6/03/2023 Economy & Markets Macroeconomics, Geopolitics, and Strategy - March 2023 Market measures of financial conditions suggest significant easing over the last three months, but borrowing costs for corporates and households have...
6/03/2023 Equity European equities are favoured in a fragile earnings outlook Q4 2022 was the first quarter of YoY profit declines for the United States, while Europe has held up better. In the United States, Big Tech-related sectors...
21/11/2022 Economy & Markets UK Fiscal Budget: main political, social and market implicat... Understanding the latest UK budget and its main political, social and market implications
12/09/2022 Economy & Markets Q2 earnings season – strong results helped support the summe... The Q2 earnings season was again stronger than expected and contributed to the equity market rally up to mid-August.
3/06/2022 Equity A look under the surface of the first quarter earnings seaso... The excellent results of the first quarter also conceal weaknesses.
5/04/2022 Geopolitics Ukraine: where do we stand? By calling the war in Ukraine a «tectonic shift in European history», European leaders are giving an indication of the regime changes this war could lead...
11/03/2022 Geopolitics Russia-Ukraine: a lot of bad news already priced in, but th... We expect inflation to trend higher across emerging and developed markets and growth to be lower than initially expected, with higher risks for Europe...
2/03/2022 Geopolitics Special Ukraine The invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops has caught Europe off guard, reminding it of the darkest hours before the Second World War.
1/10/2021 Portfolio Strategy Shifts & Narratives #9 - Adapting equity portfolios to a re... The return of inflation is clearly one of the top themes of 2021 and the post-pandemic economic revival.
28/04/2020 Equity Covid-19 will redesign sector opportunities amid gradual nor... The spread of coronavirus in Europe and the United States triggered a worldwide stock market crash in March, followed by a partial rebound.
17/01/2020 Economy & Markets Economic resilience, Fed and elections to drive US markets i... 2019 proved a strong year for US assets, with US equity markets recording the strongest annual total return since 2013 and the US aggregate bond index...
8/01/2020 Equity Time for a flight to cyclical value in European equity When we look fundamentally at the risks and rewards in equity markets for 2020, we find that value offers better opportunities than growth as implied...
14/11/2018 Economy & Markets What lies ahead for the US economy and markets? The robust performance of the US economy in 2018 has led to the supremacy of US risk assets compared to the rest of the world.
20/09/2018 Equity European Equity: Combining value and quality in this new mar... We believe we have entered a mature stage of the financial cycle amid central bank monetary policy normalisation (more advanced in the US) and decelerating...