Conviction Equities Boutique

Investing in EM equities in the digital age
Watch our livestream where Jean-Louis Nakamura, Head of Vontobel Conviction Equities, hosts a discussion between Viktor Shvets, Head of Global Desk Strategy at Macquarie and Anthony Corrigan, Client Portfolio Manager, about the role that emerging market (EM) equities play in today’s global equity portfolio and what key factors need to be considered when building a resilient EM equity portfolio.
Asset management

Transition finance: navigating complexity
Financing the energy transition is a complex task, fraught with diverse views on how to execute it credibly. In the FT Moral Money Forum, our co-CEO Christel Rendu de Lint explores the role investment firms can play in facilitating the shift to a low-carbon economy.
TwentyFour

Back to Basics: Significant risk transfer
Douglas Charleston (Partner, Co-Head of ABS) and Pauline Quirin (Portfolio Management), from our Asset-Backed securities team provided a comprehensive understanding of the key aspects and trends within the Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) market.
TwentyFour

The cutting cycle begins
Uncertainty is over, it was a 50 basis points (bps) move. As we mentioned in our previous blog, the most important take away from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting would be their assessment of the economy.
TwentyFour

Fed preview: Look beyond the size of the cut
While the majority of headlines have concerned whether the Fed will do 25bp or 50bp to kick off its cutting cycle, we think this is only one part of the discussion – and not necessarily the most important one.
TwentyFour

Positioning for late cycle as rate cuts begin
Eoin Walsh delivered the keynote address at TwentyFour Asset Management’s Annual Conference in London on September 10, 2024.
Fixed Income Boutique

Fixed income steadies its footing
Find your footing amid ever-changing conditions with Vontobel’s new Fixed Income Quarterly. The launch edition finds our Fixed Income team feeling very balanced, very buoyant, and very bold. Read on to discover why.
Quality Growth Boutique

Tapping into the power of AI stocks while mitigating risks
The forces driving today’s markets are making it especially hard for investors to find the right balance. How can investors tap into the burgeoning power of AI without taking too much risk? Learn how our Quality Growth team manages risk while maintaining a healthy equilibrium.
TwentyFour

Powell’s Masterplan allows for earlier intervention
In his headlining speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell’s message to the market was clear.
Quantitative Investments

Systematic investment approach update: August 2024
Watch and learn about the latest trends in Quantitative Investment’s systematic approach, in volatility, equities, fixed income and Fx
Quality Growth Boutique

View short-term, election-related volatility through a long-term lens
How do you manage the impact of market volatility driven by election outcomes? Matthew Benkendorf, CIO of our Quality Growth Boutique, shares ways to help mitigate risks and stay focused on business fundamentals that point to enduring quality.
TwentyFour

Fixed income in strong position with Fed cut a done deal
It feels as though market news hasn’t taken a holiday so far this summer. From the US on Wednesday we got the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) July 30-31 policy meeting, and revisions to a whole year of non-farm payrolls (NFP) data from the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS).
Conviction Equities Boutique

Global equities reimagined: structural growth, diversification, impact
A cleaner, more resource-efficient path to the future is clear. What's less discussed is the massive growth opportunity this presents for investors seeking to diversify their global equity portfolios. This article encourages global equity investors to rethink the role of environmental impact strategies in their portfolios.
TwentyFour

US inflation makes case for (small) September rate cut
Recent US Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data brought good news for investors and central banks.
Quantitative Investments

The Kamala rally
As we navigate this historic US election, with its many twists and turns, our latest Quanta Byte explores how real-time data can be used to forecast outcomes and the potential effect of these outcomes on US equities.
Asset management

Geopolitics and Climate Change
What is the intersection between geopolitics and climate change? The latest white paper by our Chief Economist Reto Cueni and Senior ESG Analyst Veronika Stolbova explores how these factors shape international relations, industrial policies, and the global power balance.
Quality Growth Boutique

Today’s market turmoil: a reminder that investing is a marathon, not a sprint
Investors have been chasing their favorite AI names around the track, without considering how they could sustain their earnings growth for a prolonged period or through a recession. As long-term investors, we aim to remain focused on resilient companies with durable business models, which we believe will finish the race.
TwentyFour

Labour market dents soft landing sentiment
If you were on vacation last week, your holiday blues wouldn’t have been helped when you looked at your screens this morning, given how quickly sentiment has changed, mainly on the back of one data point.
TwentyFour

The duration deliberation
TwentyFour Asset Management's Chris Bowie discusses the underweight duration across all of our outcome driven strategies, how this phase is now coming to an end, and why we are beginning to increase our interest rate duration in all of our funds.
TwentyFour

Opportunities within European credit
Positioning and fixed income markets have remained quite tricky this year, however credit markets have continued to perform very strongly. TwentyFour Asset Management's Eoin Walsh, discusses why he thinks there is opportunity within European credit despite the rate headwinds and pull back on some of the aggressive rate cutting expectations markets had at the start of the year.
Quantitative Investments

Tensor stacking unplugged
Stacking tensors is a routine task in machine learning, and it's included in most open-source packages. The newest Quanta Byte from Quantitative Investments provides an in-depth look at what tensor stacking is and its various uses.
Quantitative Investments

Systematic and Hybrid investment approaches: July 2024
Quantitative Investments is beginning a series of monthly videos, each with an update on both systematic and hybrid aspects of investment approaches. Watch the latest updates.
Quality Growth Boutique

Judgment Call: Looking behind the numbers to identify real quality
Navigating challenging markets requires assessing earnings and revenue trends and digging into balance sheets. But financial metrics alone can be backward looking. A fundamental understanding of industries, companies, and markets can provide important insights that can help avoid hidden risks and identify overlooked growth drivers.
Conviction Equities Boutique

Trump 2.0: what would it mean for the trend towards net zero?
By the end of this historical election year, nearly half of the world’s population is expected to have gone to the polls to vote for their respective leaders. In the world’s biggest economy, the race has yet to be decided. What might a second Donald Trump term mean for net zero if he were to be re-elected?