Episode #459: Louis-Vincent Gave, Gavekal – Funding Themes for 2023
Visitor: Louis-Vincent Gave is the Founding Companion and CEO of GaveKal, a number one unbiased supplier of macro analysis, and GaveKal Capital, a world asset supervisor.
Date Recorded: 12/7/2022 | Run-Time: 55:13
Abstract: In right this moment’s episode, Louis kicks it off with the largest matter in international markets right this moment – the Xi Pivot & reopening of China. He shares his outlook for the way it might have an effect on international provide chains, commodity markets, and monetary markets. He covers the case for the rising markets, why he isn’t bullish on the US, and why it could be time to rethink your portfolio development as we head into a brand new 12 months.
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Hyperlinks from the Episode:
0:39 – Sponsor: Masterworks
1:22 – Intro
2:18 – Welcome to our visitor, Louis-Vincent Gave
3:34 – Transient overview of Gavekal Capital
4:16 – The state of the worldwide financial system
6:00 – Implications of current protests in China and the Xi Pivot
13:49 – Rising attractiveness of rising markets
25:04 – The state of India’s fairness markets
28:36 – The tough actuality of US debt markets
32:52 – Gavekal analysis piece with chart referenced
35:57 – Parallels to Japan’s financial bubble and fallout within the Nineteen Eighties
38:42 – Broad allocation methods for right this moment’s inflationary atmosphere
43:15 – A view he holds {that a} overwhelming majority of his friends don’t
45:32 – Eye-opening implications of inflation world wide and throughout time; Planet Cash: Messi Economics
46:24 – The Keep Wealthy Portfolio; Meb’s ballot on protected cash
47:40 – His most memorable funding or place
51:52 – Be taught extra about Louis; gavekal.com
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Meb: Welcome podcast buddies we bought an excellent present as we wind down 2022. Our visitor is Louis-Vincent Gave founding companion and CEO of Gavekal, a number one unbiased supplier of macro analysis in Gavekal Capital a world asset supervisor. In right this moment’s episode, Louis kicks it off with the largest matter in international markets right this moment, the chief pivot and reopening of China. He shares his outlook for the way it might have an effect on international provide chains, commodity markets, monetary markets, he covers the case for rising markets, why he isn’t bullish on the U.S., and why it could be time to rethink your portfolio development as we head into a brand new 12 months. Please take pleasure in this episode with Gavekal’s Louis-Vincent Gave. Louis, welcome to the present.
Louis-Vincent: Thanks very a lot. Thanks for having me. Good to fulfill you.
Meb: The place do we discover you right this moment?
Louis-Vincent: I’m on Vancouver Island. About half-hour north of Victoria.
Meb: I bought to see your view out the window. I’m additionally searching the window here’s a stunning SoCal day. It’s slightly Pacific Northwesty you talked about you’re slightly bit inside, not Victoria waters slightly colder. The place are you?
Louis-Vincent: Yeah, I’m on a spot known as Cobble Hill, proper on the water as nicely. So we’re trying, I assume on the similar ocean, however you’re in all probability proper. It’s not precisely the identical climate it’s darkish and grey. Truly, I personal a property that was once owned 100 years in the past by Al Capone. He used to run his whiskey from right here as a result of we’re proper throughout from the San Juan Islands. So he would load up some small ships and convey whiskey over to the San Juan Islands which can be clearly U.S. owned and put the whiskey on to greater boats that might then go right down to LA and San Francisco. I’m principally within the Bahamas of the times.
Meb: You discover any Capone artifacts, any bottles of whiskey within the basement?
Louis-Vincent: No, I hoped. No previous weapons, no bottles of whiskey, no hidden stashes of cash. Nothing in any respect, no, been very disappointing. We must always have had Ronaldo come and open the basement, however no, nothing like that.
Meb: So that you spent a reasonably good period of time in Hong Kong as nicely. Lots of the group there. How do you sort of divvy up the journey as of late?
Louis-Vincent: So our agency is predicated in Hong Kong, and I spend most of my profession there. I’ve lived in Hong Kong greater than I’ve lived wherever in my life. As you level out Gavekal my firm is headquartered in Hong Kong, we have now an workplace in Beijing, we have now an workplace in Singapore. So we’re primarily an Asian agency. Earlier than COVID. I used to be form of doing half and half clearly, throughout COVID. That was unimaginable. I did return a couple of occasions and handled the quarantine and all the things else. However since then, I’ve principally been principally right here. I’m beginning to commute once more. I used to be simply again in Hong Kong for 3 weeks. Simply bought again. And now I’m right here.
Meb: All proper. So I’ve been a long-time listener anytime I see you come throughout my podcast feed or get fortunate to learn considered one of your analysis studies, I soar at it. And I’ve at all times been an enormous fan. You actually have a view that’s international, most U.S. traders, and that is establishments too they like to have the house nation bias, as does everybody actually, however you’ve a world perspective. So we’re going to speak about rather a lot right this moment. And I’m going to allow you to select the place we start, whether or not it’s U.S. or whether or not it’s China. We’re recording this mid-beginning of December 2022. What’s the world seem like as we end this 12 months?
Louis-Vincent: I feel the massive story is China’s reopening, proper? You’ve gotten the second-largest financial system on the earth that’s been stored mothballed for 3 years. Now it’s reopening. And I feel that begs a ton of questions. It’s how a lot pent-up demand is there going to be? How a lot provide chain dislocations are we going to face? What does the reopening of China inform us for the near-term political well being of the nation? I imply, there are such a lot of totally different rabbit holes, we are able to go down. However for me, that’s the massive change. And it’s all of the extra necessary change since we all know that the U.S. financial system is slowing down. In the event you have a look at most main indicators, whether or not your ISM surveys, your yield curves, your OECD main indicators, they’re all pointing to some sort of slowdown, similar story in Europe, in all probability worse in Europe. Truly. We additionally know that every time Chinese language development has actually accelerated in 2003, in 2008, in 2015, it form of triggered a rebound within the international industrial cycle, China reopening goes to result in a rebound. The query is how a lot, and is it going to be sufficiently big to set off a world rebound? That for me is an enormous query. So I feel backside line, we must always begin with China.
