‘Brace, brace’: quants say soft landing is unlikely
Investors should prepare for sticky inflation and volatile asset prices as central banks grapple with turning rates cycle
“A lot of investors are getting carried away by the hope that there will be a soft landing. We’re not buyers of that,” says Jan de Koning, portfolio manager of quantitative equities at $200 billion asset manager Robeco.
Nor are plenty of others in the quant investing community.
A soft landing, or a gradual slowdown in major economies, involves central banks raising interest rates just enough to tame inflation but not so much as to spark a damaging recession. Pull the lever too far in one
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