CH Investment & Economic Strategy Lunch 2023

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Slide 1: Investment & Economic Strategy Lunch Cameron Harrison
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Slide 2: Speakers
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Slide 3: Cameron Harrison Strategy The Lucky Muddling Country
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Slide 4: Reason #1: Monetary Policy isn’t what it used be…
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Slide 5: Reason #1: Monetary Policy isn’t what it used be…
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Slide 6: Reason #1: Monetary Policy isn’t what it used be…
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Slide 7: Reason #2: Population Growth provides sugar hit to GDP
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Slide 8: What Comes Next?
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Slide 9: #1 China: The Other Hard Landing
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Slide 10: #2 Inflation will be Structurally Higher
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Slide 11: #3 Fiscal to Dominate Monetary Policy
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Slide 12: Implications for Financial Markets & Investors?
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Slide 14: Minack Advisors The cycle will get worse before it gets better
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Slide 15: The cycle will get worse before it gets better But there will be great opportunities in the next cycle!
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Slide 16: Outline
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Slide 17: Outline
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Slide 18: Policy makers focused on controlling the biggest inflation breakout in 40 years
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Slide 19: The nub of the inflation problem is now service sector prices (US)
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Slide 20: The nub of the inflation problem is now service sector prices (Australia)
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Slide 21: Wages are normally the key to service sector inflation (US)
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Slide 22: Wages are normally the key to service sector inflation (Australia)
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Slide 23: How far will unemployment need to rise to slow wage growth?
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Slide 24: Wages are starting to slow without unemployment rising!
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Slide 25: Wage/unemployment trade-off hasn’t changed in Australia
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Slide 26: Rising labour supply will help damp wage growth in Australia
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Slide 27: Temporary support for growth #1: excess savings
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Slide 28: Temporary support for growth #2: unusual long rate behaviour
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Slide 29: Temporary support for growth #3: unusual consumer behaviour
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Slide 30: Temporary support for growth #3: unusual consumer behaviour
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Slide 31: Temporary support for growth #3: unusual consumer behaviour
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Slide 32: Temporary support for growth #4: unusual fiscal policy
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Slide 33: Monetary policy is now tight, so growth will slow
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Slide 34: Australian income growth slumps
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Slide 35: Running down the saving buffer
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Slide 36: Some of the excess saving was used to pre-pay mortgages
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Slide 37: What were excess payments are now required payments
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Slide 38: The mortgage cliff: the re-setting fixed rate mortgage schedule
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Slide 39: Outline
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Slide 40: Equities and downturns
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Slide 41: Equities and downturns: equities always sell off in a recession
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Slide 42: Equities and downturns: sometimes equities sell off without a downturn
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Slide 43: Equities and downturns: equities are not very far-sighted
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Slide 44: The landing – soft or hard – matters for equities
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Slide 45: This year’s rally is pricing in next year’s soft landing
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Slide 46: Outline
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Slide 47: What changes – More capex #1: more resilience
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Slide 48: What changes – More capex #2: more defense
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Slide 49: What changes – More capex #3: climate mitigation
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Slide 50: What changes – More capex #4: more infrastructure
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Slide 51: What changes – More capex #5: more labour-replacing investment
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Slide 52: What changes – More fiscal, which means V-shaped cycles
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Slide 53: Investing in the next cycle #1: lower safe asset returns
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Slide 54: Investing in the next cycle #2: equity-bond correlation flips
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Slide 55: Investing in the next cycle #3: financial leverage will be much less attractive
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Slide 56: The nuanced relationship between rates & equity valuation
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Slide 57: Japanese equities de-rated with zero rates
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Slide 58: The essential bubble ingredient: high EPS expectations
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Slide 59: 15 years of no gains for global equities (ex-US)
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Slide 60: Post-GFC US out-performance driven by EPS, not rates (or QE)
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Slide 61: Post-GFC US out-performance driven by EPS, not rates (or QE)
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Slide 62: US EPS growth was narrowly based
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Slide 63: The US was the valuation exception over the past cycle
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Slide 64: Investing in the next cycle #4: equity leadership change
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Slide 65: Investing in the next cycle #4: equity leadership change
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Slide 66: Investing in the next cycle #4: equity leadership change
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Slide 67: Investing in the next cycle #5: blessed are the goods makers
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Slide 68: Investing in the next cycle #5: blessed are the goods makers
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Slide 69: Investing in the next cycle #5: blessed are the goods makers
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Slide 70: Investing in the next cycle #5: blessed are the goods makers
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Slide 71: Investing in the next cycle #5: blessed are the goods makers
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Slide 72: Investing in the next cycle #6: it may pay to be active, not passive
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Slide 73: Investing in the next cycle #6: it may pay to be active, not passive
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Slide 74: Investing in the next cycle #6: it may pay to be active, not passive
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Slide 75: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 76: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 77: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 78: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 79: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 80: Investing in the next cycle
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Slide 81: Key point #1: there will be a landing, soft or hard, but no landing makes no sense
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Slide 82: Key point #2: equities are pricing in a soft landing
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Slide 83: Key point #3: equity leadership is set to change
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Slide 84: Minack Advisors
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