Meb: All proper, so I feel a variety of listeners traders say, Okay, nicely, we’ve seen this play earlier than China appears to be like like they’re going to begin to reopen and so they don’t they shut all the things down. One of many various things appears to be an indicator of this final grouping has been the protests, is that one thing from a Western media perspective is legit and actual? And is that this inflicting an actual pivot. Or is it one thing that, you already know, is simply going to get smashed down and return to lockdowns?
Louis-Vincent: No, I feel it’s inflicting an actual pivot. And right here, that’s maybe the place there’s divergence between the western view of China and the fact on the bottom. Most individuals within the Western world in all probability don’t notice this. However there are protests on a regular basis in China. They’re not lined by CNN or CNBC or anyone, as a result of the protests are sometimes about native points, polluted water, or corrupt officers, or no matter else. So you’ve a form of roadmap as to how the Chinese language authorities offers with protests. And the roadmap is they offer in as rapidly as doable, what they do is that they blame center administration. So that they’ll hearth the native mayor, hearth the celebration official, after which they offer in and so they give in as a result of essentially, the Chinese language Communist Get together owes its legitimacy from its potential to maintain social stability.
Now, I do know within the Western world, the view is, the Chinese language Communist Get together owes its legitimacy to its potential to ship the financial goodies to ship development. However that’s really not true. What the Chinese language Communist Get together prides itself on is sustaining social concord, peace, and so forth. Partly as a result of should you have a look at China’s personal historical past, from principally 1850, until 1975, it was nothing however anarchy, hyperinflation, famines, overseas invasion, Civil Conflict, it was probably the most depressing place to dwell for 125 years. So the underside line there’s an enormous premium to social stability in China huge premium. And I do know that within the Western world, once we suppose Chinese language protests, our minds instantly hark again to 1989, proper, as a result of these had been very highly effective pictures, the man blocking the tanks the scholars getting shut down. These are highly effective pictures.
So in our minds, we see this, when the protests broke out a few weeks in the past, all people thought, oh, my God there’s going to be one other Tiananmen, they’re going to ship the troops, they’re going to shoot down all people within the streets. It’s going to be horrible. In no way. As an alternative, what we’re seeing is, they’ve circled, and so they’re quickly reopening, you had an editorial within the Beijing occasions final week highlighting that, look, once we shut down, it was the precise factor to do, as a result of COVID was very lethal, however COVID isn’t very lethal anymore. We’ve had now 5000 circumstances a day in Beijing for the previous week, we’ve had zero deaths. So we are able to reopen COVID is not lethal. And that’s now principally, the message being pushed on the market.
And the one query now’s how briskly is the reopening going to occur. And what are the results? Now the excellent news is we form of have a playbook. We’ve seen reopenings. Within the U.S., we’ve seen reopenings in Europe, we’ve seen reopenings in Australia, and Brazil, wherever else. And also you’ve form of at all times seen the identical factor, huge pent-up demand, however on the similar time, and for me, that’s the massive query is if you first reopen, all people catches COVID. And it doesn’t imply you die, as a result of really, the demise fee is de facto low. However all people calls in sick. Do you keep in mind a pair summers in the past, when the U.S. reopened? It was the summer time of the canceled flights. All of the flights had been canceled as a result of the pilots had been calling in sick as a result of the stewardesses had been calling in sick, do you keep in mind you reside in LA, you had like 100 ships ready exterior of LA as a result of the dockers had been calling in sick the truckers had been calling in sick. You had huge provide chain dislocations all over the place, just because folks wouldn’t present as much as work for 2 weeks. China’s now going to expertise this. It’s important to think about that the virus goes to run by means of the nation, partly as a result of that’s what the virus does. Partly as a result of China is a really, very densely populated nation.
The landmass of China is roughly the identical because the U.S. nevertheless it’s 4 occasions the inhabitants and it’s like all people lives alongside the east coast. So it’s tremendous, tremendous densely populated. So backside line, I feel if your enterprise mannequin, let’s say your Apple, and your enterprise mannequin relies on having 100,000 staff present up and dwell in dorms on prime of one another, you’re going to have a troublesome three to 6 months, as a result of these guys are going to be sick.
Meb: Yeah. So your finest guess as you look to this, and culturally talking, accounting for the variations is that this one thing that you simply really feel like China has actually deliberate for? They’re like, all proper, we’re going to replenish on supplies. We all know that that is coming sooner or later we’re going to organize for this or is that this one thing that’s simply going to be a large surge in shopper demand that overwhelms all the things? Like, what’s the sort of implications that you simply suppose so far as markets and economies that is actually going to have?
Louis-Vincent: I want I knew. I want I knew. I do suppose China was within the path of reopening, you noticed Hong Kong already reopened, they already lowered the quantity of quarantine to return into China. So it was on this path already. So I feel that there was some stage of planning. I do consider the demonstrations have introduced all the things ahead and at an accelerated tempo, however they had been getting into that course anyway. Now, have they stockpiled commodities? Sure, I consider they’ve. As a result of should you have a look at the info, for me, one of many extra attention-grabbing information factors that no one talks about is pre-COVID, China was importing 4 billion a month price of commodities from Russia, each month, post-COVID. These previous few months, China was importing 11 billion. So nearly 3 times as a lot. You’ll have a look at this and also you suppose, how’s this occurring when there’s no development happening? When the true property markets been tanking? When clearly, all people’s caught at residence. It must be stockpiling.
And in that regards, it’s attention-grabbing that as China reopens I together with lots of people anticipated vitality costs to rally laborious. It’s like China’s consuming one million and a half barrels lower than it in any other case would. However it’s not occurring. So on the commodities entrance, I feel that they’ve stockpiled. However right here’s the opposite query. Within the U.S. when folks got here out of lockdowns, they discovered that mortgage charges had been 100 foundation level beneath the place they had been once they’d gone into lockdown. They discovered that for a similar month-to-month automotive fee, as an alternative of getting a Toyota, you would get a BMW or you would get a second automotive. And all people did that. It’s like, oh, for a similar month-to-month funds, I can get 50% extra home, oh, I’ll improve my home. After which all the things that goes together with it, I would like to purchase a brand new fridge, I would like to purchase a brand new oven, then you definitely discover out like provide chain dislocations everywhere in the store. I spotlight this as a result of whereas all over the place on the earth mortgage charges have simply gone up 200, 300, 400 foundation factors in China prior to now 12 months have gone down 150 foundation factors.
