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16 May 2013
FX Blueprint: Dashing Buck
Theme la Swiss Cheese Pounded
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Swiss investors have significant underweights in
foreign assets and "safe havens" globally are
turning. Sell CHF vs USD and EUR.
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The GBP bear story is not over, in our view: basic
balance dynamics remain explosive, Carney will
stay dovish and market positioning is cleaner. Sell
GBP vs USD and EUR.
Don't Underestimate Swiss Investor
The market has been very focused on "safe-haven"
inflows into Switzerland in recent years. While these
have been big, the bigger story is the lack of outflows.
Up to 2008. bond and equity flows by Swiss investors
had been running at a 50bn CHF annual pace, mostly
recycling savings from Switzerland's large current
account surplus. The main destination has been US
and European assets, accounting for more than two
thirds of Swiss net foreign assets. This abruptly ended
after Lehman: the Eurozone crisis, narrow rate
differentials, CHF strength and very volatile equity
markets all played their part. On all these fronts, we
think things are changing however. Eurozone risk
premia have been unwound to pre-2010 levels. Risk-
adjusted equity returns are booming. The Swiss franc
has stabilized at extremely overvalued levels, and both
European and US yields have likely bottomed. We
therefore see conditions ripe for a return of the Swiss
investor to international capital markets, and believe
this will be a major driver behind Swiss franc weakness.
All Other Safe Havens Have Turned
Aside from domestic-led portfolio outflows, we don't
think the signals from the unwind of other "safe
haven" trades can be underestimated. Of all the "tail
risk" trades, we see gold as holding the most similar
properties to the Swiss franc: zero yielding, but
perceived to hold value at times of stress. With the
economy entering an environment of asset price
inflation but goods price deflation, gold has proved a
poor hedge, and we think the same holds for the Swiss
franc. Indeed, medium-term trends between the two
are similar, and combined with the huge decline in
Eurozone risk premia, we see the risks as skewed
towards an unwind of the more than 150bn of safe-
haven inflow that went into Switzerland over 2010-12.
CHF Should Participate in Dollar Turn
Finally, USD/CHF historically turns to lag turns in the
dollar cycle. Back in the 1990s, it turned together with
USD/JPY and USD/DEM. With our confidence on the
dollar outlook building and no change from the SNB on
the back of a very benign inflation outlook, we see
conditions as ripe for a breakout in both USD/CHF and
EUR/CHF targeting 1.00 and 1.27 respectively over the
rest of the year.
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