John Charalambakis & Joel Fingerman The world experienced a creative ascent in the mid to late 15th century that culminated in the first half of the 16th century. If Renaissance […]

The world got almost everything wrong about Xi Jinping prior to 2012 and even a few years after Xi took over China’s leadership. By 2017, it was clear that the […]

In our August 10th commentary we touched on the parallels between T.S. Eliot’s poem Waste Land and the rehypothecation of assets/bonds (a dangerous endeavor that could undermine financial stability). Furthermore, […]

We all have heard the parallels between the Covid-19 crisis and war. Close to eighteen months after we started being concerned about the possibility of the pandemic, Cicero’s words that […]

Machiavelli stood in one of the corners of the famous square convinced that nothing fails like success. The calendar read May 23, 1498. Outside Florence’s city hall – the famous […]

John E. Charalambakis, Mohamed Ramzi Roshdi, Nicolas Abdelhak, & Eleni Buss As we look ahead towards assessing the markets’ outlook for the remainder of 2021, we have split our analysis […]

A survey conducted by Bank of America among over 200 fund managers revealed that the grand majority of them significantly trimmed their bond holdings. The reasoning behind such trimming is […]

More than two weeks ago (on Friday June 4th), we sent an email message to our clients explaining that some metrics and trends make us uncomfortable. Furthermore, we discussed that […]

During the first and second phases/waves of the pandemic, stocks related to innovation, e-commerce, as well as to sectors that deal with digitalization, performed very well, beyond anyone’s expectations. As […]

We are experiencing a paradigm shift: A geopolitical and geoeconomicshift accompanied by scientific, technological, financial, and energyevolutions. The world is changing, and we are changing along withit. Over the course […]