by Tina Byles Williams | Sep 16, 2019 | Market Insights Alerts
#derisking #assetallocation #equities #bonds #geopolitcal #negative yields #yield curve #cyclically adjusted earnings The world faces an economic meltdown, or There is a buying panic in safe assets and thus a buying opportunity in risk assets. For allocators, if the...
by Tina Byles Williams | Sep 13, 2019 | Market Insights Alerts
The dynamics that warrant reduction in equity risk exposures include: Late cycle dynamics leading to marked global growth slowdown Bearish signals from the bond market More constrained reflationary policies from China that will be a less potent for jump-starting...
by Tina Byles Williams | Sep 12, 2019 | Market Insights Alerts
Global institutional investors are selling public equities in favor of so-called safety assets, such as bonds and real assets. This rebalancing activity is driven by signs of an aging economic cycle and bull market (U.S. and Canadian investors) as well as elevating...
by Tina Byles Williams | Jul 16, 2019 | Market Outlooks
Despite a rocky mid-point, precipitated by the infamous “tweet heard around the world” on May 5th, when President Trump once again pivoted to a more bellicose stance in the trade war with China, global equities eked out a solid gain of 3.6% during 02....
by Tina Byles Williams | Apr 18, 2019 | Market Outlooks
Although global growth declined in Q1, as anticipated in our Q1 2019 Outlook, risk assets continued their December 2018 romp as a result of an apparent de-escalation of U.S.-Sino trade tensions and a decidedly dovish pivot by G10 Central banks (See Table One). Some US...
by Tina Byles Williams | Feb 1, 2019 | Market Outlooks
Frontier markets slumped in line with other non-dollar denominated markets in 2018; though outside of Argentina, frontier markets as a whole outperformed even the U.S. market. In our annual outlook we first look back to grade our calls from last year (spoiler: very...