Insights

12 Mar 2021

Posted at 16:46h in Blogs

[caption id="attachment_95" align="alignleft" width="150"] Dr. Patrick Welton Founder and Chief Investment Officer[/caption] For macroeconomic investors the passage of this bill is a watershed event, but its implications for what comes next are likely even more consequential. The new $1.9T economic relief package that was passed by Congress this week and signed into law yesterday, is without question the most ambitious anti-poverty agenda in a generation. Economists estimate that low- and moderate-income Americans will benefit the most from this aid, especially individuals earning $75,000 or less and couples earning $150,000 or less. The number of Americans living in poverty is predicted to drop...

20 Jan 2021

Posted at 10:00h in Whitepapers

How quickly the world can change! 2020 serves as a reminder of the dramatic market swings that are possible over short calendar year periods. The year began with the markets collapsing as the scale of the global COVID-19 pandemic took shape. This was followed by massive global economic stimulus and eventual vaccine optimism, producing a sizeable market rally by year's end. We examine the underlying macroeconomics at play during the year and the likely implications for the markets going forward. Among them, we note that potential volatility due to continued global capital flows may have implications for investors. We close with a discussion...

18 Nov 2020

Posted at 16:25h in Blogs

Can you be a responsible investor and still live up to your duties as a fiduciary? Recent regulatory developments from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) would lead one to believe investors have to make a choice and if that choice involves non-pecuniary vehicles then such investments would be prohibited. The recent guidance gives financial risk and returns primacy over any other factors, such as ESG investing, and went so far as to recommend barring ESG considerations from investment decisions by pension funds. I believe the DOL has this wrong. Responsible investing strategies don’t need to come at a cost. We...

22 Apr 2020

Posted at 09:25h in Whitepapers

Global Macro practitioners can be divided into two camps: discretionary and systematic. Discretionary practitioners develop a top-down macroeconomic view and engage in concentrated positions based on discretionary assessments of fundamental data such as GDP, exchange rates, inflation, debt levels, and supply-demand dynamics....

19 Sep 2019

Posted at 12:49h in Whitepapers

Investors have asked us this question given the lackluster, and frankly disappointing, performance of many of their Trend managers prior to 2019. Industry observers have opined on this as well, and they sometimes attribute disappointing performance to things like: too much capital in the strategy, lower levels of overall market volatility, the effects of quantitative easing, and myriad other reasons. We decided to conduct some research and draw our own conclusions. Here's what we found...