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12 Reasons Why One Advisor Is Betting Treasurys, Not Stocks...

• http://www.zerohedge.com,

While the traditional Barrons' flock of sellside penguins advisors is out and about, for the second year in a row predicting that, after being wrong on its consensus forecast for 2015 of double digit growth in the S&P500, the broader market will rise 200 points to 2220 by December 31, 2016...

... we are more inclined to go with the contrarian call by Prerequisite Capital Management which believes that Treasurys (deflation), not stocks (inflation) are the way to go in 2016.

Here are their arguments why.

Deleveraging has hardly started: Both in the developed world and Emerging Markets.

Capital Misallocation & Oversupply: Caused by (a) the cost of capital being held too low for too long, (b) policies that have caused saving & investment (global current account) imbalances to persist much longer than they naturally would have persisted

Demographic headwinds: Aging populations etc ...


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