Beyond AAA: RCLO Is a Strategic Yield Play in 2026

Event: the potential installment of a new U.S. Federal Reserve chair. Markets are shifting from a 'higher-for-longer' interest-rate regime amid persistent inflation toward expectations of easing monetary policy, but a new Fed chair could reverse that narrative and materially increase policy uncertainty. Implication: heightened volatility and policy-risk for rates and risk assets as the likely path of interest rates and inflation expectations could change.

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Event: the potential installment of a new U.S. Federal Reserve chair. Markets are shifting from a 'higher-for-longer' interest-rate regime amid persistent inflation toward expectations of easing monetary policy, but a new Fed chair could reverse that narrative and materially increase policy uncertainty. Implication: heightened volatility and policy-risk for rates and risk assets as the likely path of interest rates and inflation expectations could change.