
Presenting The 3 “Transitions” That Will Shape Markets In 2017
Not everyone likes to talk about (let alone read about) macro.
I'll go out on a limb here: to the extent investors exhibit an aversion to macro analysis, their revulsion stems from an unwillingness to think too hard. Yes, predicting macro outcomes with any degree of accuracy is largely impossible. But that doesn't make macro pointless.
Indeed it's through the study of macro that we derive hypotheses about tail events and black swans. Needless to say, hedging tail risk is critical when it come