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China & EM, here we go again...

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Slide 3: China: Capital Outflows the Critical Fragility Slide 4: Closed Capital Account + Current Account Surplus does NOT Protect Against Crisis Slide 5: Global Currencies vs USD Slide 6: What RMB Devaluation? Slide 7: Asian Devaluations in 1997/98 Slide 8: China Carry Trade Dynamics Slide 9: Hidden ‘hot money’ inflows Slide 10: China FX Reserves & Sufficiency Slide 11: China Base Money Dynamics Slide 12: Why China Will Give up its RMB Defense Slide 13: Why Not Just Enforce/Tighten Capital Controls? Slide 14: Can China halt Disorderly Disruption? Slide 15: What Can/Will Global Institutions Do? Slide 16: How to Position for China Disorderly Disruption Slide 17: How to Position (continued)

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Source: St Louis Federal Reserve, China State Administration of Foreign Exchange

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Devaluation in 71% of cases…. China 4yr debt/GDP +49% 2009-’12; +75% 2009-’14…

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USD has been in a major bull market and appreciated strongly against every non-pegged global currency.

CNY has only devalued 8% from its peak ( 6.05 RMB/USD in Jan 2014).

RMB devaluation allows China to take back control of its Monetary Policy and implement needed easing, in addition to restoring competitiveness lost over the last years due to its USD quasi-peg.

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CNY is still up about 27% since September 2011 on NEER basis, but the Reversal is clear, and in its very early days…

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Source: Morgan Stanley, Asia ex Japan Economics: A Comparison of the Current Cycle with 1997-98; August 24, 2015

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Prior to 2014, the RMB had extremely attractive Carry Trade dynamics, resulting in the largest Carry Trade in history (est. $2-3Tr)

‘Hot money’ inflows were hidden in the Current Account (fake exports) and Capital Account (fake FDI), making exact calculation of the size of the Carry Trade impossible.

The RMB Carry Trade is now reversing, adding to Capital Outflow pressures. An estimated $1-2Tr of the Carry Trade has not been unwound yet.

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Over $1Tr in ‘hot money’ inflows from 2009-2014 hidden in FDI and overinflated exports to Hong Kong…These are just 2 of many channels

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Under IMF FX reserves adequacy definition, China’s minimum prudential level of FX reserves is $2.6Tr. China is less than $700B away from that level.

Estimated $500B-1Tr of China’s FX reserves are in illiquid assets (FX loans to SOE’s; Capital injections in policy banks; investments in external entities, etc.)

China Household Bank Deposits are 55 Trillion CNY ($8.4Tr); ‘Quasi-liquid’ WMP & Equity holdings are around 30Tr CNY ($4.6Tr)

Source: Citibank: EM Macro & Strategy Outlook; Aug 21, 2015

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Capital Outflows destroy Base Money in China, which removes liquidity and increases market interest rates, increasing pressures on the financial system and raising the risk of a full blown financial crisis

Interest rate and RRR cuts by the PBoC have been fully neutralized by Capital Outflows (which have taken Monetary Policy control away from China), and will continue to be ineffective until net Capital flows balance again. Inflating monetary policy requires a much bigger exchange rate adjustment

Capital flows will only balance once the market believes no further sharp devaluation lies ahead and

that the RMB is trading at or near a ‘market equilibrium’ level

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1. Capital Outflow Pressures (est. $930B - $1.3Tr+ from 2Q14-end-2015) • Carry Trade Reversal is structural • IF THESE CONTINUE, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. It will not be about what China’s

leadership ‘wants’ to do, it will be about what they are ‘FORCED’ to do.

2. Domestic Liquidity Considerations & Monetary Policy • RMB defense is destroying Base Money & tightening liquidity, increasing domestic pain • China needs Monetary Policy flexibility, & lower Real Interest Rates • Devaluation and letting RMB find ‘market equilibrium’ will make Monetary Policy effective

again as easing steps will no longer result in new liquidity immediately turning into more capital outflows

3. Deflationary Pressures: PPI in deflation for 46 straight months

4. Prevent Debt-Deflationary spiral

5. Relatively low FX debt – around $1Tr – means limited pain

6. Lower RMB will support (CNY denominated) Domestic Equity market

7. Restore Lost Competitiveness

8. Encourage resumed gross Capital inflows & balanced net flows

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1. China needs Gross inflows to resume. Reversing course on Capital Account openness will send the wrong signal to the market and discourage inflows

2. Investor confidence will likely be severely damaged if China backtracks on Capital Account openness and renews Capital controls, as this will be a clear signal of loss of control

3. Capital Controls unlikely to work anyway. Successful uses of Capital Controls (Malaysia 1998, Iceland 2009) – Capital Controls were imposed AFTER large devaluations (48% at the trough in Malaysia, eventually stabilizing at 35%; over 50% in Iceland).

