1: have this type of portfolio, as you'd look to reduce

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Speaker 1: your equity risk. That's interesting to me because we've had

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Speaker 1: this screaming bond rally around the world. Not granted it's

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Speaker 1: so like a lot of people were trading off of

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Speaker 1: Brexit headlines and the growing risk that the ukse citizenry

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Speaker 1: will vote to leave the European Union. But you're saying

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Speaker 1: your models suggests that the fixed income the bonds have

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Speaker 1: the very least impact and very little at all potentially

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Speaker 1: from this particular scenario. Well, I should be clear hair

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Speaker 1: that's our input as the stress test, So you could

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Speaker 1: definitely do another stress test where you see much greater

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Speaker 1: drop uh, in the bond prices or vice urs, you

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Speaker 1: could see an actual tightening of the yields. So when

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Speaker 1: we're doing this analysis, it's really stress test basis, and

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Speaker 1: that's where the expertise of the risk manager is using

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Speaker 1: this kind of tool needs to come in to express

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Speaker 1: their views and test out their ideas. Bill, I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: if the UK decides to leave the European Union and

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Speaker 1: the pound sterling falls in value, would that not help

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Speaker 1: British manufacturing companies or companies in Britain be more competitive

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Speaker 1: and therefore their stocks might actually do well. Definitely. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we there's a historical precedent for that during Black Wednesday

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Speaker 1: but simultaneously there was an equity rally. So that's another

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Speaker 1: stress that's that you might run and it's quite plausible. Again,

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Speaker 1: nobody knows what's really going to happen, so it's best

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Speaker 1: to take your portfolio, express your views and have a

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Speaker 1: tool that captures it across the multi astic class portfolio

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Speaker 1: and is able to capture all those various correlations and

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Speaker 1: let you express your ideas as you would like to.

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Speaker 1: Bill Morocoffee is the head of research at Axioma. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for being with us right now. Taking

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Speaker 1: a look at the dollar trading against the British pounds sterling,

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