Today, Chairwoman Yellen brilliantly communicated the FOMC’s outlook on further Fed tightenings. She reiterated, the committee “expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate" and added, “economic and financial conditions remain less favorable than they did back at the time of the December FOMC meeting.” Furthermore, by acknowledging the US economy is affected by globalization, the Fed recognizes their monetary policy affects the global economy and how the global economy impacts the US economy. As the Fed further discusses the effects of globalization, they begin to acknowledge the global deflationary pressures on the US economy. Which we view as positive and bullish for asset prices. Janet Yellen further goes on to acknowledge, “the evidence on balance indicates that the economy's "neutral" real rate--that is, the level of the real federal funds rate that would be neither expansionary nor contractionary if the economy was operating near its potential--is likely now close to zero.” After writing our whitepaper Near-Zero Monetary Policy, we believe the natural and optimal rate for short term interest rates in a global economy is 0%.

It is clear from Janet Yellen’s comments she still believes the impact of monetary policy is linear, rather than nonlinear as we have demonstrated, because she believes, “with the federal funds rate so low, the FOMC's ability to use conventional monetary policy to respond to economic disturbances is asymmetric.” In fact, the closer Fed Funds are to 0%, the greater the monetary impact of a basis point move, as demonstrated by our nonlinear equation, (basis point move / fed funds). In short, as Fed Funds get closer to 0%, the nonlinear relationship becomes more evident as a smaller basis point move has the same monetary impact of a large basis point move when Fed Funds are at higher rates. In sum, the nonlinear impact of monetary policy as it approaches zero cancels out the asymmetry relationship that Janet Yellen speaks of. In truth, we see Janet Yellen’s asymmetric argument as an excuse not to tighten too quickly.

Though Janet Yellen’s outlook on further tightenings is potentially bullish for US asset prices, her acknowledgement of the strength of the dollar and how it affects US exports is concerning for the global economy. To reiterate, we believe both Japan and Europe need a weaker currency to combat deflation. Since our export market is fairly small on a relative basis, a strong dollar, which is deflationary, would enable the Fed to generate economic growth by being more accommodative for longer.

Tuesday, March 29th on the close, we bought the S&P at an equivalent index price of 2055. After this trade we are long the S&P, in a synthetic option on the Japanese Nikkei bias to the long side, long the German 10yr bund and short the US 10yr note and 88% invested.

In 2012 modeled performance (7 ½ mo.) net of all fees was +12.46% with a 10% Hurdle rate
In 2013, modeled performance net of all fees was +19.73% with a 10% Hurdle rate
In 2014, modeled performance net of all fees was +56.42% with a 10% Hurdle rate
In 2015, modeled performance net of all fees is +72.68% with an 8% Hurdle rate
In 2016, modeled performance net of all fees is +18.74% with a Graduated 10% Hurdle Rate

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