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Investment Insights are written by Angeles' CIO Michael Rosen
Michael has more than 30 years experience as an institutional portfolio manager, investment strategist, trader and academic.
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Published: 02-06-2015My quarterly letter talks about the strength of the US dollar and why it should continue to rise (see Chart below), but I wanted to note here the huge impact currencies have had on investors in the past year.
Since January 2014, US equities are up 13%. But so are European equities, and Japanese stocks are close behind (+10%). However, these numbers are in local currencies, and the euro is off 20% and the yen off 12% against the dollar this past year, so, for a US investor, in dollar terms, European equities are not up 13%, but are actually down 7%, and Japanese stocks are not up 10% but down 2%. Conversely, European investors enjoyed a 37% gain in US stocks last year (13% + 20% + compounding) and Japanese investors saw a 27% increase. From a US perspective, the gap in returns between US and European stocks is as wide as we’ve seen in over 50 years (see Chart below).
With this sort of divergence in performance, it is reasonable to look for a reversal: US stocks to underperform non-US markets. Yet, for all the reasons I noted in my quarterly letter, the US dollar could appreciate further, especially in the context of the first graph, above, where it is still relatively low historically. Dollar strength is a headwind for non-dollar assets, which I suspect will continue to blow.
Whether the dollar continues to strengthen or turns around, US markets surge to new relative highs or mean-revert, I think caution is probably in order: take modest bets and watch them closely.
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