Our weekly reports consist of updates of our strategy and recommended portfolio mix, complete with the performance of our trade recommendations, while keeping clients abreast of any important shifts in the macroeconomic landscape
Our special reports focus on original investment ideas or timely topics, drilling down into relevant issues affecting the macroeconomic outlook and markets
We offer quarterly strategy outlooks, which highlight developing investment themes, identify opportunities and risks, recommend strategy, and review performance
Client receive ad-hoc special alerts signaling major shifts in investment service

MacroQuant 2.0 Model
The Global Investment Strategy (GIS) service has recently launched their exciting, next-generation MacroQuant 2.0 model, a state-of-the-art forecasting tool covering all the major financial markets. Powered by an innovative learning algorithm and access to thousands of data series – including proprietary indicators developed by BCA Research – this new platform aims to forecast the direction of equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities across different time horizons. It also provides equity recommendations down to the sector and regional levels. With great efforts put in to reduce the look-ahead biases that typically plague other models, MacroQuant 2.0 significantly outperformed a buy-and-hold portfolio in backtests. The Global Investment Strategy service uses this new model as an input into its investment recommendations. In fact, it has already made use of MacroQuant 2.0 to inform the view to remain positive on stocks over the course of 2023, as well as to go long the TLT ETF in late September 2023.

Our discussion of key economic and investment themes is designed to assist clients in understanding the underlying forces that are shaping the economic and financial market outlook in both the developed and emerging worlds
Our unique approach results in timely and actionable recommendations, which allow clients to capitalize on profit opportunities as well as preserve capital
Our analysis draws on the breadth and depth of BCA Research’s research offerings, and is based on a mix of macroeconomic developments and how they impact all financial markets spanning the globe
The GIS team utilizes unique models and indicators that give investors an edge in forecasting market trends. Some of these models were pioneered at BCA Research decades ago and have stood the test of time. Others, such as MacroQuant, offer innovative, cutting-edge tools that are not available anywhere else in the investment community

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2021: Warning on cryptos and internet stocks
GIS warned in May 2021 that cryptos were heading for a fall. At the end of 2022, we reiterated that we remain short Bitcoin from an entry price of $63,267 with a long-term target of $5,000. In August 2021, GIS warned that another high-flying asset – US internet stocks – were set to tumble. In May 2022, after a sharp fall in the Nasdaq Composite, we turned neutral on tech stocks.

2018: Stocks before and during the pandemic
GIS downgraded global equities in June 2018 based on the prospects of slowing global growth and an increasingly hawkish Fed. We repeatedly cautioned clients against “buying the dip” as stocks began to plunge in October. The GIS service turned bullish on equities in late 2018 and this upgrade proved timely, with global equities engaging on a good run in 2019. We forewarned that investors were too complacent about the coronavirus at the end of February of 2020. As the market crash was unfolding, we argued in March 2020 that the year would end up looking more like 1998 than a 1918 Spanish flu-type scenario. We also laid out the thesis that the pandemic could lead to higher stock prices in April 2020, one that was regarded with much skepticism at the time.

2016: End of the Bond Bull Market
After being in the “deflationary” camp for many years, GIS shifted its view on bonds towards a more bearish stance in July 2016. Our note entitled “End Of The 35-Year Bond Bull Market” came out on the same day the US 10-year Treasury yield reached a pre-Covid closing low of 1.37%. We argued correctly at the time that both cyclical and structural forces would conspire to put in a bottom for yields. This view was upended by the pandemic, but it also gave us another chance to play the upside in yields. We initiated a short 10-year Treasury trade at a yield of 1.45% in June 2021 which we closed in October 2022 for a double-digit gain.

2015: Populist Wave
We began discussing the new age of populism quite early on. GIS predicted that Donald Trump would become president. In early June 2016, GIS began flagging that the Brexit vote was too close to call. In an aptly titled report “Worry About Brexit, Not Payrolls,” GIS warned that investors were greatly understating the risks that on June 23rd, the British population would reject the European establishment by voting in favor of Brexit, an event which ultimately came to pass.

2014: Long Dollar
The Global Investment Strategy instated a long US dollar (DXY) position in late-2014, with nuances added along the way. Staying with this position until April 2019 was a profitable course of action, as it generated a double-digit positive return.

2011: Peak Commodity
Identifying turning points of secular trends in financial assets is a critical part of what the Global Investment Strategy (GIS) service can deliver to its client base. In May 2011, Peter Berezin presented a speech entitled “The Coming Commodity Bust” at a conference in Saudi Arabia. As one of the only bearish voices on the stage, he argued that the fundamentals underpinning the commodity boom had broken down and that it was time to turn more cautious on oil and metals.

Global Investment Strategy

Peter Berezin

Chief Strategist

Peter is currently BCA Research’s Chief Global Strategist and Research Director. Since joining BCA Research in 2010, he has served as Managing Editor of The Bank Credit Analyst as well as helping to develop and launch BCA Research’s Equity Analyzer Service. Peter focuses on analyzing global economic and financial market trends. Prior to BCA Research, Peter worked as a Senior Global Economist with Goldman Sachs. Peter has also spent time in the research department of the International Monetary Fund. Peter has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from McMaster University, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Global Investment Strategy

Ritika Mankar, CFA

Senior Strategist

Ritika works as a Senior Strategist at BCA’s Global Investment Strategy service working closely with Peter Berezin, BCA’s Director of Research. She is best known for her iconoclastic Special Reports and top calls such as predicting the Bank of Japan’s once-in-a-generation hawkish pivot.

Ritika is a sell-side veteran having worked in the industry for a decade-and-a-half. Prior to joining BCA, Ritika headed the Macro/Strategy franchise at Ambit Capital i.e., a prominent Indian investment bank. The franchise that she managed at Ambit was rated as one of the top three macro franchises in India. Besides working in leadership roles at investment banks, Ritika has served as a Director on CFA Society India’s Board as the Board’s first woman director. In terms of her education, Ritika is a CFA charter holder and has a Bachelors as well as a Masters in Economics.