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About Global Market Outlook Reports
Our CIO, Tina Byles Williams, publishes our market outlook on a quarterly basis, based on research that examines market conditions over a three- to six-month period. These quarterly analyses serve as key inputs to our fund construction process, which incorporates strategic tilts to the market segments we believe will outperform over a six- to 12-month time frame. For global equity portfolios, these tilts incorporate regional, sector, and capitalization strata as well as investment process and style factors. For U.S. equity portfolios, tilts include sector, capitalization strata, investment process, and/or style factors.
Our objective is to construct a portfolio of “best in class” investments with weightings consistent with our overall investment strategy.
FIS Group Global Market Outlook Reports
Tariffs, Tensions, and Opportunities
Understanding the interplay of policy, market sentiment, and regional dynamics is critical for successful investment positioning in this era of renewed protectionism and global economic realignment.
The Precariat Are Still Mad! Real Talk on Immigration – Part II
This is the second of a three-part series on the two issues that led to 2024’s anti-incumbent party backlash. This paper evaluates salient macroeconomic, demographic, and social factors that have or should inform immigration policy, as well as the policy solutions put forward by the incoming administration to address unauthorized workers in America.
Laboring Under Pressure: Are Labor Supply Trends Breeding Long-Term Stagflationary Conditions?
As risk-on traders take a victory lap amid surging equity markets and now renewed monetary policy accommodation, the expectations for a soft landing in the U.S. economy now form the base case scenario for a preponderance of U.S. investors.
Yielding to Temptation: Pigs Get Fat, Hogs Get Slaughtered: Q3 2024 Fixed Income Update
As we approach the end of 2024, market volatility persists, with the market narrative frequently shifting in response to new economic data releases. But what does this mean for fixed income markets and portfolio decisions in the fourth quarter of 2024 and beyond?
Navigating Market Crosscurrents: Systematic Global Equities Q3 2024 Update
Market narratives have shifted significantly this year—from excitement surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) to apprehensions about big tech expenditure, and from recession worries to confidence in the resilience of the U.S. economy
What? Me Worry? Geopolitics in the Age of Fiscal Largesse
The summer of 2024 threatens to ignite transnational conflict with an unprecedented array of flashpoints never seen in the modern world.
Market Insights Alert
Papers: FIS Group Proprietary Research
The Sweet Spot in the US Equity Markets: Part 1
The US equity markets exhibit observable biases over time, alternately favoring one group of stocks over others: large cap vs. small cap; value vs. growth; defensive vs. dynamic; sector rotation, etc. We questioned whether there was a longer term benefit to favoring one group of stocks over the others.
Stories from Shanghai and the Mobile Payments in China
China has a long history of pioneering revolutionary change in payments. Coins dating from at least 700 BC have now been found in China, making it the first place in the world (that we know of) to issue coins.
Monetary Policy at the end of the Road?
As central bankers around the world continue to lament the lack of helpful fiscal policy and discuss the limitations of monetary policy after years of ultra-accommodative policy, we discuss what we see as a few of the potential risks to the outlook should the United...
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 3
Yields have fallen precipitously since 2018 on weaker economics, driving Momentum stock leadership, and the underperformance of Value and more-shorted names. These trends reversed in September on positive macro headlines and a pickup in yields.
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 2
It has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times…for growth and value…over the last decade. Since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), economic and market conditions have been generally favorable for US growth stocks. The economy grew at a slow...
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 1
It has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times…for growth and value…over the last decade. Since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), economic and market conditions have been generally favorable for US growth stocks.
Videos And Webinars
Market Outlook and Research Webinars
FIS Group 1Q 2016 Market Outlook Webinar-20160121 1902-1
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FIS Group Q3 Market Outlook Webinar-20150724 1501-1
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2015 Global Market Outlook
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View Q4, 2014 Webinar
Tina Byles Williams, CEO/CIO of FIS Group leads a wide-ranging discussion on FIS Group’s view of geopolitical, demographic and macroeconomic trends shaping risk and investable opportunities for institutional investors.
The panel moderator Sam Austin, III, SVP Director of Marketing and Client Service (FIS Group) and Ms. Byles Williams conducted this discussion as a part of FIS Group’s third annual Investment Symposium. The event was held on September 26, 2014 in Philadelphia.
FIS Group, Inc. is an 20-year old Philadelphia based institutional asset management firm that focuses on investing in long-only global and international equity strategies.
Mid-Year Market Review and Emerging Markets Focus
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Frontier Markets Investing and 2Q Market Outlook 4-16-2014
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