Episode #459: Louis-Vincent Gave, Gavekal – Funding Themes for 2023 – Meb Faber Analysis

Episode #459: Louis-Vincent Gave, Gavekal – Funding Themes for 2023

Visitor: Louis-Vincent Gave is the Founding Accomplice and CEO of GaveKal, a number one unbiased supplier of macro analysis, and GaveKal Capital, a worldwide asset supervisor.

Date Recorded: 12/7/2022     |     Run-Time: 55:13

Abstract: In as we speak’s episode, Louis kicks it off with the most important matter in world markets as we speak – the Xi Pivot & reopening of China. He shares his outlook for the way it might have an effect on world 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 yr.

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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 – Temporary overview of Gavekal Capital
• 4:16 – The state of the worldwide economic 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 cruel 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 as we speak’s inflationary surroundings
• 43:15 – A view he holds {that a} overwhelming majority of his friends don’t
• 45:32 – Eye-opening implications of inflation around the globe 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

Transcript:

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Meb: Welcome podcast pals we obtained 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 worldwide asset supervisor. In as we speak’s episode, Louis kicks it off with the most important matter in world markets as we speak, the chief pivot and reopening of China. He shares his outlook for the way it might have an effect on world 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 yr. 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 as we speak?

Louis-Vincent: I’m on Vancouver Island. About half-hour north of Victoria.

Meb: I obtained to see your view out the window. I’m additionally looking the window here’s a stunning SoCal day. It’s a bit Pacific Northwesty you talked about you’re a bit bit inside, not Victoria waters a bit colder. The place are you?

Louis-Vincent: Yeah, I’m on a spot known as Cobble Hill, proper on the water as properly. So we’re trying, I suppose on the similar ocean, however you’re in all probability proper. It’s not precisely the identical climate it’s darkish and grey. Really, I personal a property that was 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 are clearly U.S. owned and put the whiskey on to greater boats that will 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 outdated 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 properly. A number of the crew there. How do you type of divvy up the journey as of late?

Louis-Vincent: So our agency relies 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, now we have an workplace in Beijing, now we have an workplace in Singapore. So we’re primarily an Asian agency. Earlier than COVID. I used to be kind of doing half and half clearly, throughout COVID. That was not possible. I did return a number of occasions and handled the quarantine and every thing else. However since then, I’ve principally been largely right here. I’m beginning to travel once more. I used to be simply again in Hong Kong for 3 weeks. Simply obtained 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 certainly one of your analysis stories, I bounce at it. And I’ve at all times been an enormous fan. You definitely have a view that’s world, most U.S. traders, and that is establishments too they like to have the house nation bias, as does everybody actually, however you may have a worldwide perspective. So we’re going to speak about loads as we speak. 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 yr?

Louis-Vincent: I feel the large story is China’s reopening, proper? You have got the second-largest economic 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 completely different rabbit holes, we will go down. However for me, that’s the large change. And it’s all of the extra necessary change since we all know that the U.S. economic system is slowing down. If you happen to 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 type of slowdown, similar story in Europe, in all probability worse in Europe. Really. We additionally know that every time Chinese language progress has actually accelerated in 2003, in 2008, in 2015, it kind of triggered a rebound within the world industrial cycle, China reopening goes to result in a rebound. The query is how a lot, and is it going to be large enough to set off a worldwide rebound? That for me is an enormous query. So I feel backside line, we should always begin with China.

Meb: All proper, so I feel a number of listeners traders say, Okay, properly, we’ve seen this play earlier than China appears like they’re going to begin to reopen they usually don’t they shut every thing 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 understand, 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 usually about native points, polluted water, or corrupt officers, or no matter else. So you may have a kind of roadmap as to how the Chinese language authorities offers with protests. And the roadmap is they provide in as rapidly as attainable, what they do is that they blame center administration. So that they’ll hearth the native mayor, hearth the get together official, after which they provide in they usually give in as a result of essentially, the Chinese language Communist Social gathering owes its legitimacy from its capacity to maintain social stability.

