Defensive/Risk
According to BCA Research's Geopolitical Strategy service, investors should reduce risk, increase allocation to safe havens, and brace for oil price volatility and supply disruptions stemming from the Middle East over the next zero-to-12 months. …
Our Private Market & Alternatives strategists recently upgraded their recommendation on Crisis Risk Offset (CRO) strategies within Hedge Funds from neutral to overweight. They are not making a tactical call around tail risk or black swan events. But they…
BCA Research’s Emerging Markets Strategy service remains overweight Mexican financial markets relative to their EM counterparts on a cyclical and structural basis. While Mexican markets will suffer in absolute terms with the impending global risk-off…
In a recent report, BCA Research’s Equity Analyzer service proposes two strategies to help investors navigate the conflict in the Middle East. The first strategy uses the “Macro Sensitivities” filter on the platform to create a market diversified…
So far, 2023 is proving to be a year of two phases for global equity markets. Despite the bout of bank turmoil which weighed on equities in Q1, stocks rallied for the most part of the first seven months of the year. This rally has since morphed into a general…
The last few weeks saw a repricing of nominal yields to levels not breached since before the Great Financial Crisis. Breaking down the US 10-year Treasury yield into real and inflation expectations components reveals the selloff was mostly driven by the…
EM currencies have gotten caught up in the risk off sentiment across global financial markets. The JP Morgan Emerging Markets currency index has fallen to a new record low amid the US dollar’s ongoing appreciation. While the EM currency index has been on a…
There is a connection between the bond market meltdown and Republican Party’s meltdown. Investors should expect more short-term financial market volatility as a result of the triple whammy of high bond yields, high oil prices, and a strong dollar.
Flash PMIs suggests that the tailwind to services from pent-up demand during the pandemic is easing and that although the global manufacturing downturn is bottoming, it is not meaningfully reaccelerating. In the case of the US, the Services PMI’s…
According to BCA Research’s Emerging Markets Strategy service, the combination of rising oil prices, an appreciating US dollar, and mounting US bond yields constitutes a triple whammy for US share prices. One risk that has recently emerged is the…