Absolute Return Strategy – Selectivity After The Runup – January 12, 2021
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This report focuses on positioning around the potential for some near-term turbulence in global equity markets following the recent sharp upleg.
Absolute Return Strategy – MRB TradeBook Track Record: 2020 Review – January 12, 2021
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Add to Favorite Reports2020 provided a rollercoaster ride in many financial asset markets, as investors were forced… Continue
Absolute Return Strategy – Positioning For 2021 – December 16, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic took global policy and the economy hostage in 2020.
Absolute Return Strategy – The Ebb And Flow Of Uncertainty – November 12, 2020
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There has been a clash all year between the countervailing forces of the sudden-stop recession and unprecedented policy reflation.
Absolute Return Strategy – Looking Past The U.S. Election – October 29, 2020
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Global equities and other risk assets were hit hard this week as COVID-19 infections continue to spike throughout Europe and parts of North America, forcing several countries into renewed shutdowns.
TradeBook Update – September 25, 2020
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Add to Favorite ReportsThe recent market selloff has acted as a headwind on pro-growth trades, triggering our… Continue
Weekly Macro Strategy – Rotation Update – September 18, 2020
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We remain short-term cautious on equities (and industrial commodities) because the economic recovery is proving underwhelming in many countries and there are a number of potential risks ahead.
TradeBook Update – Euro Area Vs U.S. Equities – September 18, 2020
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Absolute Return Strategy – The Opportunities Are In The Laggards – September 10, 2020
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It has been a bumpy ride for investors over the past week as equities abruptly pulled back from overbought levels, before catching a bid yesterday.
Absolute Return Strategy – Equity Leaders Vs Everything Else – September 3, 2020
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Market leaders typically have a material influence on overall equity performance, but it has been dramatic this year.
Theme – Stylized Investment Cycle: Did Policymakers Avoid A Final Flush? – August 20, 2020
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MRB Stylized Investment Cycle has been one of our most popular thematic frameworks as it provides a starting point when building a multi-year roadmap, and helps investors look for major inflection points.
Webcast – Is The U.S. Set To Lose Equity & Currency Leadership? – (11min:55sec) – July 30, 2020
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In this week’s Webcast, Phillip Colmar explores the potential for a broad-based rotation in relative performance away from U.S. leadership, and provides several investment strategy recommendations.
Absolute Return Strategy – Do U.S. Assets Justify Their Premium? – July 28, 2020
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Today’s report explores the potential for a broad-based rotation in relative performance away from U.S. equity and currency leadership.
Theme – Do U.S. Assets Justify Their Premium? – July 28, 2020
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Today’s report explores the potential for a broad-based rotation in relative performance away from U.S. equity and currency leadership.
Absolute Return Strategy – Setting Up For Another Shakeout? – June 23, 2020
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The powerful bounce back in global risk assets since late-March has benefited our pro-growth positioning.
TradeBook Update – June 12, 2020
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Long-Term Returns – Long-Term Fallout From The COVID-19 Crisis – May 28, 2020
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The post-COVID-19 world poses fresh challenges for investors. While we expect the global economy to rebound in the year ahead, growth in the longer-term will be somewhat slower than was probable prior to the crisis.
Webcast – Top 5 Client Requests Of The Month – (10min:37sec) – May 13, 2020
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In this week’s Webcast, Warren Smith and Santiago Espinosa discuss the top five queries from clients in the past month.
Theme – Mania Profiling (Part VI): What Assets Will Be Next? – May 12, 2020
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This report concludes our series on profiling asset manias. We began this series in late-2019 by outlining MRB’s framework for asset bubbles and compared the current macro backdrop with factors that have traditionally led to manic episodes.
Absolute Return Strategy – Catch The Waves: The Next Is Approaching – April 30, 2020
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Investor sentiment has shifted rapidly from being overly optimistic on expectations of an acceleration in global growth conditions in late-January, to pricing in another deep recession by late-March, to now seemingly overly complacent about the likely recovery path ahead.
Absolute Return – TradeBook Update – April 17, 2020
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Absolute Return – Profiting From A Defensive Stance – March 13, 2020
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Add to Favorite Reports We shifted the aggregate MRB TradeBook from a modest pro-growth to a defensive… Continue
Theme Report – Fallout From COVID-19: Most Asked Questions – March 12, 2020
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe has dramatically heightened investor uncertainty and rocked global financial markets.
TradeBook Updates – March 6, 2020
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Absolute Return Strategy – Will COVID-19 End The Cycle? – February 27, 2020
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The COVID-19 threat arrived at a point when equity markets had an air pocket after materially rerating over the past year and were overly optimistic about the global growth outlook.
TradeBook Update – Booking Profits – February 14, 2020
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Absolute Return Strategy – Trading Manias & Crashes – January 29, 2020
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Global equities stumbled in the last week after surging over the past year.
Absolute Return Strategy – MRB TradeBook Track Record: 2019 Review – January 29, 2020
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Add to Favorite Reports In 2019, we leaned against repeated calls for an imminent recession, which benefited… Continue
Absolute Return Strategy – Positioning For 2020 – December 23, 2019
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Today’s report outlines the main macro forces that will influence the investment landscape for 2020 and provides our related investment strategy.
Absolute Return – MRB TradeBook Update – November 8, 2019
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