Stephen Laipply
The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Stephen Laipply reads as The Reformer because he does not theorise about fixed income, he redesigns access to it. Pioneering iBonds and building laddering frameworks that mirror index logic, he takes an opaque asset class and engineers replicable, scalable entry points for a broader investor base.
“Moody's action sort of resurfaced that debate. If you look at term premium, meaning, and you know, again, let's define terms, the amount that investors want for holding very long-term bonds has gone up quite a lot over the last several months.”
“I mean, it was stressful. You know, I was not involved with the particular businesses that were under stress, but it was stressful for all of us. Oh, sure. As the headlines scroll day after day after day, you know, was a front seat in history, as it turns out.”
“Yeah, and you also want to be able to have it. So, look, cash is great. We launched money market ETS. Cash plays a role in a portfolio. To your point, it shouldn't be a huge part of the portfolio. You need to get those assets allocated on a risk basis. So whether it's equities, safe bonds, riskier bonds, it's like an orchestra, right?”
“Yeah, and so you just nailed almost all of it. So, depending on what it is, so when you're dealing with something like a mortgage servicing, right, that lender, you know, sells the loan off and then somebody retains that annuity that can get prepaid. So you go pay off your mortgage, I go pay off my mortgage, that annuity disappears.”
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