• Similar to different effectiveness of Hong Kong Gov’t stock rescue in 1998 (successful – HK Gov’t bought after collapse), and China Gov’t stock rescue in 2015 (unsuccessful – China Gov’t bought too early trying to prevent a collapse)

4. Capital Control attempts fail, and result in increasing Capital outflows and

ultimately devaluation, after burning through capital that would have been better used to support economic recovery.

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All of China’s potential policy responses come with costs. There are no ‘painless’ solutions Strong Currency defense, maintain gradual depreciation

1. Capital outflows will continue and likely accelerate 2. Domestic Liquidity will continue to tighten 3. Monetary Policy easing will continue to be ineffective 4. No help for heavily indebted, heavily overcapacity Corporate sector

Allow RMB to “float”

1. “Front running Capital outflows” stop 2. China regains control of Monetary Policy 3. Corporate sector restores some competitiveness 4. Deflation likely turns to inflation, helping with crippling Corporate debts

Lessons from Previous crises – 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, early 1990’s Nordic crisis, 1992 UK deval, 1990’s (and ongoing…) Japan - are clear: • Devaluation can be a critical and necessary component of recovery • Devaluation is not a “cure all”, but it is part of the adjustment process

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Globally coordinated action by Central Banks, Governments and Supranational Organizations:

• Politically impossible BEFORE crisis. Even if there is a “bailout package”, or new global Currency regime, it will not happen before there are sizeable losses across assets

• Same with US Fed reversing course • China too important to allow to fail? So was Russia in 1998…. • Impact on Confidence: Will investors embrace QE4 as they did the

previous versions, or will this be the “Emperor’s Clothes” moment?

Geopolitics are much more poisonous now than they were in 2008, 1997, 1994, 1991……

• US Presidential election, UK EU Referendum, Taiwan election • During previous crises, there was significantly greater political stability,

US Economic power and policies were unquestioned and all of the recipient states had friendly relations with the US

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Expect RMB to fall 20%+ vs USD (to 8.0+) This would be a ‘Reset Event’ Globally: All forecasts for Inflation/deflation, Interest Rates, Currency crosses, Growth, Commodity prices would have to be ripped up.

There is no place to hide in EM…1997-98 type crash probable…China today is 1.6-2x the size Asia ex-Japan was in 1997 as % of global GDP

1st derivatives of China (commodities & commodity exporters) have already had substantial losses, as have 2nd derivatives (currencies of commodity exporters, EM Equities, EM focused Asset Management, MNC’s with heavy China exposure), but 3rd and 4th derivative trades are early in their corrections. High beta assets at historically high valuations (Hong Kong property….) face major corrections

Investor liquidation from EM will indiscriminately hit all EM risk assets, even

those that do not sell to, or compete with China (i.e. India)

DM Risk assets all vulnerable too. US$ and US Gov’t Bonds may be the only ‘safe havens’.

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Tail Risk trades • Correlation & Volatility trades • ‘Best-of’ put options • Low delta, deep ‘out-of-the-money’ puts. Avoid spread trades

What are the Peregrine’s and Lehman’s today?

• Dependent on Wholesale market liquidity • Long the Wrong Assets: Carry Trade, Commodities, China, EM • Beware Counterparty Risk!! Avoid Asia & EM focused counterparties

When will it be time to get Long Again? China is the Epicenter of stress in EM and Commodity markets, and a prime contributor to DM uncertainty. EM & Commodities will not hit bottom until China’s disorderly disruption is resolved, which requires some combination of: Devaluation (extremely likely), systematic Debt restructuring (already started, but very early in the process), ‘sane’ Equity valuations (ongoing). Only AFTER this, and the associated capitulation out of EM, should EM present another “once-in-a-generation” investment opportunity….

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