In our day job, we have a Fiduciary relationship with our clients. A Fiduciary has a legal obligation where all actions are performed for the benefit of the client. It is a much higher duty of care than the typical “Suitability” standard, which essentially says you cannot sell Facebook IPO shares to Grandma. We sit on the same side of the table as our investors, as opposed to adversaries looking to “monetize” clients. So you can imagine our amusement when the prospectus for this fund made its way to our attention yesterday:

Is any nation on Earth taking seriously the need for a true-cost economy, where we live sustainably in a steady state?

CPI inflation was expected to fall in April because of lower petrol prices and a favourable Budget base effect but the outturn of 2.4% was below a projection here of 2.6% (also the consensus forecast). The chart shows a revised profile incorporating the modest good news in today’s release. Inflation is projected to rebound to a peak of 3.3% in June before falling back to average 2.8% during the second half of the year. Suggestions that today’s news marks the start of a new favourable trend are unconvincing:

The developed world remains mired in the debt crisis that roiled the global economy in 2008. Growth is low, and deleveraging is an ongoing process. However, the response by policymakers has been strong, and free money is leading to bubbles, the misallocation of capital and excess leverage. In this note, we lay out a framework and road map for investors to look at the rise and inevitable bursting of the bubble in global corporate bonds. The Fed and the rest of the G4 central banks have created a bubble in the corporate bond market.