Category: Investment Insights
JP Morgan’s Healthcare conference, in the second week of January, has become a traditional rendez-vous for investors. It is where numerous healthcare companies gather to kick off the year, discussing the latest developments in their respective businesses. The 2024 edition proved, yet again, a mine of information, warranting a summarised account here – and perhaps […]
The holiday season has come and gone, with its usual shopping frenzy. What has long been known as “Black Friday” probably warrants renaming into “Red Friday” though. Indeed, e-commerce took on a decidedly cross-border tone this Christmas, with Chinese platforms disrupting the market and testing the limits of US tariff laws. Which in turn could […]
More than just another running competition, the early December Course de l’Escalade has become a true Geneva tradition. And what drives thousands of participants, of all ages and levels, to regularly don their sporting gear despite bleak autumn weather conditions and dwindling daylight time. Beyond the actual results on the day of the race, such […]
Global dependency on a few specific regions for semiconductor and pharmaceutical manufacturing has long been a concern. In both of these critical industries, a shift towards reshoring — bringing manufacturing back to home countries — has been gaining traction recently. A move driven by a number of factors, including geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, and […]
If deciphering the economic cycle has never been this difficult, it is certainly because other, more structural forces are currently at play. Beyond complicating the interpretation of economic reports, the Covid pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine have also served to accelerate some underlying trends. It is quite possible that we stand today on the […]
Beneath the majestic sweep of an airplane’s wings lies a world of contradictions. For the excitement of discovering new destinations often also entails guilt about the carbon footprint that such travel leaves. What if we could ease this conflict and find a way to balance our desire to fly with that of taking care of […]
The travel industry is on fire in this 2023 summer season. A sharp recovery in demand, record-breaking customer bookings, China’s reopening, renewed pricing power: most companies are currently enjoying margins at or above pre-pandemic levels.Beware, however, not to fully give in to the prevailing euphoria. In a world of high interest rates and slowing economic […]
Given the media and market hype surrounding Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days, let us here take a step back and adopt a more balanced view. AI is not likely to fully replace Human Intelligence (HI) but will rather enhance it, augment it, and ultimately enable it to continue to lead mankind’s innovation and evolution. […]
The time to consider increase small- and mid-cap exposure is now! Over the past few months, these stocks have underperformed their larger peers by a wide margin, to the point, we would argue, of already pricing in a recession. Together with their currently attractive valuation ratios and historically demonstrated tendency to shine early in the […]
In this celebratory issue, we look back to all that has occurred – in financial markets and the world more generally – during the last 100 months. And, must we say, what a ride these eight and something years have been! Our first “Investment Insights” was written just weeks after the Swiss National Bank (SNB) […]
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) happened largely online, but in essence it was no different to what generations of children have watched in Mary Poppins. When young Michael protests that he wants his tuppence back (to feed the street pigeons!), other customers question whether their own money is really “safe and sound” – […]
