File 023635
Email on European Multi-Asset Coverage Meeting and Post-Election Hedge Fund Sentiment (File 023635)
Forwarded email from Deutsche Bank analyst Ozan Tarman to Landon Thomas Jr. discussing hedge fund perspectives on post-2016 election market trends, currency movements, and emerging market outflows.
Summary
Landon Thomas Jr., a New York Times financial reporter, forwards an analysis from Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman regarding impressions from a European multi-asset coverage meeting. The email discusses hedge fund positioning following the 2016 U.S. election, noting that despite most funds betting on Hillary Clinton, they profited from Trump-related trades. Key themes include core rate widening, USD strengthening, emerging market weakness, and the divergence between developed and emerging markets, with real money investors adopting defensive postures reminiscent of the Taper Tantrum period.
From: Thomas Jr., LandonSent: 11/14/2016 3:32:12 PMTo: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: Fwd: EUROPEAN MULTI ASSET COVERAGE MEETING IMPRESSIONS: Eyes on Real Money outflows; Christmas comesearly for most of macro players, hedge funds. Absolute majority bet on HRC to win, but majority still made goodmoney because ....Importance: HighThe latest thinking from London hedge fund crowd----------Forwarded message----------From: Ozan Tarman <_____________________Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:40 AMSubject: EUROPEAN MULTI ASSET COVERAGE MEETING IMPRESSIONS: Eyes on Real Moneyoutflows; Christmas comes early for most of macro players, hedge funds. Absolute majority bet on HRC to win,but majority still made good money because ....To:Classification: PublicEUROPEAN MULTI ASSET COVERAGE MEETING IMPRESSIONS: Eyes on Real Money outflows;Christmas comes early for most of macro players, hedge funds. Absolute majority bet on HRC to win, butmajority still made good money because Hillary bets worked as Trump trades.Wider, steeper core rates, stronger USD, weaker EM is the Rage. The last one, EM, is the big loser out ofTrump Reflation Theme. DM over EM and divergence within DM are very much in vogue. All gains of EMBIsince March are gone!For Rates & FX, it does feel like early days of Taper Tantrum trade of 3 years ago. Both dominated by US priceaction. In both, hedge funds have now caught the moves, play offense & ride the Trump narrative. Real Moneyis on the ropes, caught long Fixed Income/duration/carry and cannot play defense fearing Outflows.In Emerging Markets, most outflows are retail, ETF driven. All eyes on next leg of institutions. In equities,banks big winners; FANGs losing. I asked partners 2 questions. 1) Would the "this will be great for business,feel good factor" wave out-run "if real yields go up, equities are a sell" fear. Clients are torn, but the former,bullish camp wins for now, my colleagues suggest. There are skeptics though.2) In Europe, do fears over Renzi losing & Le Pen winning climb over the big momentum behind banks etc.Again, my equity team suggests, "no, reflation wave may win over Italy referendum anxiety„ for now." Renzi isnow widely expected to lose, so a "yes" would be the big surprise trade. And the bigger elephant in the room isLe Pen. If she wins in May, Europe as we know it may really shake.. But for now this is more in the radars ofEuro & EBG traders.Core rates are driven by the speed of TY sell-off. And in G5 FX, the big driver is USD/JPY. The stronger "weshould believe in Trump reflation narrative" winds are, the more USD/JPY buyers we see.Some in Research warn that Trump may succeed in "tax cuts, faster than any infrastructure spending," but fewmacro are in mood to listen. A few players believe, looking at trade weights of each with US and magnitude ofsell-off, Asia FX may have more weakness to come than MXN. Will copper/infrastructure rally eventually helpChile?HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023635Most macro love NKY, willing to love it more. Bringing it home; fast macro money players are rushing to eraselosses, year long pains through wider rates, longer USD, weaker EM, stronger equities.Real Money is in defensive, remembering Taper Tantrum days, fearing institutional outflows & forced sellingof carry hope positions.Those who want to "fade" Trump rally, seek valuation in EM, believe core rates can tighten to get a breather arein Minority.This material was prepared by a Sales or Trading function within Deutsche Bank AG or one of its affiliates(collectively "Deutsche Bank"), and was not produced, reviewed or edited by the Research Department. 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DeutscheBank transacts business with counterparties on an arm's length basis and on the assumption that eachcounterparty is sophisticated and capable of independently evaluating the merits and risks of each transactionand that the counterparty is making an independent decision regarding any transaction.This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (orhave received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Anyunauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.Please refer to https://www.db.com/disclosures for additional corporate and regulatory EU disclosures and tohttp://www.db.com/unitedkingdom/content/privacy.htm for information about privacy.Landon Thomas, Jr.Financial ReporterNew York TimesHOUSE OVERSIGHT 023636http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon jr thomas/index.htmlHOUSE OVERSIGHT 023637