We see two to three cuts. Later half the year. First half the year is going to be a pretty good year in the US with all the fiscal spending coming up. Second half you see a bit of unemployment ticking up and that's when we see there will be more cuts priced in the market.

Market is pricing in a gradual downtrend of the dollar. That will basically encourage investors to increase their hedge ratio.

I've never been so much discussion regarding gold from every single industry, real money, long only. The whole point of gold is finite supply. When you have demand coming in, especially from central banks and also from ETFs... We think that whenever a gold dip is, the mentality now is to buy on dips instead of sell, take profit when it goes higher.

I've been traveling in APAC speaking to clients. State Street runs the biggest gold ETF in the world. We have been seeing flows coming in from across the spectrum.

I think it's pretty attractive for current level. Look at ten year JGBs traded 1.25. We start seeing real money banks, insurance companies coming out saying that they will buy from 2% when yield is 2.3%. But they're waiting for BOJ to hike... When you get volatility subsides, that's when they come in and that will be a late 2026 story.

Japan's banking system has $400 trillion of liquidity of cash. It's a matter of time they come to buy.