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Dear clients, we all have been caught in a demanding situation within the past days and weeks, which is alarming and does test even long-lasting and trusting relationships. There are many urgent questions yet to be answered. For your and our safety and health we switched our working model completely to home office within the …
On January 31st 2020 Great Britain left the European Union after 47 years of membership. Exactly at 11:00 p.m. local time the party started. The bells of Big Ben were prohibited as well as fireworks. Everywhere the Union Jack. People celebrating. The EU members were reduced from 28 to 27 countries. The deviation from EU …
Also last year showed a positive result with a plus of 3,02%. Especially income strategies were facing a challenging environment with such low interest rates. It’s a real challenge to achieve positive returns with low risk. That’s why we are happy about these positive results after fees. Volatility in May 2019 especially in High Yield …
Since mid-January, we are happy to have a new team member. Georg Mauser joined us with his knowledge and expertise to enhance our team. As Relationship Manager he will strengthen our client relationship management as well as the acquisition process. In addition, he brings valuable input for our investment committee. Besides long-lasting experience in banking, …
2019 was a very successful year for stock market investments and helped to recover from the correction in 2018. Economic growth was shrinking and could be affected additionally from the outcome of the Coronavirus. The easy monetary police inspired equity markets during the past couple of months. Cheap money supports optimism of investors in an …
We wish you and your entire family peaceful and joyful holidays. We are especially grateful for the trustful cooperation so far and are happy to accomplish you as well in 2020. For the coming New Year we wish you all the best. May it combine a lot of joy and success for you.
This year was again a good year for equity investments and one should guess that investors are jubilating. The upword trend has not been a smooth one. S&P 500 Index showed corrections between 4 % and 7 %. Many investors are not or only partly invested. Only few investors participated from the whole YtD move. …
Economic growth is slowing, inflation is low and the labour market remains robust. The central banks remain unchanged in their loose monetary policy until the economic data demands new steps. The quarterly reports were mostly positive and exceeded the low expectations. Stock valuations are elevated in the US and slightly above the long-term average. They …
The US bond market shot up due to surprisingly poor economic data and led to an inverse US yield curve (long bond yields lower than short bonds). An inverse US interest rate curve has historically led to a recession in the US 15 months later. However, there were exceptions where a recession did not occur. …
China worries about the job market and wants to boost the economy with fiscal impulses. Europe is weakening more than expected in the wake of China and Italy is even falling into recession. The US is doing relatively well with a continued robust labour market and good consumer sentiment. The FED confirms that, taking into …