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May 25, 2026

Optimize Your Leverage

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UBS outlines how strategic borrowing can enhance investment plans by providing liquidity and diversification, specifically as US interest rates are expected to decline through 2027.

Key Takeaways

  • 1.Proactive borrowing can enhance financial plans by managing liquidity, improving diversification, and boosting long-term return potential as interest rates decline.
  • 2.Short-dated debt yields and US interest rates are expected to fall toward late 2026 and early 2027 as economic growth moderates.
  • 3.Borrowing plans must be 'robust', meaning they can withstand worst-case market scenarios without triggering margin calls.

Table of Contents

  • Optimize your leverage
  • Borrowing can help with:
  • Global asset class preferences definitions
  • Appendix
  • Risk information
  • Generic investment research – Risk information:

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Authors

Sagar Khandelwal

Securities

US interest ratesHigh-quality bond yields

Themes

Strategic Borrowing & LeverageInterest Rate OutlookRisk Management & Resilience

Regions

North AmericaMiddle EastEuropeUnited StatesIranSwitzerland