Money Talks, Money Walks 26 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm

“The trend is your friend”. The aim of the Money Talks, Money Walks report is to establish whether specific asset classes have robust and consistent trends and therefore deserve an ‘overweight’, ‘unde...

Asset Allocation report Q3 2013 19 Jun 2013 | 05:56 pm

Asset Allocation Consensus 11 Jun 2013 | 06:59 pm

We invite you to read the monthly ‘Asset Allocation Consensus’ report. This report is written by one of our partners, Alpha Research, and gives you a quick and easy-to-read overview of the consensus o...

Update: Investment idea Reduce US equities 5 Jun 2013 | 07:09 pm

We remain our bearish view on US stocks. Speculation of a less-loose Fed policy will - in our view - ultimately dominate the major US stock indices. Consequentially we foresee a top-forming process f...

Asset Allocation report Q2 2013 27 Mar 2013 | 05:33 pm

For more than 30 years it has been our pleasure to welcome many asset managers on board as ECR readers. Recently we have had many requests from this group of readers to provide more short term views a...

Spain in the eye of the storm 24 Jul 2012 | 05:29 am

Is the combination of Spanish bond yields rising to unsustainable levels, deteriorating local government finances in Spain, and a higher risk of a Grexit sufficient reason to expect an imminent break-...

Fed waiting for stock prices to plunge 24 Jul 2012 | 05:28 am

The Fed is still hesitant to embark on QE3. What could tip the balance to push the Fed into a third round of QE, and what does that mean for US interest rates? There will be no reports in Week 32 (6t...

Positive outlook Bank of Japan`s line of defense 30 May 2012 | 08:43 am

The Bank of Japan, with its forecast of higher growth and inflation, is able to withstand the political pressure to ease monetary policy aggressively and weaken the yen. USD/JPY and EUR/JPY then have ...

Central bank's balancing act 30 May 2012 | 08:42 am

Speculation on possible capital controls to stem the upward pressure on the CHF is increasing. Is this something we can expect shortly?

UK currency stronger than fundamentals warrant 30 May 2012 | 08:39 am

Many analysts feel a drop of EUR/GBP much below 0.80 is rather unlikely. Sideways trading or a rise in EUR/GBP would then not be surprising given that the fundamentals regarding the UK are actually wo...