September 2016
Strategy Who is buying US equities ?
While the S&P 500 continues to brush up against its all-time highs and valuations remain relatively rich, we consider below the profile of US equity investors in light of the different sources of information that are available. First, note that the excess demand is not (...)
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September 2016
Strategy Climate change : a challenge for equities ?
According to Anne-Claire Abadie, Portfolio Manager - SRI, Allianz Global Investors, Climate change is a reality we can no longer ignore. In the wake of the COP21 held in Paris last year, assets owners and investors are now wondering about the possible impact of this new (...)
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September 2016
Strategy Emerging Markets: Is now the right time?
After years of difficulties and underperformance, emerging market (EM) assets have the makings of a potential turn-round. Here I explain our strategists’ long-term positive view on EM currencies and bonds, using our investment strategy process focusing on the three aspects of (...)
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September 2016
Strategy Fixed Income : The Risk of Safety
The near-record lows now prevailing for sovereign bond yields reflect persistent anxiety about the outlook for growth around the world. Yet the global economy continues to expand — and inflation remains muted in the world’s largest economies. As a result, U.S. Treasuries — (...)
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August 2016
Strategy Who is still bullish on equities?
After a glorious and rather calm summer, characterised by a broad-based rally by risky assets, range trading by govies and declines in risk perception and volatility, which we examined last week, we now propose to run through the exposure of the main categories of (...)
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August 2016
Strategy Beware... as risk perception is at a low ebb
While US equity markets are setting new all-time highs and inflows into emerging markets are picking up, spurred by the global improvement in the macroeconomic news flow, the Natixis risk perception index (RPI), covered at regular intervals in our publications, has declined (...)
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July 2016
Strategy Why we are taking our equity overweight to neutral for first time in five years
Mark Burgess, CIO EMEA and Global Head of equities at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, discusses the market reaction post Brexit, the impact of central bank actions and why Columbia has decided to reduce its equity exposure from overweight to neutral in asset allocation (...)
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July 2016
Strategy Alternative risk premia weathering Brexit storm well
Pierre-Yves Moix, co-manager of the Alternative Risk Premia strategy at GAM, comments on how the growing alternative risk premia industry has delivered strong performance in the uncertain Brexit environment – proving once again its strong diversification and market neutral (...)
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July 2016
Strategy A Rising Tide Lifts Most Boats
The broad-based market upswing in the first half of July has benefitted risk assets globally. That follows the release of better than expected economic data in the US and China, suggesting that fears over the strength of the global recovery have been (...)
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July 2016
Strategy Results and Prospects in Emerging Markets
Glen Finegan, Head of Emerging Market Equities, provides a detailed update on the Henderson Emerging Markets Strategy, covering recent market drivers, performance and activity, and his outlook for the asset class.
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July 2016
Strategy Gold & Mines – A good way to diversify in the current environment!
According to Arnaud du Plessis, CPR AM thematic equities manager specialising in gold and commodities, after the US Nonfarm Payrolls fell far short of expectations in early June, a further boost to the gold market was provided by the Brexit vote. The big winners are UK (...)
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July 2016
Strategy High 5 : Five stocks giving Jupiter’s Cédric de Fonclare reason to cheer
Cédric de Fonclare, manager of the Jupiter European Opportunities SICAV fund explains why Johnson Matthey, Nokia, Tenaris, Pandora and Ryanair can currently be found in his portfolio.
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June 2016
Strategy Brexit dominated ETP flows last Friday
Investors frantically purchase Gold ETPs after Britain delivered a shock vote to leave the European Union with inflows of US$201m on Friday alone. US$180mn redemption in Short GBP ETPs following the vote. Long crude oil ETPs experienced limited outflows, whilst oil prices (...)
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June 2016
Strategy UK’s Brexit vote to have wide repercussions, leads to change in economic and market scenarios
Results from the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) indicate that voters have decided the UK should leave the EU. This result is likely to have wide political, economic and financial market repercussions, leading us to alter our economic and market (...)
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June 2016
Strategy Brexit: ETF Securities sees rise in demand for short-GBP ETFs
According to James Butterfill, Head of Research and Investment Strategy at ETF Securities, most investors believe that the greatest short-term impact - of fear of Brexit rather than Brexit itself - will be on sterling and consequently he has seen a big rise in short (...)
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