Now, I do know within the Western world, the view is, the Chinese language Communist Social gathering owes its legitimacy to its capacity to ship the financial goodies to ship progress. However that’s truly not true. What the Chinese language Communist Social gathering prides itself on is sustaining social concord, peace, and many others. Partly as a result of in case you have a look at China’s personal historical past, from principally 1850, until 1975, it was nothing however anarchy, hyperinflation, famines, international invasion, Civil Conflict, it was probably the most depressing place to stay 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 assume 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 a substitute, what we’re seeing is, they’ve circled, they usually’re quickly reopening, you had an editorial within the Beijing occasions final week highlighting that, look, once we shut down, it was the correct 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 will 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 implications? Now the excellent news is we kind 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 kind of at all times seen the identical factor, huge pent-up demand, however on the similar time, and for me, that’s the large query is if you first reopen, all people catches COVID. And it doesn’t imply you die, as a result of truly, the loss of life charge 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 outdoors 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 individuals 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 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. however 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 stay in dorms on high 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 just really feel like China has actually deliberate for? They’re like, all proper, we’re going to fill up on supplies. We all know that that is coming sooner or later we’re going to arrange for this or is that this one thing that’s simply going to be a large surge in client demand that overwhelms every thing? Like, what’s the type of implications that you just assume so far as markets and economies that is actually going to have?

Louis-Vincent: I want I knew. I want I knew. I do assume China was within the path of reopening, you noticed Hong Kong already reopened, they already decreased the quantity of quarantine to return into China. So it was on this path already. So I feel that there was some degree of planning. I do imagine the demonstrations have introduced every thing ahead and at an accelerated tempo, however they had been entering into that path anyway. Now, have they stockpiled commodities? Sure, I imagine they’ve. As a result of in case you have a look at the information, for me, one of many extra attention-grabbing information factors that no person 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 virtually 3 times as a lot. You’ll have a look at this and also you assume, how’s this taking place when there’s no development happening? When the actual 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 power costs to rally arduous. It’s like China’s consuming 1,000,000 and a half barrels lower than it in any other case would. Nevertheless it’s not taking place. So on the commodities entrance, I feel that they’ve stockpiled. However right here’s the opposite query. Within the U.S. when individuals got here out of lockdowns, they discovered that mortgage charges had been 100 foundation level under the place they had been once they’d gone into lockdown. They discovered that for a similar month-to-month automotive cost, as a substitute of getting a Toyota, you might get a BMW or you might 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 every thing that goes together with it, I want to purchase a brand new fridge, I want 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 previously 12 months have gone down 150 foundation factors.

So now persons are going to return out of lockdown. And so they’re going to seek out out that oh, my automotive cost is a lot cheaper. I can afford two vehicles as a substitute of 1. Or I can afford 50% extra house. So the large query is, are they going to try this? As a result of, sure, they may have stockpiled commodities, however they didn’t stockpile Toyota vehicles. They didn’t stockpile ovens and fridges. No one 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 in fact, you possibly can’t ship a automotive. When you have a automotive and not using a gearbox, you may have a paperweight. And so I feel the potential for provide chain dislocation on the patron items aspect is sort of excessive. In essence, why ought to we count on China to have a special expertise than what we had? That’d be my query. After 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 provision chain dislocations on the opposite. So it’s going to be probably 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 loads about rising markets. However China specifically being the elephant of rising markets, you understand, the typical U.S. investor, in case you have a look at I feel world market cap rising markets is let’s name it 13% ish is determined by in case you do float-adjusted or no matter, however the common American has about 2%. I feel Goldman says in rising markets, so method underweight usually, however China and notably on the fairness aspect, in case 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 taking place 60% has a method of inflicting that to occur, in fact, who’re the winners and losers? As we glance out Chinese language shares, they appear good to you they dangerous, as we glance across the implications of this, what’s the affect?

