SI384: Building an Inflation-Proof Portfolio ft. Yoav Git
Top Traders Unplugged
Trend followers providing liquidity in new commodity markets
Yoav explains CTAs' early liquidity role in emerging contracts like lithium, supporting hedging and market development.
In this episode, Niels hosts Yoav Git to explore inflation risk, bond fragility, and the changing role of trend following in a world defined by supply shocks and declining trust. Drawing on recent research and market behavior, the conversation examines why traditional bond allocations struggle during inflationary regimes and how commodity trend strategies may offer structural resilience. The discussion spans geopolitics, deglobalization, energy markets, fixed income autocorrelation, and the limits of forecasting macro outcomes. Rather than predicting inflation’s path, the episode focuses on portfolio construction that can endure multiple regimes. What emerges is a disciplined argument for robustness over precision in an increasingly unstable global system.
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Introduction and series context
01:08 - Inflation back on the radar
02:38 - Recent podcast influences and inflation narratives
06:56 - Geopolitics, trust, and market fragmentation
08:52 - Commodities, volatility, and supply driven moves
10:48 - Trend performance and early 2026 conditions
11:30 - Fixed income, FX, and emerging market trends
17:26 - The all weather portfolio problem
18:18 - Bonds, inflation regimes, and correlation breakdowns
22:39 - Commodity trend as a defensive building block
27:01 - Are markets signaling higher inflation ahead
30:04 - What commodity trend really means
33:35 - Institutional resistance to commodities
43:51 - Allocation stability versus macro forecasting
45:23 - Fixed income trends, carry, and autocorrelation
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