The ongoing surge in US consumer prices remained at the top of investors’ minds in the second quarter of 2021, but persistent reassurances from the Federal Reserve meant that share prices kept rising to new highs, while bond markets once more benefitted from accommodative central-bank policies. The resulting co-movement of the two major asset classes led to reduced diversification opportunities, with the strengthening dollar and COVID-induced safe-haven flows providing only limited relief.

Join Christoph Schon in this webinar to hear how these changes in cross-asset interactions affected the risk of global multi-asset class portfolios.

Join the Qontigo Applied Research team as we review the key drivers of risk in the previous quarter and draw insights into what might be in store for investors in the next quarter. We will decompose market risk for equities, fixed income, and multi-asset class markets using Qontigo’s fundamental multi-factor risk models, and take a look at how they have shaped investor sentiment in the previous three months. Our goal will be to identify which risks paid-off, which ones didn’t and if investors are changing their minds about what has been working for them in the recent past versus what they believe will work for them in the near future.

June 30, 2021

Qontigo’s David Antonio joins Charles River product experts Shashi Mahadik and Jared Martin to discuss our partnership and ways that investment firms and asset owners can leverage the Axioma Factor-based Fixed Income Risk Model to gain clearer insights into the drivers impacting portfolio performance.

June 16, 2021

Rodolphe Bocquet, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment, will be joining a panel discussing about: “The next chapter of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) story…key outcomes for investment”

July 6, 2021

The macroeconomy has dominated financial news for much of 2021, driven at least partly by the specter of rising inflation and corresponding back-up in long-term interest rates. But building macroeconomic risk models to quantify, and perhaps mitigate the impact is a daunting and sometimes unproductive pursuit.

Volatility has calmed considerably, compared with a year—and even six months—ago. Predicted market, currency, country, industry, and factor risks are almost all at the low ends of their 12-month ranges. In addition, many factors are behaving “as expected”, after having defied long-term expectations for a year or more. In this webinar, we delve into the current state of risk—as we attempt to determine if the “new normal” is, in fact, the “old normal”.