Thoughts on market events

Modern asset management involves a whole host of measures with the goal of real preservation of capital over the investment horizon. The framework conditions established with the asset owner - such as liquidity requirements, tolerance of fluctuations, the quality of individual components and diversification over different investment classes - are a significant influence in this regard.

A clear analysis and evaluation of the framework conditions is essential to both the fundamental strategic orientation and tactical investment decisions. BPM's flexible "buy and hold" strategy is based on ongoing analysis of the international capital markets and the most likely activity of the key actors in the economic system: private households, companies, banks and national governments as well as their debt levels.

We make our view of the current situation, our prognosis of probable developments and their impact on different investment classes available to our investors through regular publications.

14.09.2012

Market Comment September 2012

"Hope dies last" – numerous economics, fund managers and investors certainly had this idea before Mario Draghi's decisive speech on 6 September 2012. And they were disappointed. Draghi, as the mouthpiece of a Mediterranean-dominated supremacy in the ECB presidency, opened Pandora's box...

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26.06.2012

Market Comment June 2012

There’s much agitation in national parliaments, in bank trading rooms and amongst the families of wealthy investors. No matter where one looks, the effects of a Greek exit from the Euro are discussed feverishly, sometimes even fuelled by sheer panic. There’s already a catchy term for it - GREXIT!...

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18.04.2012

Professional Article of the Management April 2012

Guest editorial for DC Finance's "Family Wealth" Magazine “International allocation of asset portfolios – paradigm shift in the competition between locations?”...

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07.03.2012

Market Comment March 2012

Is it possible to make a boiled egg runny again? After the continuing flooding of the markets, can the FED, and now also the ECB, ever get back to the path of sustained monetary stability with limitless and cost-free liquidity alone? Do they even want to do that?...

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15.12.2011

Market Comment December 2011

Whatever you may think of the Germans, the Dutch and the Finns, there’s no denying that their bifurcated approach of embedding efforts to find a solution to the current problems in a long-term sustainable strategic concept in the interest of safeguarding the collective wealth of European nations is both important and right...

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