Louis-Vincent: I’d add yet one more factor. Two months in the past, I used to be doing name after name with shoppers who had been asking, Is China uninvestable, which is in fact 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 kind of cathartic second with the individuals’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 understand the luck. The underside line is China’s reopening. How do you play that you just purchase China, I imply, let’s not beat across the bush. It’s undervalued, it’s under-owned, and you’ve got a optimistic catalyst for progress, optimistic catalysts for earnings. And it has began to outperform. The sweetness is it’s a liquid market, it’s decently large. There’s some fast-growing names in there. In order that’s the plain play. However to your level, China, it’s the second largest economic system on the earth. And it’s the first supply of progress for many rising markets. You have a look at the Indonesias the Thailands, the Saudi Arabias of this world, their progress are more and more tied to what’s taking place 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, in case you’re very reluctant to take threat, and also you assume, I can’t belief rising market accounting, or this or that you could play by Japan or by Europe, I’ll simply spotlight one factor if we’d had this chat a yr in the past. And if I informed you look over the approaching yr, you’re going to see the Fed be far 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, consequently goes to rebound very strongly, the DXY goes to go up 22% in six months, which it’s principally solely executed 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} yr 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, robust U.S. greenback, weak China. That was like a recipe for a large faceplant.

Now, apparently, previously yr, 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 usually, they are typically the redhead stepchildren of monetary 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 offered arduous. And but this yr Indonesian bonds, you barely lose any cash on them. And also you truly generate income on Indonesian equities. I spotlight this as a result of for me bear markets as disagreeable as they’re on the market for a cause. 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 one enjoys it. However when you’re in a bear market, what you want to do is attempt to search for the place are you seeing outperformance? And as we speak, one of many locations you’re seeing clear outperformance despite huge macro headwinds is rising markets.

Now, let’s quick ahead to the approaching yr. What are going to be the developments subsequent yr? Primary, by far the most important development, China reopens huge, essential development. Quantity two, I feel there’s probability the Fed is principally executed rising fairly quickly, they may have yet one more charge 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 executed, the U.S. greenback is rolling over. So these big three headwinds to rising markets are actually 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, in case you simply hearken to them, it’s telling you that is the brand new bull markets. That is the place you want to deploy capital. And to your level, all people’s it and be like, no, I’m not doing this. And Individuals have such as you level out 2% of their property in rising markets. So that they’re going to overlook that complete first huge leg within the bull market.

Meb: One last item on rising markets that I feel might be one of many causes notably the large establishments had an enormous pause, and people too was your entire Russian securities market turning into basically paused or uninvestable. Russia is essentially 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 appear and say, wait a minute, it is a attainable playbook for China, Taiwan. It’s arduous to ever provide you with odds however is that one thing that needs to be a severe concern from the investor standpoint is it seemingly unlikely consensus non-consensus what do you bought?

Louis-Vincent: It ought to however maybe not for the rationale you assume. So first, I don’t imagine for a second China’s going to invade Taiwan. They will’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 army and Taiwan is a series 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 far more necessary deglobalization is the deglobalization of monetary flows, the truth that Russians clearly can’t spend money on wherever, however Russia now.

And in case you are a European investor, in case you’re a U.S. investor, abruptly, you assume, oh, possibly China is a harmful place for me to deploy capital. However that knife cuts each methods. If you happen to’re Chinese language, and also you have a look at this Russian invasion, in case you’ve been a wealthy man in China, for the previous 20 years, every time you made cash, to procure 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 legislation. 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 legislation, 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 a bit asterisk to this. We’ve stated besides in case you’re Russian. If you happen to’re Russian we will take all of your stuff, we will take your soccer membership, we will take your own home in Saint Tropez, we will take your yachts, we will take your non-public jets, we will take your own home in South Kensington. And we will do that with none courtroom orders. With none dialogue in Parliament. We principally have the G7 world leaders get collectively over a weekend they usually resolve to do that.

Now, in case you’re Chinese language, you see this, you assume, okay, besides in case you’re Russian as we speak, it may very well be besides in case 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 unsuitable in China I may at all times transfer to Vancouver. Effectively, truly, this home isn’t what I feel it was it’s as a result of if issues do go unhealthy, then it may well get confiscated. And so following this Russian invasion, I feel we’ve undermined the most important after I say we I imply the Western world, our largest comparative benefit, the rule of legislation and the sanctity of property rights, we’ve torn that up. I don’t assume we notice it. Whenever you stay within the Western world, you don’t notice we’ve simply executed that. However from an rising market, the place you’re very attuned to those issues. Since you’re at all times nervous that the federal government goes to return and take your stuff. If you happen to’re wealthy in China, in case you’re wealthy in Saudi Arabia, you’re nervous the federal government’s going to return and take your stuff. Have a look at what occurred to the Saudi princes, when MBS obtained to energy, proper, all of them obtained to be holed up within the Ritz Carlton and principally for a shakedown.

