Strategy Update: January 2026 Between Uncertainty and Opportunity: What Will 2026 Bring? Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN 2025 Artificial intelligence remained the dominant investment trend in equity markets throughout 2025. Above all, major US technology companies benefited disproportionately, leading to even greater concentration in key indices.…
Strategy Update: December 2025 How Apple Became Safer Than the USA Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN NOVEMBER The days leading up to Nvidia‘s quarterly earnings at the end of November were tense. For days, headlines dominated the news warning of an AI bubble. Technology stocks plummeted,…
Strategy Update: November 2025 We did the math: USD 10 Billion in Losses, USD 500 Billion Valuation, 20 Nuclear Reactors – AI Breakthrough or Madness? Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN OCTOBER Earnings season is in full swing and American companies are surprising with impressive figures. 87%…
Strategy Update: October 2025 Stay the Boss of Your Thinking – How AI is Literally Changing Our Brain Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN SEPTEMBER At the beginning of the month, the ECB kept its deposit rate constant at 2 percent after eight rate cuts since summer…
Strategy Update: September 2025 How tariffs and gold distort global trade Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN AUGUST The month began with a bang – not because of Swiss National Day, but due to the 39% tariffs imposed by the US on Swiss products on August 7.…
Strategy Update: August 2025 Agreement for now in the tariff dispute, overcapacities in China and unchanged interest rate policies Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN JULY At the beginning of the month, the Senate passed Trump‘s „Big Beautiful Bill“ – but as it turned out, not everything…
Strategy Update: July 2025 How Pension Fund Investment Behavior Drives Global Stock Markets and Resembles the Former Soviet Union Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN JUNE June was characterized by geopolitical tensions and uncertainties that led to volatility in financial markets. Following Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear…
Strategy Update: June 2025 Equity indices as a reflection of structural change Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN MAY Back and forth – this probably best de-scribes the events surrounding US Pres-ident Donald Trump‘s ‘tariff policy’. At the beginning of the month, the US and China agreed…
Strategy Update: May 2025 Big Picture -Focus on tariffs: What investors need to know about causes, history and current geopolitics Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download here. REVIEW THE FINANCIAL MARKETS IN APRIL Liberation Day will probably go down in the history books. On April 2, the incumbent US President Donald Trump announced…
Strategy Update: April 2025 Politics, consumption, and semiconductors in transition – A look at global shifts, consumer behavior, and technological drivers Prefer to read it as a PDF? Download it here. REVIEW The financial markets in March Political statements on tariffs, investments, defence and fiscal policy continue to dominate everyday life on the financial markets.…
