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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene. Along

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Speaker 1: turn to Giant Wood at Showy Bank for America's court.

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Speaker 1: He has had a research investment committee. Chard always grab

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you. Muhammadal Arrian, writing in the

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Speaker 1: FT this morning, the inherent instability of the goldilocks market consensus.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that outlook, that nice goldie looks outlook

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Speaker 1: that many people have, Jared, do you think that is unstable? Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks Shan. First of all, I think that Bohammad maybe

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Speaker 1: hoping for a consensus where I certainly don't see what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Thinking about investor uh comments and questions this year,

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Speaker 1: they have been entirely dominated by fears about things getting

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Speaker 1: too hot, too much, stimulus, too much, you know, central

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Speaker 1: bank easing is the is the reopening happening too quickly?

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Speaker 1: You know? For for for markets, I mean, these have

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Speaker 1: been the questions that have been constantly put to us,

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Speaker 1: and I think that the the truth is are joking

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of segment. You know, the markets have

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Speaker 1: digested all this incredibly well. You know the fixes that

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Speaker 1: you know sixteen thirty and and so the big takeaway

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Speaker 1: for us is that, in fact, the most contrarian view,

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Speaker 1: I think that the most out of consensus thought right

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Speaker 1: now is that things might actually continue to go well.

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Speaker 1: You may even start to see uh, some deflationary forces

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Speaker 1: kind of work their way back into the system in

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Speaker 1: second half of this year, in the start of next year, Jared,

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Speaker 1: what percentage of long only by side, the more traditional

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Speaker 1: investment is off their bogey. If they're tight, are square

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Speaker 1: to the market. They want to be like the SB five,

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Speaker 1: even if they're removed from it on the edge of

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Speaker 1: hedge fund. How many people behind right now? I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have gotten positioned for for reopening

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Speaker 1: from reflation. They've gotten into some of these value trades,

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Speaker 1: some of the cyclical sectors, especially financials and and uh

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Speaker 1: energy materials a little bit um, but they're not completely offsides.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, in most of our measures are internal

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Speaker 1: proprietary measures suggest that investors have pulled back in positioning

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Speaker 1: over the last several weeks, they're they're you know, somewhere

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Speaker 1: closer to neutral from much more aggressive levels earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: So I think that the fear of you know, aggressive

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Speaker 1: investor positioning, people are overly exuberant about the market um

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Speaker 1: and that's going to give us, you know, some kind

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Speaker 1: of altility. I think that might be a little bit

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Speaker 1: misplaced here a list. So this is incredibly important, and

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Speaker 1: that the behavior wrapped around all this blah blah blah

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Speaker 1: we do is critical. And as Mr Wardards says, they're

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Speaker 1: people aren't born, are aren't on board the bull market enthusiasts.

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Speaker 1: And you can see this particularly in the bond market

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Speaker 1: right the fact that we can get that bid into

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Speaker 1: the long end, we do see a flattening yield curve.

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Speaker 1: And Jared, do you think that the bond market and

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Speaker 1: the message there that is a lot less bullish than

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Speaker 1: the message from equities is translating into the equities. Have

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Speaker 1: we seen the full play out of a less inflationary

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Speaker 1: reality within the equity spectrum? No? I think I think

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Speaker 1: at least it's exactly in the equity market where you see,

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Speaker 1: you know, the biggest potential change over the second half

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Speaker 1: of this year. You know, if it's true our economists

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Speaker 1: have been suggesting, for example, you know, you could see uh,

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Speaker 1: some downward pressure on price indexes from goods as people

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Speaker 1: and all the kind of consumer behavior changes into this fault,

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Speaker 1: you could start to see, um, some of these the

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Speaker 1: short term price pressures actually moderate in the way that

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Speaker 1: economists and beneficials have been promising for some time. People

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Speaker 1: you know, disinflationary or even to just return to normalcy. Um.

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Speaker 1: and in financial markets. Jared always shop super Smart's gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from your child Wood at their Bank America Securities

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Speaker 1: head of Research Investment Committee. When you go off of Bosie,

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Speaker 1: you learn that there's a complexity here. John John is

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Speaker 1: just not a simple yield down, price up kind of analysis.

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Speaker 1: There's some real complexity. Let's talk about that complexity now.

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Speaker 1: and Visually, let's start with just a simple one. The

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Speaker 1: headline from your research, credit is vulnerable to a negative surprise,

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Speaker 1: how su Vis? Basically, the valuations in credit have gotten

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Speaker 1: the FED has been providing for for a long time now,

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Speaker 1: and any of those kinds of that a hawkish tilt

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Speaker 1: is a fact put. But it's I would since you

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Speaker 1: put it in that language, I would say that put

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Speaker 1: that will we won't see um you know, fifteen twenty

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Speaker 1: of dislocation in the market, you know, companies, high quality

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Speaker 1: types of dislocations would you can conceivably imagine FIT stepping in,

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Speaker 1: That is that perhaps credit spread trades more in tandem

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Speaker 1: the past, these were two distinct issues where typically when

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Speaker 1: prospects for high ye low higher bonds and leverage loans

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Speaker 1: to get tighter, but that room for tightening is simply

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Speaker 1: um the situation where there's a clear difference between um

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Speaker 1: HI yield and investment grade. This is actually a fascinating

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Speaker 1: discussion and highlights why so many investment managers prefer high

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Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting any all in credit losses. We're not

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Speaker 1: suggesting a forceful pick up. We are. What we are

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Speaker 1: suggesting is the compensation for investment grade. The spread is

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Speaker 1: lower compensation for taking on investment grade credit? Um? That's

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Speaker 1: that that it's really not that much a scope there.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, if the economy debates get higher,

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Speaker 1: could they get wider um. We think that they very

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Speaker 1: much the case that they could get wider without affecting

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Speaker 1: the verall default rate visually, in that we think the

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Speaker 1: they'll look at spreads and say things are tight, but

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Speaker 1: they're the tightest since two thousand and seven, and this

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Speaker 1: income research on a bit of a clinic TALM and

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Speaker 1: was happening in the credit market at the moment. Let's

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Speaker 1: save ourselves as Semasha here June thirty, two thousand, twenty

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Speaker 1: one SEAS with principle global Semen, What did you change

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Speaker 1: in your mid year outlook? Hi, tom Um in terms

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Speaker 1: of the changes, you know, I think that how we

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Speaker 1: came in. I think most people are expecting inflation to

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Speaker 1: pick up. UM. We we had a timeline for tapering.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anything has changed in UM. If anything,

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Speaker 1: more difficult with I think you should see a bit

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Speaker 1: more volatility. I think there's a lot of vulnerabilities in

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Speaker 1: the market, but we're still holding on to our tenure

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Speaker 1: target of around one eighty five by the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, and I don't be much changed on that.

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Speaker 1: This goes to the quote from Pita Cheer of Academy.

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Speaker 1: I'll be catching up with him in an hour or so.

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Speaker 1: Take some gains, reduced risk, and enjoy a few weeks

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Speaker 1: with less stress. Do you agree with that, Sema? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the thing is that for investors, they need

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Speaker 1: to look through some of the noise over the coming months.

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Speaker 1: you're looking at taking a six month to one year

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Speaker 1: of you there is still a strong economic recovery underway.

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Speaker 1: You may get a few concerns around the fair, the

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Speaker 1: concerns about inflation, and given how expensive equities are, you know,

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