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Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists 

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Slowdown Watch

Consensus continues to downgrade growth expectations, and Treasury markets are starting to price a recession coming.  

This narrative in rates is in sharp contrast to the story being told in equity and credit markets, where the consensus has only revised down earnings expectations very modestly, see chart below.  

The bottom line is that rates investors and Fed watchers are getting increasingly worried about a coming recession, but equity investors are much more bullish and see little reason to downgrade earnings expectations meaningfully. 

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Inflation Impacting Consumers

Weekly data shows that a rising share of households say that they have difficulties paying their expenses, see chart below.

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Source: Census Bureau, Apollo Chief Economist (Note: Household Pulse Survey)

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European Energy Prices Going Up

The costs of electricity for European households and firms are currently five to ten times higher than normal, and this is a serious risk to the outlook for Europe, see chart below.

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Slow Motion Consumer Slowdown

With Walmart’s earnings out, the debate about the health of the US consumer is heating up again.

Wage growth is high, and job creation is strong, but inflation is starting to have a negative impact and trigger substitutions and changing consumption patterns.

From a rates and Fed perspective, what matters is growth in overall consumer spending. The top 60% of incomes account for almost 80% of total consumer spending, and with significant savings left among middle- and high-income households, it will take some time before overall consumer spending starts to slow down, see charts below.

The bottom line is that the Fed will have to raise rates more than the market expects to successfully cool the economy down. And faster Fed hikes increase the risk of a harder landing and deeper yield curve inversion.

Chart showing the top 60% of incomes account for almost 80% of total consumer spending
Source: Consumer Expenditure Survey, Haver Analytics, Apollo Chief Economist
Chart showing middle- and high-income households have significant savings
Source: FRB, Haver Analytics, Apollo Chief Economist

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Watch Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and Lead Portfolio Manager Matt O’Mara discuss how alternatives might help investors address a unique challenge they’re facing today: How the end of a long period of loose monetary conditions—combined with other secular shifts taking place in financial markets today—have coalesced to challenge the long-held mantra that a 60/40 portfolio of public equities and bonds is the key to a successful retirement plan.

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Consumer Spending Accelerating

The weekly data for same-store retail sales have increased over the past two months, see chart below. The sources of strong consumer spending are significant household savings, robust job creation, solid wage growth, and the rebound in the stock market since mid-June. The continued strength of US consumer spending is quite worrying for the FOMC, given they are trying to cool the economy down.

Ultimately consumer spending will slow down because that is what the Fed wants. The question is just how long it will take before we begin to see it in the data.

The bottom line is that the Fed may have to increase interest rates more than the market currently is pricing in to slow down growth and inflation.

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How Alternatives Can Address Your 60/40 Portfolio Blues

A long-held mantra—that a diversified portfolio of public equities and bonds is the key to a successful retirement plan—is now being challenged by secular shifts taking place in financial markets today, including the end of the monetary printing press that started in 2008. What’s an investor to do? Lead Portfolio Manager Matt O’Mara tackles this question in our latest white paper.

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Key Takeaways

  • The end of a 14-year-long period of monetary expansion, a declining number of publicly traded companies, increased concentration of risk, rising correlations, stiff competition, and scarcity of opportunities for excess returns have all coalesced to diminish the opportunity set for investors in public markets.
  • How can investors address this challenge? As private markets continue to grow, we believe that investors should rethink their strategic asset allocation frameworks to add or increase the use of alternatives in their portfolios to curb volatility and seek to enhance potential risk-adjusted returns.
  • We define “alternatives” as simply an alternative to publicly traded stocks and bonds that seeks excess returns per unit of risk at every point along the risk-reward spectrum, from investment-grade credit to equity.
  • Seen through that prism, we believe that it becomes clear that investors can explore the risk spectrum in private markets similarly to public markets. A key differentiating element is liquidity. We believe that investors who can forgo some level of liquidity stand to benefit from the opportunity in alternatives.

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High Inflation in All Countries

Using the global BIS database, there are currently zero countries in the world with inflation below 2%, see chart below.

This fact raises the question whether US inflation is really something special driven by stimulus checks, higher unemployment benefits, and PPP loans.

Maybe the simple explanation is that inflation in the US is not driven by fiscal policy or even monetary policy, as our economics textbooks would say.

Instead, inflation went up literally everywhere in the world because of supply problems in the goods sector and in the energy sector. If this is the case, then inflation will soon come down once the supply chain problems in the goods and energy sectors have been resolved.

The bottom line is that with falling commodity prices and falling costs of transporting goods by container, truck, train, and air, we could see a sharp decline in inflation over the coming months. At least, the global nature of inflation seen in the chart below suggests that there is really nothing special about US inflation.

Chart showing the percentage of countries with inflation below 2% has plummeted
Source: BIS, Haver Analytics, Apollo Chief Economist. Note: Data till May 2022 (46 countries reported). The dataset includes the following 60 countries Euro Area, United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Cyprus, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Algeria, Bulgaria, Russia, China, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Hungary, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Poland, and Romania.

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Transportation Costs Drop

Housing starts and permits and existing home sales data from last week indicate that the US housing market remains strong but is starting to gradually slow. In the week ahead, we will be closely following this week’s FOMC meeting. The consensus expects that another interest rate hike of 75 basis points will be announced as the Fed continues to try to cool the economy in the hopes of combating elevated inflation. One important trend we’ve also been consistently tracking is the fairly steep decline in global transportation costs. This is potentially telling us two things: 1.) Supply chains are improving: This is a positive development as supply chain disruptions have remained a significant drag on growth since the start of the pandemic. 2.) The economy is slowing down: Shipping, freight, and related costs could be dropping simply because there’s less demand for goods globally. This may be signaling that the global economy is slowing—perhaps more substantially than expected. The bottom line is we expect to see inflation come down over the next six to nine months and we are carefully watching for signs of a hard or soft landing in that context.


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