So now individuals are going to return out of lockdown. They usually’re going to seek out out that oh, my automotive fee is a lot cheaper. I can afford two automobiles as an alternative of 1. Or I can afford 50% extra condominium. So the massive query is, are they going to do this? As a result of, sure, they could have stockpiled commodities, however they didn’t stockpile Toyota automobiles. They didn’t stockpile ovens and fridges. No person does that. So if on the similar time, the Toyota manufacturing facility in China, or the Honda manufacturing facility in China doesn’t get delivered gearbox as a result of the blokes on the gearbox manufacturing facility all have COVID, then after all, you may’t ship a automotive. In case you have a automotive with no gearbox, you’ve a paperweight. And so I feel the potential for provide chain dislocation on the patron items aspect is kind of excessive. In essence, why ought to we count on China to have a unique expertise than what we had? That’d be my query. Once I say we, I imply, France or the U.S. or many of the western world, I feel as China reopens, you’re going to get the rise in demand on the one aspect, and the availability chain dislocations on the opposite. So it’s going to be doubtlessly the final COVID-linked inflationary shock to the system.
Meb: And in order we began to consider China and property in a portfolio, we tweet rather a lot about rising markets. However China particularly being the elephant of rising markets, you already know, the typical U.S. investor, should you have a look at I feel international market cap rising markets is let’s name it 13% ish is determined by should you do float-adjusted or no matter, however the common American has about 2%. I feel Goldman says in rising markets, so means underweight generally, however China and significantly on the fairness aspect, should you have a look at the valuations, it’s both at or close to the most cost effective it’s ever been going again 30 plus years the market happening 60% has a means of inflicting that to occur, after all, who’re the winners and losers? As we glance out Chinese language shares, they give the impression of being good to you they dangerous, as we glance across the implications of this, what’s the affect?
Louis-Vincent: I’d add yet another factor. Two months in the past, I used to be doing name after name with purchasers who had been asking, Is China uninvestable, which is after all what you ask earlier than it falls 60%. So I feel there’s been like, all people’s puked out China and there was a form of cathartic second with the folks’s Congress once they took out Hu Jintao and really publicly humiliated him and Xi Jinping principally monopolized all political energy. All people determined all proper I’m out. For me. That was the ultimate puke. And since then it’s been excellent news after excellent news. However you already know the luck. The underside line is China’s reopening. How do you play that you simply purchase China, I imply, let’s not beat across the bush. It’s undervalued, it’s under-owned, and you’ve got a constructive catalyst for development, constructive catalysts for earnings. And it has began to outperform. The sweetness is it’s a liquid market, it’s decently massive. There’s some fast-growing names in there. In order that’s the apparent play. However to your level, China, it’s the second largest financial system on the earth. And it’s the first supply of development for many rising markets. You have a look at the Indonesias the Thailands, the Saudi Arabias of this world, their development are more and more tied to what’s occurring in China.
And so the truth that China is now rebounding goes to be an excellent boon for all these guys. Now, it’s additionally a vital marketplace for Japan and for Europe, should you’re very reluctant to take threat, and also you suppose, I can’t belief rising market accounting, or this or that you may play by means of Japan or by means of Europe, I’ll simply spotlight one factor if we’d had this chat a 12 months in the past. And if I advised you look over the approaching 12 months, you’re going to see the Fed be way more hawkish than anyone expects. They’re going to lift charges, 400 foundation factors, or 375. However no matter, whereas the markets anticipating 150, a lot extra hawkish than anyone expects, primary, quantity two, the U.S. greenback, because of this goes to rebound very strongly, the DXY goes to go up 22% in six months, which it’s principally solely completed as soon as earlier than. And quantity three, China’s going to remain on lockdown, and a a lot more durable lockdown than anyone expects for the subsequent 12 months. If we thought {that a} 12 months in the past, we’d have stated, “Oh, my God, simply keep away from rising markets. It’s going to be a massacre,” proper? Tied to Fed, sturdy U.S. greenback, weak China. That was like a recipe for a large faceplant.
Now, apparently, prior to now 12 months, you have a look at whether or not on the bond aspect or the fairness aspect markets like Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, India, they’ve all outperformed the U.S. bond and fairness markets in spades. That is extremely uncommon, as a result of rising markets generally, they are typically the redhead stepchildren of economic markets. When issues go unhealthy, they’re the primary ones to get slapped. In Asia, the place I’ve spent most of my profession, you are taking a market like Indonesia, Indonesia is your typical market, you keep away from every time there’s a sell-off, it at all times will get bought laborious. And but this 12 months Indonesian bonds, you barely lose any cash on them. And also you really generate profits on Indonesian equities. I spotlight this as a result of for me bear markets as disagreeable as they’re on the market for a motive. They’re there to switch the management of 1 group of inventory to the subsequent. We’re within the midst of a bear market. It’s not enjoyable. No person enjoys it. However whilst you’re in a bear market, what you could do is attempt to search for the place are you seeing outperformance? And right this moment, one of many locations you’re seeing clear outperformance regardless of huge macro headwinds is rising markets.
Now, let’s quick ahead to the approaching 12 months. What are going to be the developments subsequent 12 months? Primary, by far the largest pattern, China reopens huge, crucial pattern. Quantity two, I feel there’s a superb probability the Fed is principally completed rising fairly quickly, they could have yet another fee hike after which possibly two, however that’s roughly it. Quantity three, the U.S. greenback has already began to roll over, figuring out that the Fed is getting near completed, the U.S. greenback is rolling over. So these large three headwinds to rising markets at the moment are turning into tailwinds as a result of when the U.S. greenback is weak, that’s good for rising markets. When the Fed doesn’t tighten, it’s good for rising markets. And when China is booming, that’s good for rising markets, rising markets outperformed when they need to have underperformed. So what are they going to do now? I feel it’s the place to be rising markets, the markets proper now, should you simply hearken to them, it’s telling you that is the brand new bull markets. That is the place you could deploy capital. And to your level, all people’s taking a look at it and be like, no, I’m not doing this. And People have such as you level out 2% of their property in rising markets. So that they’re going to overlook that entire first huge leg within the bull market.
Meb: One final thing on rising markets that I feel might be one of many causes significantly the massive establishments had an enormous pause, and people too was the whole Russian securities market turning into basically paused or uninvestable. Russia is basically a rounding error in comparison with China, so far as measurement with these investing markets, despite the fact that like 95% of rising market funds personal Russian shares, they give the impression of being and say, wait a minute, this can be a doable playbook for China, Taiwan. It’s laborious to ever provide you with odds however is that one thing that needs to be a severe concern from the investor standpoint is it possible unlikely consensus non-consensus what do you bought?
