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Asset Allocation

The Signal From Dr. Copper
Copper rallied to a two-month high by the end of last week. Importantly, this move did not occur in isolation. It coincides with greater optimism about the prospects of a soft landing. Indeed, the US economic surprise index is solidly in positive territory…
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Stocks Love Growth
According to BCA Research’s Global Investment Strategy service, stocks fare best when there is plenty of slack in the economy and growth is strong and getting stronger. In classical physics, the trajectory of an object can be described by its position,…
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Gauging The Trajectory Of The Economy (And The Stock Market)

Stocks fare best when there is plenty of slack in the economy and growth is strong and getting stronger. The good news is that the economic growth score for the US in our MacroQuant model is above its historic average. The bad news is that US economy is operating with little slack and sentiment is getting complacent. We recommend that investors maintain a modest overweight to equities for the time being but look to get more defensive later this year or in early 2024.

Global Investment Strategy by Peter Berezin
A Cheap Hedge For Upside Portfolio Risk
BCA’s Global Asset Allocation service (GAA) recommends a defensive multi-asset portfolio allocation due to a high probability of recession. However, our colleagues also add a hedge to manage upside risk because they do not expect recession to start until…
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Is The US Manufacturing Cycle On The Verge Of A Turnaround?
A range of indicators suggest that the US manufacturing sector is currently under duress. But should this weakness be extrapolated into the rest of the year? The US manufacturing cycle tends to follow a very predictable wave-like pattern. Each cycle tends…
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Eurozone Investors Are (More) Pessimistic
On Monday, the Eurozone Sentix sent a pessimistic signal about investor confidence in the Eurozone economy. The headline index dropped from -17.0 to -22.5 in July, significantly below expectations of a more muted deterioration to -17.9. Both the Expectations…
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The Calm Before The Storm
On a 12-month investment horizon, BCA Research’s Global Asset Allocation service recommends a defensive stance: Overweight government bonds, and underweight equities and credit. The US stock market trades on 19x forward earnings (and that is based on…
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Quarterly Portfolio Outlook: The W-Shaped Bear Market

Recession is on track to start around year-end. Stocks usually peak shortly before recession begins. So, position defensively but be prepared for a few more months of the rally.

Global Asset Allocation by Garry Evans
A Macro Playbook For Asset Allocators

We build a four-stage business cycle framework based on economic growth and capacity utilization, and then analyze historical returns for most major asset allocation decisions for each stage. Given that we are in the early recession stage (negative growth coupled and an overheated economy), our framework recommends a defensive positioning across all asset classes.

Global Asset Allocation by Felix-Antoine Vezina-Poirier
Third Quarter 2023 Strategy Outlook – They Never See It Coming

In this Strategy Outlook, we present the major investment themes and views we see playing out for the rest of 2023 and beyond.

Global Investment Strategy by Peter Berezin

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