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Into Emerging MarketsIdentifying Leading vs Lagging Countries in the
2020sby Tariq Dennison, +852 9476 2868
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About Tariq Dennison TEP CFPCM
§ Hong Kong & US Advisor on the IBKR platform§ US Advisor: GFM Asset Management LLC§ HK Advisor: GFM Group Limited
§ In the market since 1998§ Commerzbank (NY, London, Frankfurt)§ Bear Stearns (NY)§ J.P. Morgan (NY)§ Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce§ Societe Generale (HK)
§ Masters in Financial Engineering§ University of California at Berkeley
§ Lecturer at ESSEC Singapore§ Fixed Income§ Alternative Assets
§ Focus on US-Asia corridor§ Author “Invest Outside the Box”
“I give this book to my sales, trading, and legal teams as a great foundation to build market and product knowledge” —Bill Bamber, Managing Director, Structured Investment Products, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
“An excellent logical and explanatory guide to the assets and strategies available to investors globally” —Emanuel Derman, Columbia University
This book is a practical and concise guide to major asset classes, investment strategies, and foreign markets. For investors familiar with one “box” of investments, this book serves as a non-technical introduction to other “boxes” worth diversifying into, such as bonds, real estate, private equity, cryptocurrencies, and Chinese A-shares. Readers with no prior finance background will find this book an accessible entry point to investing. Written by a practitioner, this volume can serve as course material for introductory investing classes or as an on-the-job guidebook for professionals and practicing investors.
Tariq Dennison is a Hong Kong based fund manager and pension advisor investing retirement accounts across global stock, bond, and alternatives markets. An American raised in Europe and a long-time resident in Asia, Tariq has a lifelong natural interest in interest rates, foreign currencies, and frontier and out-of-favor markets. He has worked at Accenture, Commerzbank, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, CIBC, and Société Générale in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, London and Hong Kong, before starting GFM Asset Management in 2014. Tariq teaches fixed income and alternative investments at ESSEC Business School in Singapore, CFA Singapore, and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and a Master’s in Financial Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT ASSET
CLASSES AND STRATEGIES
INVEST OUTSIDE THE BOX
INVEST OUTSIDE THE BOX
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Fundamentals
• Breakdown of MSCI Emerging Markets Index
• Greater China vs Greater EM
• Some country and market metrics
• Bull vs Bear cases
• How MSCI Index Futures work
• Price return vs NTR futures
• Futures vs ETFs
• Sample trading strategies
Futures and Strategies
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What is EM?
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Which are the Emerging Markets in 2020?
Source: https://www.msci.com/market-classification
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Japan still outweights China in ACWI…
Source: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/8d97d244-4685-4200-a24c-3e2942e3adeb
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Current EM weights:
Source: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/c0db0a48-01f2-4ba9-ad01-226fd5678111
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Asia has been dominant weight, but also performer…
Source: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/c0db0a48-01f2-4ba9-ad01-226fd5678111
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A-share inclusion has been incremental
Source: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/8d97d244-4685-4200-a24c-3e2942e3adeb
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MSCI EM’s Top 3 @17%
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… though profitably…
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Why EM?
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Source: https://indices.barclays/IM/21/en/indices/static/historic-cape.app
CAPE Ratios by comparison…
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Source: BlackRock iShares
More detailed heatmap of MSCI EM sub-indexes
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Source: BlackRock iShares
COVID-19 also bi-furcated East Asia vs other EM…
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Futures Strategies
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Sample quotes of “classic” MSCI EM Price Index (M=50)
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… versus the Net Total Return (NTR) Index (M=100)
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… versus China Free (NTR) Index (M=50)
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Some US iShares MSCI EM Trackers…
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… vs top UCITS ones for non-US investors
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Direct Stock / ETF
• Buy with cash
• Borrow to short
• Hold as long as you wish
• FX full capital amount
• Dividend / tax issues?
• Smaller lot sizes
• Small margin requirement
• Short w/ no borrow
• Must roll monthly/quarterly
• FX only the margin
• Implied div priced in
• “Institutional” liquidity
Futures
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• Macro / sector bet on Greater China vs rest of EM
• Relative Value, relative growth
• MSCI China Free NTR and EM NTR comparable contract sizes
Risks
• Being wrong• Embedded currency
exposure• Extreme market scenario
• Pushing margin limits
L/S #1: China vs Other EM
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• Long select basket of EM stocks vs short futures (or short BTT vs long futures)
• Requires cash or margin funding of cash equity side, dividend WHT, etc.
• But futures easily provides the most efficient beta hedge, espshort side
Risks
• Your stock picks underperform
• Still need to watch margin limits
L/S #2: Stocks vs Index Future
GFM ContactTariq Dennison (德天睿)https://gfmasset.comSeeking Alpha: TARIQ DENNISONTDennison@gfmgrp.comTwitter: @QuantOfAsiaM +852 9476 2868
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