Louis-Vincent: It ought to however maybe not for the explanation you suppose. So first, I don’t consider for a second China’s going to invade Taiwan. They’ll’t pull it off, mounting an amphibious operation of 100 miles of sea. Hitler when he managed the entire of Europe didn’t even attempt to invade Britain, and that was simply six miles of sea. Mounting and figures, operations is the toughest factor in navy and Taiwan is a sequence of mountains that fall into the ocean. And if you have a look at the struggles that Russia is having to invade Ukraine, and that’s simply sending tanks over fields of wheat, then overlook that it’s like Taiwan isn’t going to occur. However the query is, nonetheless necessary, as a result of it highlights the underlying theme of the day, which is deglobalization. When most individuals consider deglobalization. They consider the Apple provide chain or the Nike provide chain, and whether or not that strikes again in the direction of the U.S. The way more necessary deglobalization is the deglobalization of economic flows, the truth that Russians clearly can’t spend money on wherever, however Russia now.
And if you’re a European investor, should you’re a U.S. investor, unexpectedly, you suppose, oh, possibly China is a harmful place for me to deploy capital. However that knife cuts each methods. In the event you’re Chinese language, and also you have a look at this Russian invasion, should you’ve been a wealthy man in China, for the previous 20 years, every time you made cash, you acquire a home in Vancouver, or a home in Sydney, or a home in London, you redeployed capital within the Western world, as a result of the best comparative benefit of the western world is the rule of regulation. Its property rights, it’s the truth that if I’ve an issue whether or not I’m black, brown, yellow, whether or not I’m Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, I’m going in entrance of a courtroom of regulation, in Vancouver, in London, in New York, and I’m handled equally subsequent to the subsequent man, proper? It’s all flat. Besides we’ve simply added slightly asterisk to this. We’ve stated besides should you’re Russian. In the event you’re Russian we are able to take all of your stuff, we are able to take your soccer membership, we are able to take your home in Saint Tropez, we are able to take your yachts, we are able to take your personal jets, we are able to take your home in South Kensington. And we are able to do that with none courtroom orders. With none dialogue in Parliament. We principally have the G7 world leaders get collectively over a weekend and so they resolve to do that.
Now, should you’re Chinese language, you see this, you suppose, okay, besides should you’re Russian right this moment, it could possibly be besides should you’re Chinese language tomorrow, this home in Vancouver that I purchased on the premise that it was a protected home if in case issues went fallacious in China I may at all times transfer to Vancouver. Nicely, really, this home isn’t what I feel it was it’s as a result of if issues do go unhealthy, then it may possibly get confiscated. And so following this Russian invasion, I feel we’ve undermined the largest once I say we I imply the Western world, our largest comparative benefit, the rule of regulation and the sanctity of property rights, we’ve torn that up. I don’t suppose we notice it. Once you dwell within the Western world, you don’t notice we’ve simply completed that. However from an rising market, the place you’re very attuned to those issues. Since you’re at all times apprehensive that the federal government goes to return and take your stuff. In the event you’re wealthy in China, should you’re wealthy in Saudi Arabia, you’re apprehensive the federal government’s going to return and take your stuff. Have a look at what occurred to the Saudi princes, when MBS bought to energy, proper, all of them bought to be holed up within the Ritz Carlton and principally for a shakedown.
So if you come from an rising market, at all times apprehensive about this, and the Western world was at all times the place the place you deploy capital. In the event you had been Chinese language, and you acquire homes in Australia, or the UK, you didn’t do it since you thought this could have good returns, you probably did it for the security of the capital, overlook the returns, you didn’t care concerning the return on capital, you cared concerning the security of capital. So we undermine that. And since we’ve undermined that, what’s occurred, our bond markets have collapsed, bond yields have gone by means of the roof property goes down. And right here you get to the crux of the matter, which is why I believed this deglobalization issues much more than folks suppose, however maybe for the fallacious causes. They’ve bought it backwards. You are taking a rustic just like the U.S., you are taking a rustic like my very own France, you are taking the UK, these are nations which have run for 20 years, huge twin deficits, massive commerce deficits on the one hand, massive funds deficits on the opposite, you want someone to fund that. And the way in which we funded that was by promoting property to foreigners.
The largest property we bought had been one authorities bonds and two actual estates. And we bought it to the nations that had fixed present account surpluses. The Saudi Arabias of this world, the Burhans the Qatars the Chinas the Bruneis, should you look world wide, most western democracies have massive twin deficits. Most rising markets have massive twin surpluses. So we’ve lived on this odd world the place poor nations are funding wealthy nations, and so they had been doing so due to the safety of capital. Now, should you’re China, you suppose should you’re Chinese language, I don’t wish to purchase any extra Vancouver actual property. I don’t wish to purchase any extra London or LA actual property. Now what you’re going to do is you’re going to purchase your actual property in Singapore, you’re going to purchase it in Dubai, that are actually miniscule markets. So it’s going to be some huge cash going into a really, very small place. And for me, this deglobalization of finance is maybe one of many explanations why rising markets have outperformed this 12 months when actually they shouldn’t have is the financial savings are not going to stream from rising markets to developed markets. They’re going to remain in rising markets, begging the query of, okay, how is the U.S. going to fund twin deficits price 7%, 8%, 9% % of GDP. How is the UK going to do this? The reply is that they gained’t. And so the currencies should fall.
Meb: So aside from shorting Vancouver actual property, I heard you guys point out, India has been having a pleasant run of it currently of their fairness market. They’re probably the most costly markets that we monitor, many of the nations world wide we predict are fairly cheap too low cost to screaming low cost, the U.S. is just not in that bucket, we predict they’re nonetheless fairly costly market cap weighted, however what story with India? Are they going to be a beneficiary or are they going to get harm by the China reopening?
