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Alexander Ineichen

Going parabolic - IR&M risk management update

  • Summary: Overall changes were balanced. From 63 regime tests in this update, 61 (97%) were positive.
  • Economic momentum remains mostly positive. OECD leading indicators continue to rise. Consumer sentiment remains rising, business sentiment remains falling.
  • Earnings momentum remains positive, rising sharply in January. Earnings estimates are rising strongly in Energy and Financials.
  • Risk: CPI is stable and PPI is, sort of, pretty stable too. Latest changes were noise.
  • Notable: S&P 500 going parabolic.
    Philly new orders index fell sharply.
    FTSE 100 is troubled.
    DAX to rise from 13k to 122k.
    Buffett might have lost bet in risk-adjusted return terms.
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Ineichen Research and Management ("IR&M") is a research firm focusing on investment themes related to absolute returns and risk management. IR&M was founded in 2009 and is an independent company, fully owned by Alexander Ineichen. IR&M is based near Zug, Switzerland, a healthy distance to the main epicentres of mainstream financial thinking. IR&M’s research is designed to improve its clients’ investment decision making. The basic premise is the idea that long-term success is dependent on survival and avoidance of large losses, i.e., the management of risk, not returns.

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