All posts in category: United States (64)

Forecast Blindness

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Retracement is a natural market mechanism

Our charts suggest that US Treasuries are oversold and that equity sectors like US Financials are overbought. Even if forecasts of the new Trumpflation era are correct, investors still need to price the risk of non-delivery. Where better than in those assets which reacted strongest when the new era dawned?

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Dodging a Three-Tonne Truck

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

Financials rally could be painful

Financials are rallying fast, driven by a significant decline in volatility in the US and the UK, which is exactly what our models expect. We don’t know whether this is justified by fundamentals, but we do know that every investor with an underweight position will have to consider reducing the risk relative to benchmark, sooner or later.

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Mind the Gap

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

Eurozone bullishness not matched by the US

When Eurozone investors are a lot more bullish about global equities than their US counterparts, we start to get nervous. There are structural reasons for this behaviour, but it can be a sign that a correction in equity markets is on the way.

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Vanishing Vol and Risk-Parity

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Following the Fed doesn’t make you money

One of the main reasons for the new high in US equities is the sharp decline in the volatility of their returns compared with those of other asset classes. Any institutional investor with a formal risk-budgeting approach will be forced to allocate more money to them, having not owned them when they were riskier, but cheaper. This looks dangerously like a “buy high, sell low” strategy.

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