Asset Allocation Chart Pack Latam & EMEA Equities may continue to outperform As investors have digested the prospect of an effective vaccine against COVID-19, many of the patterns in financial markets which have been a feature during the pandemic have started to unwind. One... 16th November 2020 · 13 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Energy commodities could outperform US equities The two asset classes that we track which have seen by far the most action since the last edition of the Asset Allocation Chart Book on 5th August are US equities and energy commodities. Not only have... 10th September 2020 · 12 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Hunt for yield could continue to underpin risky assets The broad-based recovery in “risky” assets that got underway on 23rd March has run out of steam since 8th June. That is not because policy support has been dialled back. Instead, it appears to reflect... 5th August 2020 · 11 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Policy support likely to keep risky assets on top “Risky” assets have comfortably outperformed “safe” ones over the past month, even as evidence of the scale of the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak has continued to mount. We suspect... 4th June 2020 · 11 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Outperformance of risky assets may not be over yet While the recent outperformance of “risky” assets has faltered in the past few days, we are sceptical of the idea that it has all been built on an overly-optimistic view of the economic outlook, for... 5th May 2020 · 11 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Virus fears not the only reason for caution We simply don’t know how far, or fast, the novel coronavirus outbreak will ultimately spread, so for the time being we are assuming that the response across asset classes will follow the same pattern... 29th January 2020 · 11 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Hopes of reflation may continue to fade We do not expect to see a resumption of the “reflationary” pattern that until recently had characterised markets over the past month. This is primarily because we think that the global economy will... 21st November 2019 · 11 mins read
Asset Allocation Chart Pack Few assets likely to beat cash in the next few months We still think that returns from many “safe” assets, including most developed market government bonds, will fail to beat those from US dollar cash over the rest of 2019, even as “risky” assets... 18th October 2019 · 12 mins read
