A burst of volatility hit the markets finally this week after most of October that was relatively quiet. Sudden wave of Covid-19 cases, new lockdowns in Europe and the presidential elections uncertainty all added up together. Indices are down 8-10% from their tops now. We also had a bunch of macro data and 3Q20 reports.…
More and more dynamic political and epidemic situation is so far not causing increased volatility. This week only Monday saw major indices move more than 1% down. The rest of the week was characterised by very low volatility. Its measure (VIX) hovers around 25-27. Reporting season rolls on. 27% of members of the S&P500 have…
With this article I would like to start a series of educative posts for those looking to increase their knowledge about building a portfolio of assets and managing it. We will start from the Basics that will help you understand further issues and considerations. The Basics are aimed at understanding such definitions as “return”, “averaging”,…
October progresses and further pandemic restrictions are being reestablished around the world. Markets remain broadly immune though. It seems that most direct effects of managing the virus are now priced in and it’s hard for them to have a meaningful impact on investors. 3Q20 reporting season started. So far the results coming out form US…
With this post we’re coming back to usual publication of our GlobalAlphaSearch.com Weeklies after a little break. In general the equity markets had a pretty positive week. The sentiment was not even distorted by the US politicians, who keep quarrelling about further stimulus. The political front will most possibly be geting hotter every day now…
In this post I shortly describe the September rebalancing of the SIA-style Pension Portfolio (PP). For a detailed review of the most important market developments for September 2020 please refer to my Global Leaders Portfolio (GLP) rebalancing here. The rebalance Not much action this month in the PP. Boring? No! It’s a Pension Portfolio :). Patience…
In this post I shortly present the September 2020 rebalance of the SIA-style Global Leaders Portfolio (GLP). This month the post is a few days overdue, but I unfortunately had no access to the internet at the break of months. Hence all the prices are assumed from the close of 5th October as presented by…
Volatility is coming back. That’s the shortest description of the last week’s developments. Recent leaders were vulnerable. In this post I shortly describe what was up. Here we go… Last week -> The US markets were closed on Monday for the Labor Day. This caused other markets to trade in a pretty subdue manner.-> As…
Looking for a good read? In this post I present and describe the best books that I personally recommend and think a serious long-term investor should read to improve his understanding of investing and widen his knowledge about capital markets and its instuments. In today’s world knowledge is everything really. Hence it is extermely important…
In this post I shortly describe the main market events for the first week of September just ended. Here it is… Last week -> The market ended August on Monday ona really high note. All US indices had their best August in over 30 years time actually. This is pretty unusual for August. Below you…
