Everything Is Being Repriced, Starting with Risk
The global risk premium has increased dramatically and is increasing in an unpredictable arc. This structural trend of higher risks will reprice everything.
The global economy is changing in fundamental ways, and this is repricing everything: the cost of money/credit, the price of assets, the value of hedges and insurance, and so on. The core driver in all this repricing is risk, for it's the reappraisal of risk that forces the repricing of everything.
When risk is low and transparent, the risk premium is low
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