Louis-Vincent: I feel within the quick time period, they get harm. So first, look, India is at all times costly. It’s been costly, just about my complete profession. It’s costly, as a result of it’s an thrilling story, it’s an thrilling story of a rising center class of fairly good monitor file of native entrepreneurs and utilizing capital relative to a variety of rising markets, it’s bought rather a lot going for it. Now, the one nice new benefit for India is, in each cycle India, every time oil costs rose an excessive amount of, they’d get crushed as a result of they need to import a lot of their vitality. And they also’d have a deterioration of their present account balances, which might drive the central banks to tighten, and also you’d enter a bear market, one thing new is going on in India, in that they’re attending to pay for an increasing number of of their vitality in their very own foreign money. They’re shopping for their oil from not solely Russia but additionally Iran in Indian rupees. In order that principally relieves a form of Damocles sword from over their head or not less than a form of present account constraint that was at all times there. Having stated that, I feel one of many motive India’s completed fairly nicely, is that should you’re an EM supervisor, or should you’re a Pan Asian supervisor, it’s been the one good story this 12 months, that and to some extent, Brazil, however you’ve some political uncertainty in Brazil.
So should you’re an EM supervisor, and you must go pitch your purchasers, and you’ll’t say, nicely, the place are you invested? You wish to say India, as a result of then you definitely don’t get nasty questions. In the event you say, Oh, I’m obese China, you get all types of nasty questions. Oh, however aren’t you apprehensive about Taiwan being invaded, cash being frozen, and so forth, and so forth. So, the way in which maybe, you already know, that swing video games that children have the place one goes up, the opposite goes down, and it swings like this, to me, that is how China and India are, when overseas traders resolve, can’t be in China, for no matter motive, the cash all goes to India, all of the EM cash, however then when China rebounds, the cash has to return from someplace. And initially, it comes from India. In order you have a look at China reopening, I feel the primary adjustment will probably be each rising market fund, each Pan Asian fund should promote India and purchase China. So within the close to time period, China’s reopening is just not nice information for India. However I feel when you go that section of portfolio readjustments which can in all probability take six to 9 months, then India is okay, identical to it’s not going to be an excellent six to 9 months that’s it.
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Let’s discuss slightly bit concerning the U.S. which I’ve heard you describe as for the higher a part of some time the cleanest dirtiest shirt, which is like my theme for the pandemic I really feel like of my wardrobe. What does that imply, once we’re speaking concerning the U.S. financial system? I imply, the U.S. greenback is simply romping and stopping the U.S. inventory market has been the one place to be for a greater a part of a decade. Is that coming to an finish? What do you see?
Louis-Vincent: I feel it’s already come to an finish. And I feel it was Bruce Kovner of Caxton who stated the place he’s made probably the most cash in his profession is when all people he talks to was telling him one factor, however the market was already telling him one thing else. And right this moment to your level, the final notion on the market partly due to the U.S. greenback energy is that the U.S. is the cleanest soiled shirt. It’s the one factor that may be seen in. Every thing else, Europe has bought potential vitality disaster. China is uninvestable. By default, you’re left with the U.S. So the final notion is the U.S. is the place to be however in the meantime, if you have a look at the efficiency of markets once more, you already know you’ve made cash in Brazil this 12 months. You’ve made cash in India, you’ve made cash in Mexico, you’ve made cash in Indonesia, there’s so many massive markets that did advantageous. So the market is… all people tells you oh U.S. is the cleanest soiled shirt. And in the meantime, it’s like nicely maintain on inventory market that’s down 20%. And the bond market that’s down 20% doesn’t qualify as a clear, soiled shirt, it’s only a plain soiled shirt. It’s simply soiled, and also you shouldn’t be seen in it.
So the underside line for me is, should you undertaking your self to the approaching 12 months, what’s going to be the massive story, one is China reopening. So we’ve lined that. I feel the second story for 2023 will probably be a variety of U.S. bankruptcies, through the years of straightforward cash, you had a variety of silly tasks that bought funded, and firms which can be nonetheless to at the present time burning by means of money. Now, the fact is, if by now you’re not in a constructive money stream as a enterprise, should you’re not in constructive money stream if you’ve simply had fairly a couple of quarters of principally double-digit nominal GDP development, plus 0% rates of interest, should you can’t generate profits in that atmosphere, which means you’re by no means going to generate profits. And within the coming 12 months, traders are going to allow you to go. So that you’re going to see a variety of bankruptcies within the U.S., you’re going to get right into a chapter cycle, which can imply wider company spreads.
And right here for me, that’s if you wish to be scared about one thing, for me, the story is fairly easy. In 2007, 2008, you had roughly 600 billion of triple B debt within the U.S., right this moment, you’ve about 4 trillion of triple B debt. Within the U.S., if you get to a recession, wherever from a fifth to 1 / 4 of that triple B debt sometimes will get derated to non-investment grade, now the non-investment grade market within the U.S., is round a trillion {dollars}. In the event you suppose that within the coming 12 months by means of bankruptcies, you’re going to get one other trillion added to that, it’s like who’s going to purchase this as a result of lifeless markets are extraordinarily binary, should you’re managing an funding grade fund, if one thing will get downgraded to non-investment grade, you may not maintain it. Now traditionally, what you’d do is you’d name your pleasant dealer at Goldman Sachs or your pleasant dealer at Morgan Stanley, and also you say, hey, I have to eliminate this on my e-book, are you able to guys take this from me, and you already know, Goldman would bid you I don’t know, 55 cents on the greenback. And also you’d shout at your dealer, however you’d haven’t any alternative. And that’s what funding banks did. Their worth add was to offer liquidity to the market in occasions of stress, they will’t try this anymore, since 2008. That potential of them to deliver liquidity right into a burdened market has been regulated away from them.
So that you’re going to enter right into a interval of company bond downgrades at a time when the company bond market has by no means been greater, with no liquidity supplier anymore. And that is very particular to the U.S. since you haven’t had that development of company debt elsewhere on the earth. So I feel the view that the U.S. is the cleanest soiled shirt goes to be severely, severely challenged within the coming 12 months. As a result of look, you’ve had, once more, a large enhance in company debt within the U.S. And that’s very particular, once more, to the U.S. And a variety of that debt must get repriced at a lot greater charges.
Meb: Yeah. As we have a look at form of U.S. financial system, I imply, clearly, the rates of interest ripping up and taking a look at you’ve a few of my favourite charts, if we are able to discuss you into sharing a few of these, we’ll put them within the present notes. Since you do an excellent job on laying this out with charts. I’m a visible particular person, however taking a look at a variety of your subjects. As we glance out to 2023. It seems like everybody’s obsessive about the Fed. Does Powell pivot, is the bear market over it appears to be that you simply’re… and I’m placing phrases in your mouth. However you’d say that there’s going to be extra ache, so far as it involves that view of the world. Is that correct?