So if you come from an rising market, at all times nervous about this, and the Western world was at all times the place the place you deploy capital. If you happen to had been Chinese language, and to procure homes in Australia, or the UK, you didn’t do it since you thought this may have good returns, you probably did it for the protection of the capital, overlook the returns, you didn’t care in regards to the return on capital, you cared in regards to 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 the roof property goes down. And right here you get to the crux of the matter, which is why I assumed this deglobalization issues much more than individuals assume, however maybe for the unsuitable causes. They’ve obtained 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, large commerce deficits on the one hand, large finances deficits on the opposite, you want any individual to fund that. And the way in which we funded that was by promoting property to foreigners.

The most important property we offered had been one authorities bonds and two actual estates. And we offered it to the nations that had fixed present account surpluses. The Saudi Arabias of this world, the Burhans the Qatars the Chinas the Bruneis, in case you look around the globe, most western democracies have large twin deficits. Most rising markets have large twin surpluses. So we’ve lived on this odd world the place poor nations are funding wealthy nations, they usually had been doing so due to the safety of capital. Now, in case you’re China, you assume in case you’re Chinese language, I don’t need to purchase any extra Vancouver actual property. I don’t need 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 yr when actually they shouldn’t have is the financial savings are not going to movement 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 try this? The reply is that they gained’t. And so the currencies must 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 one of the crucial costly markets that we observe, many of the nations around the globe we expect are fairly cheap too low-cost to screaming low-cost, the U.S. is just not in that bucket, we expect 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 brief 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 observe file of native entrepreneurs and utilizing capital relative to a number of rising markets, it’s obtained loads 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 must import a lot of their power. 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 increasingly more of their power 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 kind of Damocles sword from over their head or at the very least a kind of present account constraint that was at all times there. Having stated that, I feel one of many cause India’s executed fairly properly, is that in case you’re an EM supervisor, or in case you’re a Pan Asian supervisor, it’s been the one good story this yr, that and to some extent, Brazil, however you may have some political uncertainty in Brazil.

So in case you’re an EM supervisor, and it’s a must to go pitch your shoppers, and you may’t say, properly, the place are you invested? You need to say India, as a result of then you definitely don’t get nasty questions. If you happen to say, Oh, I’m obese China, you get all kinds of nasty questions. Oh, however aren’t you nervous about Taiwan being invaded, cash being frozen, and many others, and many others. So, the way in which maybe, you understand, 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 international traders resolve, can’t be in China, for no matter cause, 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 shall be each rising market fund, each Pan Asian fund must 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 move that part of portfolio readjustments which is able to in all probability take six to 9 months, then India is ok, identical to it’s not going to be an excellent six to 9 months that’s it.

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Let’s speak a bit bit in regards to 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 in regards to the U.S. economic 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 as we speak to your level, the final notion on the market partly due to the U.S. greenback power is that the U.S. is the cleanest soiled shirt. It’s the one factor that may be seen in. All the things else, Europe has obtained potential power 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 understand you’ve made cash in Brazil this yr. You’ve made cash in India, you’ve made cash in Mexico, you’ve made cash in Indonesia, there’s so many large markets that did fantastic. So the market is… all people tells you oh U.S. is the cleanest soiled shirt. And in the meantime, it’s like properly 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, in case you venture your self to the approaching yr, what’s going to be the large story, one is China reopening. So we’ve lined that. I feel the second story for 2023 shall be a number of U.S. bankruptcies, in the course of the years of straightforward cash, you had a number of silly initiatives that obtained funded, and firms which are nonetheless to this present day burning by money. Now, the fact is, if by now you’re not in a optimistic money movement as a enterprise, in case you’re not in optimistic money movement if you’ve simply had fairly a number of quarters of principally double-digit nominal GDP progress, plus 0% rates of interest, in case you can’t generate income in that surroundings, which means you’re by no means going to generate income. And within the coming yr, traders are going to allow you to go. So that you’re going to see a number of bankruptcies within the U.S., you’re going to get right into a chapter cycle, which is able to 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., as we speak, you may have 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 usually will get derated to non-investment grade, now the non-investment grade market within the U.S., is round a trillion {dollars}. If you happen to assume that within the coming yr by 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, in case you’re managing an funding grade fund, if one thing will get downgraded to non-investment grade, you possibly can 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 must do away with this on my e book, are you able to guys take this from me, and you understand, 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 supply liquidity to the market in occasions of stress, they will’t try this anymore, since 2008. That capacity of them to carry 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 progress 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 yr. As a result of look, you’ve had, once more, a large improve in company debt within the U.S. And that’s very particular, once more, to the U.S. And a number of that debt must get repriced at a lot larger charges.

