The Symphony of Asset Management: Caravaggio Meets Atlas in the Chameleon Age
The scientific art of asset and wealth management is like conducting an orchestra. Each musician is dedicated in playing her/his own unique instrument. The enjoyment of music is the product of coordinated instruments. Cacophony is the product of uncoordinated...
Weekly Market Update
Market Action European and Japanese shares led risk assets across the globe this week. Positive inflation data both in Britain and throughout the Euro area encouraged markets on the continent while Japan reiterated its readiness to intervene to prevent the Yen from...
Credit Impulses and Market Volatility: The Missing Link
Over the course of the last couple of weeks we have read reports that credit facilities are rising, production is on the upswing, Chinese tremors are subsiding, and an overall sense of calmness is returning into the markets. We do not dispute these facts but we take a...
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Risk assets returned most of their gains from the past week as earnings season is set to pick up momentum. Analysts are estimating that earnings will fall 9% over last year’s level and hope that it marks a trough in the corporate sector. Safe havens...
WWW: Wrong Tools, Wrong Targets, Wrong Diagnoses
The world economy may be entering into treacherous territory. Central Banks and policy makers seem to have misdiagnosed the credit problems and applied the wrong medication. We are referring of course to that fact that toxic assets such as derivatives and the...
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Equities bounced back in the U.S. once again thanks to soft guidance from monetary authorities while the March jobs report came in slightly above expectations. Despite the renewed risk appetite, the defensive Utilities and Telecoms sectors continue to...
Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy
March 2016 The data, in particular the sharp retrenchment in global capital and trade flows, shows that the world is facing a growing risk of “economic derailment”. In contrast to the recent rally in the financial markets, global growth continues to lose...
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks ended their win streak with a slight decline this week and sit relatively flat for 2016 overall. Bond yields rose this week as several statements from Fed officials leaned towards hawkish action as soon as the next meeting of the central bank....
The Plumbing of the Financial System: Debt Markets and Structured Products
Over the course of the last few months official foreign accounts have been selling US Treasuries. At the same time, the US Fed has been selling Treasuries to its primary dealers whose inventory of government bonds is rising. Moreover, newly issued paper (a.k.a....
Weekly Market Update
Market Action The U.S. stock market delivered its fifth consecutive week of gains and entered into positive territory for the first time in 2016. Thanks to the Fed’s diminished expectations for rate hikes in 2016 equities took off, welcoming the dovish sentiment. Oil...
