Bloomberg
Published Apr 02, 2018 01:41
Updated Apr 02, 2018 23:00
SocGen Warns of Late-Cycle Volatility Bursts in Months Ahead
(Bloomberg) -- Volatility may be here to stay -- but there’s a lot investors can do to prepare for it.
“Hedges against late cycle volatility bursts in credit, dispersion and cross-asset volatility as the equity/bond correlation itself becomes more volatile” are one key theme in Societe Generale (PA:SOGN) SA’s second-quarter outlook from strategists led by Kokou Agbo-Bloua, the firm’s head of flow strategy and solutions. The outlook was published March 30.
The report, titled “Macro ‘Black Mirror”’ after a U.K. television series that looks at unanticipated consequences of technology, warns that advances such as algorithmic trading are exacerbating trading issues with “profound distortions in market liquidity or the illusion thereof,” citing the volatility spiral in early February as an example.
The strategists also say that 2018 will be the first year since 2009 when net inflows of liquidity provided by all central banks will turn negative, setting the stage for regime change in both correlations and cross-asset volatility and risk premia.
The report’s suggested volatility-related trades include:
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