US indices made new highs this week. Most of the indices traded higher week-on-week but more or less flattish throughout the week, as investors were digesting the massive post-elections rally and the vaccine news, while also looking for new triggers to drive the markets into the year end. Still, there was quite a bit going…
The Presidential elections risk was finally written down by the markets as election date came. This week showed that whatever the outcome investors just want to move on. We saw huge gains this week and indices regained most of the ground they lost in Oct in just a few days really. Again an extremely tight…
In this post I shortly describe the October rebalancing of the SIA-style Pension Portfolio (PP). For a detailed review of the most important market developments for October 2020 please refer to my Global Leaders Portfolio (GLP) rebalancing here. The rebalance This month we’re adding $500 into SPY and GLD respectively from the usual monthly $1k cash…
In this post I summarize October 2020 on global markets shortly. The usual month-end rebalancing of the Global Leaders Portfolio (GLP) is also described here. Further diversification of the equity portfolio is being conducted with this rebalancing. New entrants into the GLP are representatives of the Clean Energy (CE) sector. CE is clearly one of…
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…
