Insync Funds Management, believes that the current resurgence of interest in value style investment will be short lived, and investors should be wary of tweaking a style bias through value managers to chase short term performance advantage.
Part of the rotation into cyclicals such as banks, industrials and turnaround businesses has been driven by a greater consensus around a pick-up in growth and inflation. Insync believes that it is unlikely that the low-inflation regime of past decades will end anytime soon. One of the major headwinds is the collapse in the velocity of money despite the rapid growth in money supply. Unless central banks can find a way to encourage banks to lend more aggressively, the velocity of money will remain a headwind to the ‘reflation’ trade
“Value managers, I believe need a very different world from the one growth managers do to produce outsized returns,” Mr Lobb said. “Value managers have typically performed well during periods of economic resurgence and reflation.”
John Lobb, portfolio manager at Insync noted the recent outperformance of value sectors such as banks and energy companies is “fairly typical coming out of a recession”.
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