Meb: Yeah. As we have a look at kind of U.S. economic system, I imply, clearly, the rates of interest ripping up and you may have a few of my favourite charts, if we will speak 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 individual, however a number of your matters. As we glance out to 2023. It appears like everybody’s obsessive about the Fed. Does Powell pivot, is the bear market over it appears to be that you just’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 possibly can share, I can carry it up if you would like. 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 power 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 want to be in U.S. tech, and many others. 10 out of the highest 10 corporations are tech shares as we speak. This has been the theme now the attention-grabbing factor after I present this desk to shoppers they are saying oh yeah, the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000s These had been bubbles. However as we speak, that’s not a bubble. These guys generate nice money flows. They’ve quasi-monopoly conditions, which provides them the flexibility to bully governments. It’s very completely different this time. There’s this perception to your level, all people’s speaking in regards to the Fed pivot. All people you speak to says oh, properly, I want 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 should buy 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 should buy financial institution of Tokyo Mitsubishi once more? You had some nice rallies in Japan by the ’90s. And you understand, you might commerce these rallies, however you need to play the basic developments and never lots of people made cash, and despite the fact that you had large 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 cause. We’re in a bear market, bear markets are there to alter the management, the bear markets 2011, it allowed to alter management from every thing’s about China to every thing’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 positive you’ll get a rally in Fb and in Google and every thing else. However it’s going to mark the beginning gun for the large outperformance of rising markets. From the second the Fed cuts, the U.S. greenback will actually faceplant. That is when it’ll change into apparent to individuals that really many of the progress on the earth over the subsequent decade goes to happen in rising markets. And that is the place you want to be. So the Fed pivot does matter. And I feel as you get monetary accidents within the U.S. in 2023, you will note 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 loads about it on the present, not simply because I wish to ski in Japan and hopefully get to revisit this yr 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 obtained its head again above water. I’ve been attempting to inform traders, as a lot as I like shares for the long term, it’s going to be loads longer than you assume.

Louis-Vincent: Effectively, so apparently, in Japan, within the ’80s, a number of the bubble was round actual property and naturally, banks. If you happen to truly strip out the banks from the index, if you obtained 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, every thing collapsed, and many others. However in case you strip out the banks from the index, truly, 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 kind 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 remainder as a result of the remainder of the U.S. will do okay. The one hurdle for the industrials and many others. Now could be the robust greenback because the robust greenback rolls over, there’s no cause the John Deere’s and the Caterpillars of this world can’t go on happening.

Meb: Effectively, you’re talking proper to the center of a worth investor. However we speak loads about this, we are saying look, a number of the occasions worth investing is ok. 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 big 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 speak loads about how we expect, even inside the U.S. proper now worth or simply something aside from the junk on the high will be in all probability a very fantastic place to be. However that’s one of many large weaknesses of market cap weighting. And traditionally why we are saying it’s fantastic, 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 despite the Apples outperformance in case you did it ex Apple, it could actually beat the pants out of it.

