Allocation

The U.S. and China are edging ever closer to a full-blown trade war, but it won’t just be the two superpowers affected. With its equity markets highly correlated to global growth, many view Japan as a potential casualty of the ongoing war.

The first estimates of May’s figures show very clearly that overall inflation has accelerated after several months of stability, proof that the ECB’s accommodating policy is being efficient. The analysis of Thomas Page-Lecuyer, Senior investment specialist at CPR AM.

According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it seems that outflows from Euro/European focused HY funds have stopped. Over the past 2wk Euro focussed European domiciled funds have recorded healthy inflows putting an end to weeks of poor flows.

According to Cyrille Geneslay, fund manager at CPR Asset Management, Donald Trump’s stock is disrupting investors and this is capturing the rebound potential of the stock market. It says it has reduced its exposure to Japanese equities and European equities in the CPR Growth Reactive Fund ...

With monetary tightening expected, investors will need to consider the sensitivity of their equity portfolio to sovereign bonds and protect it as far as possible through active stock selection and sector allocation.