Louis-Vincent: It’s. And maybe one of many slides you may share, I can deliver it up in order for you. However I’ve this desk the place I have a look at the highest 10 market caps on the finish of each decade, within the late ’70s, six of the highest 10 market caps on the earth had been vitality shares late ’80s, eight out of 10 with Japanese shares, late ’90s eight out of 10 had been telecom and Web shares 2000s It was all about how China was going to take over the world. And clearly the previous decade, it’s all been about how software program eats the world and you could be in U.S. tech, and so forth. 10 out of the highest 10 corporations are tech shares right this moment. This has been the theme now the attention-grabbing factor once I present this desk to purchasers they are saying oh yeah, the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s These had been bubbles. However right this moment, that’s not a bubble. These guys generate nice money flows. They’ve quasi-monopoly conditions, which supplies them the flexibility to bully governments. It’s very totally different this time. There’s this perception to your level, all people’s speaking concerning the Fed pivot. All people you discuss to says oh, nicely, I would like to attend for the Fed to chop rates of interest once more.
After which I can return to purchasing Amazon and return to purchasing Tesla and return to purchasing Fb. As quickly as that occurs. Neglect it. Neglect it. That bubble has now imploded. The markets already shifting on to one thing else to me sitting round ready all day for the Fed to chop rates of interest so I can purchase Fb once more, makes about as a lot sense as being in Tokyo in 1992. And considering oh, when is the BOJ going to chop so I can purchase financial institution of Tokyo Mitsubishi once more? You had some nice rallies in Japan by means of the ’90s. And you already know, you would commerce these rallies, however you wish to play the basic developments and never lots of people made cash, and despite the fact that you had massive rallies, not lots of people made cash in Japan within the ’90s as a result of structurally, you had been in a bear market. Once more, bear markets are there for a motive. We’re in a bear market, bear markets are there to alter the management, the bear markets 2011, it allowed to alter management from all the things’s about China to all the things’s about U.S. tech. For me, the bear markets we’re in now’s telling us time to alter the management.
And by the way in which, when the Fed cuts certain you’ll get a rally in Fb and in Google and all the things else. However it is going to mark the beginning gun for the huge outperformance of rising markets. From the second the Fed cuts, the U.S. greenback will actually faceplant. That is when it’ll develop into apparent to folks that truly many of the development on the earth over the subsequent decade goes to happen in rising markets. And that is the place you could be. So the Fed pivot does matter. And I feel as you get monetary accidents within the U.S. in 2023, you will notice that Fed pivot, however to me, it gained’t be an indication of oh, let’s return to the earlier winners.
Meb: I imply, the illustration of Japan alone, we talked rather a lot about it on the present, not simply because I prefer to ski in Japan and hopefully get to revisit this 12 months after a few years of not going and we’re getting a pleasant low cost on the yen.
Louis-Vincent: Very good low cost.
Meb: Proper. The instance you give is so true. I imply, have a look at the ’80s I imply, it was 30 years on a complete return foundation earlier than that market bought its head again above water. I’ve been attempting to inform traders, as a lot as I really like shares for the long term, it’s going to be rather a lot longer than you suppose.
Louis-Vincent: Nicely, so apparently, in Japan, within the ’80s, a variety of the bubble was round actual property and naturally, banks. In the event you really strip out the banks from the index, if you bought to 1989 10 of the highest 10 banks on the earth had been Japanese. The Japanese banks alone with 25% of the world MSCI simply the Japanese banks, Japan was 45% of the world MSCI. I spotlight this as a result of sure, as soon as the bubble imploded, all the things collapsed, and so forth. However should you strip out the banks from the index, really, the index didn’t take 30 years to make a brand new excessive, it got here again fairly rapidly. As a result of that was actually the form of central level of the bubble, proper? So I spotlight this as a result of within the U.S., I feel the place the bubble was in tech funding any enterprise mannequin that was pretended to be tech, the WeWorks, the Past Meats, the Pelotons, all these items, you strip that half out. And I feel the U.S. will come again very quick. It’s simply that tech is 30% of the benchmark now, however you strip that half out the remaining as a result of the remainder of the U.S. will do okay. The one hurdle for the industrials and so forth. Now could be the sturdy greenback because the sturdy greenback rolls over, there’s no motive the John Deere’s and the Caterpillars of this world can’t go on happening.
Meb: Nicely, you’re talking proper to the center of a worth investor. However we discuss rather a lot about this, we are saying look, a variety of the occasions worth investing is okay. And everybody focuses on the worth half you’re shopping for low cost shares, otherwise you’re shopping for an asset. However equally as necessary to that complete technique is you’re avoiding the actually loopy costly stuff. And the issue with market cap weighting traditionally has been there’s no tether to worth. So if you do have these large booms, the actually costly stuff goes nuts. So Japan within the ’80s, my favourite bubble U.S. late ’90s. So simply avoiding that sitting that out means you hopefully get to outlive one other day. And we discuss rather a lot about how we predict, even inside the U.S. proper now worth or simply something aside from the junk on the prime might be in all probability a completely advantageous place to be. However that’s one of many massive weaknesses of market cap weighting. And traditionally why we are saying it’s advantageous, however not optimum for us.
Louis-Vincent: And by the way in which on this, I feel the equal cap weighted has been beating the crap out of the market cap weighted proper. And that’s regardless of the Apples outperformance should you did it ex Apple, it might actually beat the pants out of it.
Meb: Yeah, you had an excellent quote the place you had been speaking principally the period arising goes to be the return to the imply investor, the place you’re beginning to have this reversion. As we glance out, you had an excellent slide the place you’re speaking about varied rugby gamers and the way they complement one another People we are able to speak about basketball group level guard, middle, or no matter it could be. As we take into consideration, you already know, portfolio traits. We’re going to in all probability print one of many worst conventional portfolio years ever for many inventory and bond traders within the U.S. We did a ballot, we stated are you down on the 12 months? And it’s like 90% stated, yeah, and it’s like 90% of ETFs are down. And we glance out into the long run. So we bought the China half in rising markets. Anything that we didn’t speak about that you simply suppose are attention-grabbing areas to plug into the portfolio or to keep away from as nicely?
