Guerra/Conflicto

Incluso si Irán intenta revivir las conversaciones, Estados Unidos tiene una oportunidad irresistible para desmantelar su programa nuclear. Tácticamente, los inversionistas deberían favorecer los bonos del Tesoro sobre el S&P, los sectores defensivos sobre los cíclicos, las acciones de energía sobre los cíclicos y las acciones estadounidenses sobre las europeas a corto plazo. 

Los ataques de Israel a Irán continuarán hasta que Irán se vea obligado a atacar el suministro regional de petróleo para que Estados Unidos frene a Israel. Eso podría no funcionar. Los inversores deben prepararse para un impacto económico más amplio del conflicto. 

Investors should hold gold, build up some cash, tactically overweight US equities relative to global, and prepare for at least minor oil supply shocks – possibly major shocks – as the Israel-Iran war escalates.

In our Beta report, we focus on our decade view. Many of our global allocator clients are scrambling to incorporate geopolitics into their strategic asset allocation. For most, this means thinking about war… or about future end-states. This is a mistake. We consider the next five years (maybe a decade) as the transition to the new era, a transition away from American unipolarity. And the transition itself is investment relevant. A transition to a multipolar world – which we think is occurring – will crush the USD and favor non-US assets. A transition to a bipolar world – not our base case, but still possible – would do the opposite. 

Russia has strong incentives to sign a ceasefire with Ukraine – namely its weak economy as the oil price falls. European assets will continue to benefit. 

Erdogan's rule continues to decline. Social unrest will persist, governance will erode, and the macro backdrop will deteriorate further. We recommend underweighting Turkish assets. 

Negotiations on trade, Iran, and Ukraine will prove critical this month. Markets will remain volatile because positive data surprises enable the White House to press its hawkish tariff hikes, while negative surprises force the White House to backpedal.