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Podcast: Beyond Consumers’ Cumulative Misery

Neil Azous, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rareview Capital joined Andrew Wilkinson of Interactive Brokers to discuss explains the inevitable reality of how bond market participants price in interest rate cuts even before the Fed’s tough love for the market is done.

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We know that based on what’s priced into the yield curve that the last interest rate hike is expected in December of this year and you can keep going down this rabbit hole and saying, “OK, well the quickest that the Fed ever cut an interest rate is 1.4 months” or “The average that they cut after the last hike is 6 1/2 months” or “The longest that they took after the last interest rate hike is 14.7 months.” And then finally you can add in one more input that just says something like this “What’s the speed at which they cut the interest rate?”

Podcast: The Gigantism of the Federal Reserve

Neil Azous, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rareview Capital joined Andrew Wilkinson of Interactive Brokers to discuss how the Fed might fight inflation in an economy in which fiscal and monetary issues have become joined at the hip.

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“If you fast forward, and you see how the world has changed now, when you respond in a war-like fashion, you start to mobilize the fiscal side of things in a lot more robust way. So, whether that’s the deficit, or the administration playing a greater role through executive powers, or the Treasury doing things such as in response to the Russia-Ukraine War regarding sanctions and the confiscation of assets, the overall point is in the past, we had three policymakers, Andrew, or two or three at the Fed that were really driving policy, globally. If you fast forward now, we probably got five to 10 people in the administration, an entire Congress of 400 people, you know, et cetera, and so we basically have 500 chefs in the kitchen. So, by default, we now just have an elevated volatility environment because of the introduction of fiscal activity that is now playing such an outsized role.”

Rareview Capital’s Dynamic Fixed Income CEF Strategy Wins Fixed Income Strategy of the Year at SMArtX 2022 Virtual Awards

Rareview Capital’s Dynamic Fixed Income CEF Strategy Outperformed 62 Peers on the SMArtX Advisory Solutions Turnkey Asset Management Platform

Rareview Capital is honored to have our Dynamic Fixed Income CEF Strategy win the Fixed Income Strategy of the Year on the SMArtX Advisory platform.

Winners were selected across 11 categories from among 978 eligible strategies available on the SMArtX UMA platform, based on annual data collected for the period ending December 31, 2021. The 11 awards categories were grouped by market cap, investment methodology, and direct indexes. The winning strategies were scored on a weighted, quantitative system where Rareview Capital’s Dynamic Fixed Income CEF strategy outperformed 62 of its peers to bring home the award.

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Rareview Capital’s Dynamic Fixed Income CEF Strategy & Municipal Bond CEF Strategy Named Finalist in SMArtX Virtual Awards

Rareview Capital is honored to have our Dynamic Fixed Income CEF Strategy and Municipal Bond CEF Strategy named as a finalist for the Fixed Income Strategy of the Year on the SMArtX Advisory platform.

Each year, SMArtX Advisory Solutions highlights the leading investment firms on the platform through a quantitative screening process, resulting in the SMArtX Virtual Awards. With almost 1,000 strategies in the running this year, SMArtX has created 11 categories and selected 33 finalists. The winner will officially be announced on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Bloomberg – Muniland – Episode 1

Bloomberg released their inaugural municipal bond podcast, hosted by Municipal Strategist Eric Kazatsky. Rareview Capital’s CIO, Neil Azous, was pleased to be the first guest. Below is a LINK to listen to the interview.

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US-China Series – Investing Transformed – Interview with Neil Azous

Rareview Capital’s CIO, Neil Azous, was interviewed by Paul Krake, the Founder of the multi-asset thematic research firm View from the Peak and live streaming platforms, US-China Series, and Climate Transformed.

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Rareview Capital Added To SMArtX Advisory Solutions UMA Platform

SMArtX Advisory Solutions (“SMArtX”), a leading innovator in unified managed accounts (UMA) technology and architect of the SMArtX turnkey asset management platform (TAMP), is pleased to announce the expansion of its UMA Platform with the addition of six new firms and thirteen additional strategies for April.

The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk

In The Global Macro Edge, John Netto pulls back the curtain to reveal the tools and techniques he’s used to identify and solve the largest problems facing investors, traders, and financial advisors today at a level of transparency rarely seen in books on investing. The Global Macro Edge includes chapters from a talented team of market practitioners, including Neil Azous, who wrote Chapter 12 – Using Options to Trade the Macro Narrative.

Derivatives Are Replacing Bonds as Some Fund Managers’ New Hedge

Neil Azous, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rareview Capital was quoted several times in this featured story from Bloomberg.

“In no way, shape, or form should options-based strategies alone be seen as acting as a ballast in a portfolio to balance the risk profile,” said Neil Azous, founder and chief investment officer of Rareview Capital in Las Vegas. Besides being risky and hard to execute, he says, derivatives fail to provide guaranteed income and “are just one of many possible solutions, none of which is a be-all-end-all.”

Rising Rates Are ‘Most Impending Danger’ To Market

Neil Azous, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rareview Capital was interviewed by Chuck Jaffe on Money Life.

Neil Azous, chief investment officer at Rareview Capital, says that 10-year real US interest rates — which have been on the rise recently and which jumped on Thursday — are ‘the most impending danger’ to investor portfolios. He says the market is now acting as if the pandemic is nearly over and says that investors need to be thinking of the big economic themes beyond the re-opening, including the changing rate picture.