A stronger revalued yuan is vital to any post-coronavirus global economic recovery, with reinvigorated Chinese financial firepower helping to swerve a deep recession in the next year, according to Toscafund Asset Management’s Savvas Savouri.
Recent spikes in Korean stock market volatility following the global sell-off could see an upswing in margin calls in its autocallables market, potentially driving the index even lower, with investors taking advantage of the higher volatility to obtain higher yields.
Oil prices plummeted on Monday morning as the impact from the coronavirus outbreak – coupled with a Saudi Arabian price cut – dragged global stock markets lower, with a number of major hedge funds standing to gain from the commodities crash. Brent
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak is revealing underlying weaknesses in emerging market debt, according to Man GLG. Guillermo Ossés, head of emerging market debt strategies at Man GLG, says the firm is staying negative on EM assets until the
The rapid stock market sell-off – which saw the S&P 500 slide 3 per cent again on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 down 3.5 per cent on Friday morning – is unlikely to end the long equity bull market run,
Trend-following hedge fund strategies’ strong start to 2020 was eroded during last month’s market volatility, leaving CTAs down for February and flat year-to-date. But managed futures’ funds resilience – they ultimately stemmed losses amid last week’s dramatic sell-off through long
Absolute Return Partners recommends keeping a lid on equity beta positions as US stocks look set to mean-revert following their long bear run – with shipping and uranium being two investment themes arising out of the move. In ARP’s March
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Equity markets around the world sold off last week because of uncertainty relative the Coronavirus’ impact on the global economy and corporate profits. No one knows how bad the economic impact might be, but the
With global markets in freefall on the back of coronavirus fears, BlueBay Asset Management recommends curbing risk levels for now – but suggests alpha opportunities will arise from this week’s market mayhem. The bedlam continued on Friday as both the
Investors are slashing their exposure to hedge fund products at the “worst possible time”, says Man Group’s Pierre-Henri Flamand, amid signs that the long bull market run is starting to run out of steam – throwing up new opportunities for
