Financial markets look ahead and discount future developments. Thus, equity markets reflect fears and worries well ahead of actual economic pains, recessionary troughs or corporate distress and defaults. Managing the Fear & Greed Cycle As we know, risk assets move in fear & greed cycles from fear,...
Read MoreClash - Policies versus Markets We continue to live through unprecedented and complex geopolitics, painful inflation battles, economic adjustment and business contraction cycles and turbulent capital markets. Policymakers, business leaders and investors are facing tough challenges - emotionally, intellectually and financially. They have to navigate through transformative...
Read MoreGeopolitics - Complexities and Confrontations Geopolitical complexities increase and economic confrontations between the West and Russia and China keep escalating, yet no relief nor resolution is in sight any time soon. Sadly, many countries continue to prioritize nationalist politics over economic and business interests, leading to dire...
Read MoreAt KFP we have always advocated substantially higher weights to alternatives than most wealth managers. To us alternatives are defined as private equity, venture capital, real estate, private debt and hedge funds. In a well-diversified portfolio, alternative investments can provide the bulk of your returns. This...
Read MoreDear Friends, 2022 has seen dramatic changes of generational proportions including post pandemic effects, a war in Europe, sharply spiking inflation and major economic dislocations and capital market losses. For the time being we stick to our defensive investment stance, as initiated and published since December 2021....
Read MoreChaotic Global Macro at Centre Stage The global macro situation remains complex and chaotic filled with conflicts, cross currents, vastly diverging and often opposing interests: Russia’s unlawful war on Ukraine China’s misguided COVID policy Global energy and food crisis Unprecedented sovereign debt levels Derailed inflation ratesFragmentation in financial marketsIncreasing financial stability...
Read MoreSwitzerland-based Morten H. Kielland has a 10 percent equity share. "If I had been bullish on equities, the share would have been 50 per cent," says the investor, who has loaded into gold stocks. In 2008, Morten H. Kielland moved to Switzerland after selling the fund management...
Read MoreAs market volatility takes off, three families have put their faith in a strategic model renowned for its outperformance before growth stocks seized the agenda a decade ago. The multi-asset strategy was led by the late David Swensen at the Yale endowment, now worth...
Read MoreThe combination of ongoing economic consequences of the pandemic not only followed, but was massively amplified by Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, has led to a simultaneous global cyclical economic downturn. The underlying forces are dislocations as well as structural process adjustments in politics, security,...
Read MoreMEDZnMORE, a Pakistani health-tech startup, has raised $11.5 million in a pre-Series A round, the largest investment in health-tech to date. After raising $2.6 million in September 2020, the total funding raised since inception has surpassed $14 million. According to MAGNiTT, MEDZnMORE plans to use the...
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