Louis-Vincent: Yeah, completely. So to your level, I feel there’s essentially 3 ways to generate profits in markets. You both run a return to the imply technique, you run a momentum technique, otherwise you run a carry commerce technique. Once you placed on a commerce, it’s crucial that you already know what that man is doing for it. To your level. It’s like placing a group collectively, proper? You talked about basketball. You don’t count on your level guard to be the very best rebounder in your group. You don’t count on your middle to shoot a bunch of threes. I imply, in the event that they do, it’s nice. However that’s not their job. That’s not why you set them on the courtroom within the first place. And in order you construct your portfolio, I feel it’s crucial to know, okay, if I purchase this, what am I shopping for it for? Is that this a return to the imply commerce, momentum commerce, carry commerce, as a way to choose if he’s doing their job or not? Once more, you’re not going to guage the purpose guard on his potential to rebound. I spotlight this as a result of for most individuals, you acquire authorities bonds for his or her antifragile traits, you acquire them considering, nicely, if my fairness is down 20%, then my bonds will probably be up 10. In order that’s their job. And that job has failed massively this 12 months.
The massive failure in most individuals’s portfolio, whether or not you’re a pension fund, an endowment, a personal investor, and so forth, isn’t as a lot as equities went down 20%, that’s a part of the mannequin, I’d say, you purchase equities, you settle for that you simply is perhaps down 20%, the half that has failed is that bonds haven’t completed their job. Now, the fascinating factor to me is that we must always acknowledge this, it’d be like a degree guard who can’t shoot free throws, who went 0 for 10 on the free throw line. In the event you’re the coach you’d sub him out, it’s okay, you already know what you’re out. You’ve misplaced it, you don’t have it. However should you present up right this moment, to no matter wealth administration agency you wish to present as much as, they’re going to present you a pleasant questionnaire, and so they’re going to say, oh, you’re a conservative investor. So we’ll put 60% in bond 40% in fairness, oh, you’re an aggressive investor, we’ll do 60% in fairness, 40% in bonds, and then you definitely inform them maintain on. This hasn’t labored for 2 years now. However folks nonetheless handle cash the identical means. As a result of it’s like, nicely, it labored for 25 years. So hopefully it goes again to working. What if it by no means works once more? What if bonds and equities at the moment are positively correlated, as a result of we’re now in a structurally inflationary atmosphere, then you could utterly rethink your portfolio development.
And I don’t suppose individuals are doing that but. I imply, once more, you continue to go to the wealth advisory companies, you continue to get the identical questionnaire you had been getting two years in the past, and you continue to get broadly the identical asset allocation. They usually’re simply sitting there crossing their fingers that the previous two years had been an anomaly. What if it’s the new regular? What if that is now the world we dwell in, then you could discover totally different property which can be anti-fragile, totally different property that shield your fairness draw back.
Now, in an inflationary atmosphere, you could principally get property that profit from inflation, not get property that get harm by inflation, property that profit from inflation are, after all, commodities, it’s vitality, it’s rising markets, it’s all of the issues that truly did diversify your portfolio a 12 months in the past, and my portfolio, I’m loaded up with vitality, I’ve a lot vitality, and it’s not been doing nicely these previous few weeks. However I nearly don’t care as a result of I’ve different stuff that’s doing nicely, proper now, most notably, all my China stuff, it’s ripping greater. So my China stuff is ripping greater, my vitality stuff is doing badly. It’s okay if tomorrow, vitality costs undergo the roof, my China stuff will unload, however my vitality stuff will do nicely, once more, what would you personal bonds for OECD authorities bonds for? Who’s going to purchase these from you at the next worth? For what motive? And why ought to portfolios nonetheless have 40%, 50% constructed round these? To me, these are the questions traders needs to be asking themselves.
Meb: Yeah, I imply, at all times like considering again traders to why you personal an asset is such a fundamental, but additionally essential perception to work by means of and occupied with what function they play, and never simply assuming that. I imply, bonds are such an excellent instance, should you research historical past for previous 100-plus years, you already know, bonds don’t at all times hedge when shares do poorly, typically they do. However typically they present as much as the Christmas celebration, they drink an excessive amount of. And that’s that, sorry. That’s who you get your loopy cousin displaying up this 12 months. As we begin to wind down, what’s the view you maintain that say 75% plus to the overwhelming majority of the skilled investing world doesn’t maintain could possibly be proper now or it may simply be on a regular basis, something coming to thoughts?
Louis-Vincent: The view I’d maintain proper now that most individuals don’t maintain is how, excuse my French, however how screwed as an asset class the OECD authorities bonds are and the way they’ve benefited from fixed inflows from rising markets. And the way that’s now structurally completed. A view I maintain very dearly is we’ve utterly undermined within the Western world, our single largest comparative benefit, you already know what we talked about, and that that is going to be mirrored in decrease and decrease asset costs, particularly for the asset costs which can be perceived to be protected i.e. bonds in actual property. I feel these two asset courses are nearly condemned asset courses within the Western world. And we did this to ourselves like that is what’s so infuriating, is we did this to ourselves.
So my agency perception, I assume, to sum it up is the property you suppose are protected, are far much less protected than you suppose they’re and the property that you simply suppose are unsafe, are in all probability a lot safer than you suppose they’re. Folks’s notion of security is totally fallacious. And partly as a result of folks equate security with volatility, and should you have a look at intervals which have nations which have gone by means of inflation, should you had your cash in actual property or in bonds in Argentina, or in Brazil once they had massive inflation, or in Zimbabwe or South Africa or wherever else, you bought cleaned out, should you held equities, you really did okay. It was unstable. However over the course of the cycle, you continue to did okay. So I feel the view I maintain dearly is definitely equities. At present, given the macro atmosphere, equities are a lot safer than bonds.
Meb: There’s a pair feedback one was, I listened to a superb podcast this week known as Messi Economics, nevertheless it was speaking concerning the perspective was an Argentine reporter, and I feel it was on NPR was the present observe hyperlinks listeners, the place an Argentine reporter talked about her childhood in Argentina, after which additionally sort of overlaid the expertise of the soccer participant Messi and sort of a variety of classes about inflation and simply shifting out of Argentina and the flight from huge inflation. It’s a very eye-opening, I feel, for lots of traders, significantly within the U.S. who haven’t even thought of inflation, even in any respect in 30-plus years, and the overwhelming majority of investing managers who’re managing cash right this moment have by no means actually skilled an inflationary atmosphere. In the event you do, you’re in all probability 70. And nobody’s listening to you anymore anyway. So that you’re out enjoying golf, however we did a put up through the pandemic known as the Keep Wealthy Portfolio. And I like to do polls on Twitter to ask folks questions, and simply to sort of pro-sentiment. One in all them is like, what do you do together with your protected cash? And everybody the idea is T-bills or bonds, proper? And we stated, you hit on the examples, so correct, which is folks have a look at that on a nominal and volatility foundation.