Meb: Yeah, you had an excellent quote the place you had been speaking principally the period developing 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 Individuals we will discuss basketball crew level guard, middle, or no matter it could be. As we take into consideration, you understand, 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 yr? And it’s like 90% stated, yeah, and it’s like 90% of ETFs are down. And we glance out into the longer term. So we obtained the China half in rising markets. The rest that we didn’t discuss that you just assume are attention-grabbing areas to plug into the portfolio or to keep away from as properly?

Louis-Vincent: Yeah, completely. So to your level, I feel there’s essentially 3 ways to generate income in markets. You both run a return to the imply technique, you run a momentum technique, otherwise you run a carry commerce technique. Whenever you placed on a commerce, it’s essential that you understand what that man is doing for it. To your level. It’s like placing a crew collectively, proper? You talked about basketball. You don’t count on your level guard to be the best rebounder in your crew. 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 place them on the courtroom within the first place. And in order you construct your portfolio, I feel it’s essential 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 capacity to rebound. I spotlight this as a result of for most individuals, to procure authorities bonds for his or her antifragile traits, to procure them considering, properly, if my fairness is down 20%, then my bonds shall be up 10. In order that’s their job. And that job has failed massively this yr.

The large failure in most individuals’s portfolio, whether or not you’re a pension fund, an endowment, a non-public investor, and many others, 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 just is likely to be down 20%, the half that has failed is that bonds haven’t executed their job. Now, the fascinating factor to me is that we should 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. If you happen to’re the coach you’d sub him out, it’s okay, you understand what you’re out. You’ve misplaced it, you don’t have it. However in case you present up as we speak, to no matter wealth administration agency you need to present as much as, they’re going to offer you a pleasant questionnaire, they usually’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 individuals nonetheless handle cash the identical method. As a result of it’s like, properly, 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 are actually positively correlated, as a result of we’re now in a structurally inflationary surroundings, then you want to fully rethink your portfolio development.

And I don’t assume persons 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. And so they’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 stay in, then you want to discover completely different property which are anti-fragile, completely different property that shield your fairness draw back.

Now, in an inflationary surroundings, you want to principally get property that profit from inflation, not get property that get harm by inflation, property that profit from inflation are, in fact, commodities, it’s power, it’s rising markets, it’s all of the issues that really did diversify your portfolio a yr in the past, and my portfolio, I’m loaded up with power, I’ve a lot power, and it’s not been doing properly these previous few weeks. However I virtually don’t care as a result of I’ve different stuff that’s doing properly, proper now, most notably, all my China stuff, it’s ripping larger. So my China stuff is ripping larger, my power stuff is doing badly. It’s okay if tomorrow, power costs undergo the roof, my China stuff will dump, however my power stuff will do properly, once more, what would you personal bonds for OECD authorities bonds for? Who’s going to purchase these from you at a better worth? For what cause? 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 primary, but additionally crucial perception to work by and excited about what position they play, and never simply assuming that. I imply, bonds are such an excellent instance, in case you examine historical past for previous 100-plus years, you understand, bonds don’t at all times hedge when shares do poorly, generally they do. However generally they present as much as the Christmas get together, they drink an excessive amount of. And that’s that, sorry. That’s who you get your loopy cousin exhibiting up this yr. 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 may very well 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 fully undermined within the Western world, our single largest comparative benefit, you understand what we talked about, and that that is going to be mirrored in decrease and decrease asset costs, particularly for the asset costs which are perceived to be protected i.e. bonds in actual property. I feel these two asset lessons are virtually condemned asset lessons 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 suppose, to sum it up is the property you assume are protected, are far much less protected than you assume they’re and the property that you just assume are unsafe, are in all probability a lot safer than you assume they’re. Folks’s notion of security is totally unsuitable. And partly as a result of individuals equate security with volatility, and in case you have a look at durations which have nations which have gone by inflation, in case you had your cash in actual property or in bonds in Argentina, or in Brazil once they had large inflation, or in Zimbabwe or South Africa or wherever else, you bought cleaned out, in case you held equities, you truly did okay. It was risky. However over the course of the cycle, you continue to did okay. So I feel the view I maintain dearly is definitely equities. At this time, given the macro surroundings, equities are a lot safer than bonds.

