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Multi Asset: Regional

European Investment Strategy

BCA Research's European Investment Strategy identifies outstanding investment opportunities both within Europe and outside Europe.

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  • Recommendations in all major asset classes and time horizons from three-month trades to multi-year structural themes
  • Weekly reports updating our views and their interaction with ongoing data and news flow
  • Special Reports conducting a deep dive into individual market or economic topics
  • Webcasts, conference calls and one-on-one meetings on request for long-only and long-short investors

“We are truly unconstrained, out-of-the-box, independent thinkers with a proven record of calling the European markets right.”

Mathieu Savary Chief Strategist,

European Investment Strategy

How we do it

  • Our unique credit cycle-based approach consistently predicts turning-points in the economy and markets
  • EIS uses a highly successful sector-based approach for regional and country stock market allocation
  • Our proprietary fractal analysis provides red flags for imminent trend changes in any investment

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Some of what we have called

Equities
The outperformance of defensive sectors through most of 2018, with booked profits of 25% in just 7 months.

Rates
The pause in Fed rate hikes at the end of 2018.

Currencies
The euro rally in 2017 and the yen rally in 2018, generating a combined gain of 25%.

Alternatives
The top of the cryptocurrency boom in 2017 and the bottom of the bust in 2018, with booked profits of 140%.

European Investment Strategy

Mathieu Savary

Chief Strategist

Prior to his role in leading the European Investment Strategy, Mathieu was the BCA Research Strategist for The Bank Credit Analyst and Daily Insights. From 2016 to 2019, he headed BCA Research’s Foreign Exchange Strategy service. He has also served as Senior Editor of the Global Investment Strategy service and as a Research Analyst for the European Investment Strategy service. Moreover, Mathieu was one of the two developers of BCA Research’s “Principles of Global Macro” seminar, a course he still teaches to investors around the world. Prior to BCA Research, Mathieu held the position of Global Macro Research Analyst with Brandywine Global Investment Management. Mathieu holds a BCom in Finance and Economics from McGill University, and the CFA designation.

Examples of our work

European Investment Strategy

Why 2019 Is The Mirror-Image Of 2018

January 10 2019

The year of 2019 will be the investment mirror-image of 2018. Start with a pro-cyclical tilt, but expect to shift gradually to pro-defensive as the year progresses.

European Investment Strategy

Buying European Clothes: An Investment Megatrend

December 06 2018

The European stock market has a hidden gem: its clothing and accessories sector. Since the turn of the millennium, the sector’s profits are up by a thousand percent.

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