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Where we are in the cycle — expansion, late-cycle, contraction, or recovery — and what 18 leading indicators are signaling about the next 6–12 months.
Central bank trajectory, real yield dynamics, and what the bond market is pricing versus what we believe is actually coming over the next four quarters.
The specific risks we are watching — concentration, liquidity, credit stress, geopolitical — ranked by probability and potential portfolio impact.
One deep-dive framework per month: asset allocation logic, rebalancing discipline, drawdown management, or hedging approaches — explained for implementation, not theory.
Gold, real assets, energy, and the inflation-hedge landscape — what is moving, why, and whether it warrants attention in the current regime.
One comprehensive dispatch on the first of every month — macro regime, rate framework, risk register, strategy note, and hard asset scan.
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Our research process is designed to produce one thing: clarity about what matters for capital preservation across full market cycles.
Most market commentary reacts to what happened yesterday. Our research is built to answer a different question: given where we are in the macro cycle, what does a disciplined capital preservation framework demand?
We do not make predictions. We build frameworks that produce consistent, defensible decisions regardless of which scenario materializes. When the framework requires action, we say so clearly. When it requires patience, we say that too.
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Capital preservation is not a product you buy. It is a discipline you practice. The investors who compound wealth across decades are not the ones with the hottest manager — they are the ones with the best frameworks.
Every dispatch we publish must meet one test: would we stake our own framework on it? If not, it does not go out. Every piece is reviewed by at least two contributors before publication.
Where are we in the economic cycle? Expansion, late-cycle, contraction, or recovery? We track 18 leading indicators across employment, credit, manufacturing, and housing to maintain a real-time regime assessment.
What is the yield curve telling us — and what is it not? We analyze the term structure, real yields, inflation expectations, and central bank forward guidance to assess the fixed income landscape.
What are the specific, measurable risks to capital right now? We maintain a ranked risk register updated monthly: credit, liquidity, concentration, geopolitical, and systemic.
Are asset prices consistent with the macro regime? We compare current valuations to historical ranges at equivalent points in the cycle — not to all-time averages, which obscure more than they reveal.
The Reserve Letter is produced by a small research team with combined experience spanning macro strategy, fixed income, commodities, and institutional risk management.
Contributors have worked inside the research functions of asset managers, pension funds, and central banks. They write for Prime Reserve Fund because they believe independent research — free from the conflicts of managing capital — produces clearer thinking.
All research is reviewed by at least two contributors and stress-tested against the prevailing consensus before publication.
Institutional macro research delivered free, on the first of every month. No daily emails. No stock tips. No noise. Just the research that matters for investors who think in decades.
A clear reading on where we are in the cycle and what the leading indicators say about the next 6–12 months.
Central bank analysis, real yield dynamics, and what the bond market is pricing.
The five risks we are watching most closely, ranked by probability and portfolio impact.
One deep-dive framework — allocation, rebalancing, hedging, or drawdown management — built for implementation.
Brief, time-sensitive signals when our risk framework flags a material change between dispatches.
A preview of what subscribers received in recent months.
Late-cycle indicators confirm what the yield curve was already signaling — and what the framework demands at this stage…
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