Bernstein: It Is “Incredibly Unlikely” That Pension Funds Can Produce 7% Annual Returns On Domestic Assets

Bernstein’s Inigo Fraser Jenkins has a message for the Trump administration. With tax cuts and potentially fiscal stimulus priming the economic pump and blowing a hole in the budget in the process, there will be a day of reckoning.  The message is simple: “Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.” This was also the title of his March 2 piece on where key markets could be heading as a result of such monetary policy. But it’s not all bad news: there is a silver lining for US pension plans who are not invested in the US.