Meb: There’s a pair feedback one was, I listened to podcast this week known as Messi Economics, however it was speaking in regards to the perspective was an Argentine reporter, and I feel it was on NPR was the present word hyperlinks listeners, the place an Argentine reporter talked about her childhood in Argentina, after which additionally type of overlaid the expertise of the soccer participant Messi and type of a number 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, notably 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 as we speak have by no means actually skilled an inflationary surroundings. If you happen to do, you’re in all probability 70. And nobody’s listening to you anymore anyway. So that you’re out taking part in golf, however we did a publish in the course of the pandemic known as the Keep Wealthy Portfolio. And I like to do polls on Twitter to ask individuals questions, and simply to type of pro-sentiment. One among 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 individuals have a look at that on a nominal and volatility foundation.

However after inflation, we are saying how a lot do you assume T-bills or bonds have declined previously on an actual drawdown foundation? Most individuals say like zero to 10%, few loopy, say 10 to twenty, you understand, and the reply is over 50, proper? And so you possibly can have a look at, you undergo a thought experiment. And what we did is we checked out a worldwide portfolio of worldwide shares, world 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 truly 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 undoubtedly in my non-consensus views as properly. And I don’t know actually many individuals that imagine that apart from me, however enjoyable thought experiment to undergo. Additionally why there’s so many yachts in Argentina, in case you go down there, and varied locations in Latin America, in case you look again in your profession, what has been your most memorable funding, it may very well be good or unhealthy. And it’s also possible to say, your most memorable name or place that you just’ve had, through the years, there’s going to be 1000’s of them, I’m positive however something come to thoughts?

Louis-Vincent: I don’t assume 1000’s I feel a profession is fabricated from three or 4 calls, to be sincere. And in case you get three or 4 proper, you’ve had a reasonably good profession, for me, by way of studying curve, each but additionally, frankly, money-making alternative after the 2008 mortgage disaster. As a agency, we appeared 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 challenge 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 good friend 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 many others, 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 individuals 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 understand, Greece was going bankrupt, Italy was in dire straits. And as all this was taking place, 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 brief, the euro, the enjoyable in it, I’m making fantastic 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 informed me, you must have tried being brief Japan within the ’90s. As a result of by 1990, it was apparent that Japan had hit the wall. So he went brief, the Nikkei, and he went brief, the yen and the brief Nikkei labored fantastic. And the yen went from 150 to 85 in 1994. So which means it’s going up. So the yen rose massively.

So ultimately, you undergo these episodes and also you assume okay, truly, when nations hit monetary stress, you’d assume the foreign money would go down, however you possibly can have a interval the place the foreign money truly shoots up as pension funds repatriate capital as banks repatriate capital as insurance coverage corporations repatriate capital, as all people brings a refund from overseas to plug the holes, and there’s no person 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 on the U.S. greenback as an indication of power as we speak. 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. If you happen to’re a U.S. pension fund in case you’re a U.S. insurance coverage firm, are you bringing a refund to kind 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’m wondering is that this an indication of power or an indication of weak spot 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 large 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 assumed, 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 observe 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 properly. And our guess was that Chinese language bonds would outperform most bond markets over any interval. And in case 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 assist to that markets. And so one of many issues I realized is, particularly in terms of bonds, particularly in terms of currencies, you don’t need to underestimate the power of presidency. Via 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: Effectively stated, Louis, the place do individuals discover you? They need to learn a few of your work. Hear some extra of your soothing voice, what’s one of the best place to go?

Louis-Vincent: Thanks very a lot. Effectively, one of the best place to go is our web site. We’ve got an internet site. It’s gavekal.com, gavekal.com. And from there, we do various things. We’ve got a non-public wealth arm, now we have an institutional cash administration arm, now we have a analysis arm, so wherever individuals need to go, they will direct themselves from there, however that’s in all probability one of the best place. We do have a Gavekal Twitter feed, however you possibly can kind of maintain updated with some stuff there. I don’t actually publish on Twitter or something. I don’t have a lot of a social media presence. So one of the best factor is the web site.

Meb: Or you possibly can observe his Twitter account for some good charts and get your arms on as a result of they’re nice. Louis, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us as we speak.

Louis-Vincent: Completely. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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