In this webinar, Christoph Schon, CFA, will demonstrate how a stress-testing framework can be used to support the decision whether to hedge one’s currency exposure when investing abroad, depending on expected returns and cross-asset correlations.

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.

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.

April 20, 2021 – 10:40 (BST) | 11:40 (CET)

Rodolphe Bocquet, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment, will be joining a panel discussing about: “Will Intelligent ESG and sustainable investing become the new norm and could the pandemic be a turning point?”

May 18, 2021 – 2:00 p.m.  (BST) | 9:00 (ET)

Qontigo are a proud sponsor of the Alpha Summit by CFA Institute.

A rise in inflation expectations above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target in the first quarter of 2021 triggered a sudden surge in long-term Treasury yields, which had been trading in relatively narrow ranges for most of 2020. It also led equity investors to re-evaluate their interest rate expectations, resulting in (temporary) halt of the spectacular stock market recovery. The dollar also began to strengthen once more on the prospect of higher rates and a widening economic growth differential with the rest of the world. Join Christoph Schon in this webinar to hear how these changes in cross-asset interactions affected the risk of global multi-asset class portfolios.