State of the Markets Webinar (Video)
March 8, 2023 — We welcome you to view QuantStreet’s latest State of the Markets Webinar. QuantStreet Capital offers portfolio management services to financial advisers, institutional investors, and individual investors. Learn more at quantstreetcapital.com. QuantStreet’s CIO, Dr. Harry Mamaysky, presents a quarterly State of the Markets webinar. IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLOSURE This webinar is provided for […]
The Rate-Related Sell-Off Isn’t As Bad As It Looks
March 5, 2023 – Summary Inflationary fears have reasserted themselves among investors in the last month. This has led to an upward revision to the Federal Reserve’s target rate trajectory, increased Treasury yields, and lower stock prices. The data supports a more sanguine view of inflation, as headline inflation, goods, and commodity price pressures remain […]
Short-Term Cash Management
March 1, 2023 — This article was written in advance of a summer camp industry presentation, which you can watch here. Read about QuantStreet’s camp services here. Overview In late-winter and early-spring many camps find themselves in a cash-rich position, as camper tuition has been charged, while most of the expenses of running camp do […]
Asset Class Returns In 2022 And 2023: Investor Takeaways
February 18, 2023 — What a Difference a Year Makes We examine the 2022 and 2023 year-to-date performance of the major asset classes. Many of the successful “smart-money” trades of 2022 are underperforming in 2023.The investor underweights from 2022 are having a good year. The 2022 smart-money trades still feel like the right ones, but […]
Taking Stock of the Major Themes of 2022
February 3, 2023 — Overview One month into 2023, we take a pause to reflect on the major investing themes of 2022 and assess how these might play out in 2023. The dominant market theme of 2022 was the onset of global inflation and the subsequent central bank responses. Some argue that central banks were […]
January Market Insights
January 5, 2023 — QuantStreet’s Performance in December of 2022 After a very strong performance in October and November of 2022, December was a down month for us, and for global markets in general. We did better in December than the S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes, which both had weak months, while underperforming the MSCI […]
Crude Oil Markets in Six Charts
December 22, 2022 — 2022 has been a year of geopolitical tumult and of financial market volatility. These two major themes mixed together in the global oil market to produce a somewhat bewildering year of rallies, sell-offs, and supply and demand uncertainty. We will try to make sense of the situation by looking at six […]
U.S. Position in the Current Economic Cycle Relative to Global Peers
December 14, 2022 — With the December 14, 2022 Federal Reserve policy decision out of the way – and largely in line with expectations – we can take a step back and look at where U.S. monetary policy is vis-a-vis other central banks. Figure 1 shows the U.S. 2s-10s curve (10-year government bond yields minus […]
State of the Markets Webinar (Video)
December 7, 2022 — We welcome you to view QuantStreet’s State of the Markets Webinar. QuantStreet Capital offers portfolio management services to financial advisers, institutional investors, and individual investors. Learn more at quantstreetcapital.com. QuantStreet’s CIO, Dr. Harry Mamaysky, presents a quarterly State of the Markets webinar. IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCLOSURE This webinar is provided for general […]
QuantStreet’s First Year in Review
December 5, 2022 — Year in Review The end of November 2022 marks one year since our launch [1], so we decided to get in front of the crowd by one month and share our year-end retrospective in early December. The year began with the economy and financial markets still in a euphoric, post Covid-19 […]