The acquisition of reserve assets by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has seen it take on a role more suited to fund managers than central bankers. Faced with the prospect of negative bond yields further and further along the curve, we think that policymakers will be tempted to take some profits from its fixed-income portfolio and add to their already substantive equity holdings.
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