It might be time to consider the ‘most hated, under-owned asset class,’ says this strategist

It might be time to consider the ‘most hated, under-owned asset class,’ says this strategist It might be time to consider the ‘most hated, under-owned asset class,’ says this strategist Vincent Deluard, of StoneX, said the U.K. still has some "good assets." A disliked corner of the stock market really isn’t as bad as it seems, according to StoneX. U.K. equities are “the most hated, under-owned asset class in the world,” Vincent Deluard, head of global macro strategy at the New York-headquartered financial services company, said in a recent episode of the Maggie Lake Talking Markets podcast. The U.K. was once the global center of finance and trade, and for Deluard, “there are still good assets.” He outlined that British defined benefit pension schemes went from once having 50% exposure to local equities, to today, an average of more like 5%.

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However, he said long positions in U.K. equities could be worth pairing with one trade he does recommend: shorting the euro against the yen He explained that the yen has benefited from devaluation and the Bank of Japan keeping interest rates at or less than zero for about 25 years. Deluard recommended shorting the euro because for him, it currently faces similar obstacles to the yen in the 2010s, which he said can likely only be fixed by a “massive depreciation.” The difference is that he thinks the process will be messier in Europe, which is facing increased political polarization. He said “the cancer” of the next sovereign-debt crisis is in “the heart” of the bloc, in between France, where both the far-left and far-right are rising in popularity, and Germany, where the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is gaining traction.

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