However after inflation, we are saying how a lot do you suppose T-bills or bonds have declined prior to now on an actual drawdown foundation? Most individuals say like zero to 10%, few loopy, say 10 to twenty, you already know, and the reply is over 50, proper? And so you may have a look at, you undergo a thought experiment. And what we did is we checked out a world portfolio of worldwide shares, international actual property, and bonds, and then you definitely combine that in with some money. And you’ll’t say show in our world, however you exhibit, traditionally talking, that’s really a safer, protected cash portfolio than simply sitting in T-bills and bonds, which is what everybody does, and each company on the earth does.
So anyway, that’s positively in my non-consensus views as nicely. And I don’t know actually many individuals that consider that in addition to me, however enjoyable thought experiment to undergo. Additionally why there’s so many yachts in Argentina, should you go down there, and varied locations in Latin America, should you look again in your profession, what has been your most memorable funding, it could possibly be good or unhealthy. And you can even say, your most memorable name or place that you simply’ve had, through the years, there’s going to be 1000’s of them, I’m certain however something come to thoughts?
Louis-Vincent: I don’t suppose 1000’s I feel a profession is made from three or 4 calls, to be sincere. And should you get three or 4 proper, you’ve had a reasonably good profession, for me, when it comes to studying curve, each but additionally, frankly, money-making alternative after the 2008 mortgage disaster. As a agency, we regarded on the monetary scenario of most European nations, and we thought, the Euro is just not going to be sustainable. All these European nations have needed to subject huge quantities of debt to backstop their banks. And the market can’t carry that a lot debt. So that they’re going to hit the wall. So I teamed up with an excellent buddy of mine known as Mark Hart, and we arrange a fund known as the European Divergence Fund. And we did two issues. We purchased a bunch of CDS, credit score default swaps on Greece, Portugal, and so forth, on the premise that credit score spreads would widen.
And we purchased a bunch of places on the euro. And the premise stated that the euro would tank. What was baffling was, we made a bunch of cash on the credit score default swaps, and we misplaced a bunch of cash on the Euro places as a result of few folks keep in mind this, however principally between 2009 and 2011, the Euro went from 120 to 150. And it was very seen that Europe was hitting the wall, you already know, Greece was going bankrupt, Italy was in dire straits. And as all this was occurring, the Euro stored rising. I used to be like, What the hell is occurring? Why am I getting my face ripped off over right here being quick, the euro, the enjoyable in it, I’m making advantageous as a result of we made numerous cash on the credit score default swaps. However we additionally misplaced a bunch on the euro. And I used to be speaking about it with my dad who ran a macro agency within the ’80s and ’90s. And he advised me, it is best to have tried being quick Japan within the ’90s. As a result of by 1990, it was apparent that Japan had hit the wall. So he went quick, the Nikkei, and he went quick, the yen and the quick Nikkei labored advantageous. And the yen went from 150 to 85 in 1994. So which means it’s going up. So the yen rose massively.
So in the long run, you undergo these episodes and also you suppose okay, really, when nations hit monetary stress, you’d suppose the foreign money would go down, however you may have a interval the place the foreign money really shoots up as pension funds repatriate capital as banks repatriate capital as insurance coverage corporations repatriate capital, as all people brings a reimbursement from overseas to plug the holes, and there’s no one on the opposite aspect, then the foreign money can simply go up in a vacuum. That’s what we noticed in Europe in 2010, 2011. That’s what we noticed in Japan in 91, 92, 93. I spotlight this as a result of all people appears to be like on the U.S. greenback as an indication of energy right this moment. However may it’s a consequence of the bear market? The U.S. has simply had you lose 20% on equities us 20% on bonds. In the event you’re a U.S. pension fund should you’re a U.S. insurance coverage firm, are you bringing a reimbursement to form of plug the home holes and as you do. You get these parabolic strikes within the foreign money. I have a look at the U.S. greenback and I ponder is that this an indication of energy or an indication of weak point with issues on the opposite aspect.
So for me, that was one which European divergence commerce was an enormous factor in my profession. The second massive factor in my profession was China, determined to principally open a bond market in 2011. I noticed this as an enormous alternative for our agency, I believed, how typically am I going to be in the identical beginning blocks as Schroeder’s as PIMCO as Constancy, they’ve as a lot of a monitor file on Chinese language printing as I do, which is none as a result of the market didn’t exist. So we constructed a reasonably good Chinese language fixed-income franchise. And we did so partly on the premise that if China was going to do that, they wished to do it nicely. And our wager was that Chinese language bonds would outperform most bond markets over any interval. And should you have a look at the previous 10 years, 5 years, three years, Chinese language authorities bonds have outperformed U.S. Treasuries, JGBs. Since you had huge authorities help to that markets. And so one of many issues I realized is, particularly relating to bonds, particularly relating to currencies, you don’t wish to underestimate the energy of presidency. By the previous 10 years, all people was telling you, the renminbi goes to break down can’t spend money on China can’t spend money on Chinese language bonds, and it was the best-performing market.
Meb: Nicely stated, Louis, the place do folks discover you? They wish to learn a few of your work. Hear some extra of your soothing voice, what’s the perfect place to go?
Louis-Vincent: Thanks very a lot. Nicely, the perfect place to go is our web site. We have now an internet site. It’s gavekal.com, gavekal.com. And from there, we do various things. We have now a personal wealth arm, we have now an institutional cash administration arm, we have now a analysis arm, so wherever folks wish to go, they will direct themselves from there, however that’s in all probability the perfect place. We do have a Gavekal Twitter feed, however you may form of maintain updated with some stuff there. I don’t actually put up on Twitter or something. I don’t have a lot of a social media presence. So the perfect factor is the web site.
Meb: Or you may comply with his Twitter account for some good charts and get your fingers on as a result of they’re nice. Louis, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us right this moment.
Louis-Vincent: Completely. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
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