Market Cycle Guidebook - March 2022

We just published the latest "Market Cycle Guidebook", which is one of the main reports in our institutional investment research service.

​​The monthly Market Cycle Guidebook is designed to be a practical & tactical asset allocation guidebook for global multi-asset investors.

It focuses on illuminating the key drivers of risk and return across a global multi-asset universe, with the intention of generating actionable conclusions and meaningful insights for medium-term active asset allocation decisions.

Key features of the Market Cycle Guidebook: -Front page snapshot summary on the global economic cycle, monetary policy, and valuations -Market performance snapshot & commentary /highlights -Summary views across asset classes (short and medium term); basically an "AA cheat sheet"

-TAA/DAA guide visually mapping those views -Monthly updated Capital Market Assumptions -And of course, over 70 charts illuminating the key medium-term drivers of risk and return across a global multi-asset universe

-Australia/New Zealand appendix (since we're down this part of the world!)

>> Some of the key takeaways from the latest edition:

-The global growth outlook has become murkier

--on the one hand stimulus/reopening driven recovery is in play

---perhaps boosted by an investment boom, clearing backlogs, normalization

--but numerous tailwinds are rapidly turning to headwinds

---inflation risks are skewed to the upside

---geopolitical risk will weigh on confidence at a minimum

-Thus we are faced with the prospect of weaker growth and higher inflation

-Unwind overweight growth assets vs defensive assets

--still favor commodities, rotation (value vs growth, defensives)

---increasingly focused on short-term risk signals and cycle map

--paying closer attention to old reliable signposts for the macro/market cycle

--short-term focused on the risk outlook in EM, bonds, and US equities

---mindful that technicals have significantly deteriorated

----keeping risk management front and center in the immediate term

-generally moving more defensive

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Best regards,

Callum Thomas

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