Macroeconomic and Investing, The Macro Compass

Alfonso Peccatiello (Alf)

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<ul><li>The first 5 weeks of the year have seen international equities outperforming the S&amp;P 500: European and Chinese stocks have rallied harder than US stock indexes, and certain emerging markets like Chile or Poland are doing even better.</li><li>My main thesis for the first half of the year remains to be positioned with an ‘’International Risk Parity’’ portfolio: long US bonds, and long stocks around the world.</li><li>The chart above shows that the US growth exceptionalism might be over. The Aggregate Income Growth series is a great proxy for nominal growth in real time: it includes private sector job creation, workweek hours, and wage growth – effectively reflecting the growth rate of nominal income US workers are bringing home.</li></ul>

The first 5 weeks of the year have seen international equities outperforming the S&amp;P 500: European and Chinese stocks have rallied harder than US stock indexes, and certain emerging markets like Chile or Poland are doing even better.My main thesis for the first half of the year remains to be positioned with an ‘’International Risk Parity’’ portfolio: long US bonds, and long stocks around the world.The chart above shows that the US growth exceptionalism might be over. The Aggregate Income Growth series is a great proxy for nominal growth in real time: it includes private sector job creation, workweek hours, and wage growth – effectively reflecting the growth rate of nominal income US workers are bringing home.

High Conviction Concentrated Growth Investing, Fallacy Alarm

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High conviction concentrated growth investing. Blends single stock, macro and thematic research into powerful long and short ideas. I am convinced that a robust and comprehensive investment process requires macro and micro considerations. And it requires a deep understanding what you are looking for and what you are invested in. Digitization has changed the dynamics both how businesses operate and how investors compete for returns. Ideas can scale much faster and fail much faster than before. The biggest value creation happens before it can be spotted in financial statements. As a result, my approach can be best summarized as high conviction, high concentration growth investing, embedded into a macro framework built on the realization that our current demographic set-up, monetary paradigm and innovation cycle will likely deliver a strong decade for nominal and real returns of productive assets.

Technical Analysis

<ul><li>Since late 2023, Momentum has been outperforming all other investment factors with a persistency and a dominance that has rarely been observed before.</li><li>The convergence of three feedback loops makes that possible.</li><li>Interest Loop: Interest expenses are now accounting for 60% of the Treasury’s deficit.</li></ul>

Since late 2023, Momentum has been outperforming all other investment factors with a persistency and a dominance that has rarely been observed before.The convergence of three feedback loops makes that possible.Interest Loop: Interest expenses are now accounting for 60% of the Treasury’s deficit.

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Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>By Agecroft Partners, September 2026 Property catastrophe reinsurance , also marketed as insurance linked strategies (ILS), is a hedge fund strategy that many of the largest pension, sovereign wealth, and endowment funds have exposure to and there are 4 reasons other institutional investors should consider the strategy.</li><li>Forward modeled returns remain competitive with most fixed-income-oriented alternatives When evaluating reinsurance as a strategy, forward-looking modeled returns are more important than historical returns.</li><li>When evaluating reinsurance as a strategy, forward-looking modeled returns are more important than historical returns.</li></ul>

By Agecroft Partners, September 2026 Property catastrophe reinsurance , also marketed as insurance linked strategies (ILS), is a hedge fund strategy that many of the largest pension, sovereign wealth, and endowment funds have exposure to and there are 4 reasons other institutional investors should consider the strategy.Forward modeled returns remain competitive with most fixed-income-oriented alternatives When evaluating reinsurance as a strategy, forward-looking modeled returns are more important than historical returns.When evaluating reinsurance as a strategy, forward-looking modeled returns are more important than historical returns.

Four Reasons Institutional Investors Should Consider Reinsurance

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Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Making Sense of the Narrative

<ul><li>The famous Gilray cartoon of Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world has ironic resonance as Russia and the US meet up in Saudi Arabia this week with UK, Europe and Ukraine are not even invited.</li><li>To be fair, this is more about re-establishing US/Russia relations before any progress can be made on Ukraine, but the, now perpetually outraged, EU politicians, still smarting from their telling off by JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference last week, should perhaps be reflecting on the notion that the US may be taking a more Palmerston-like view to alliances…</li><li>Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England.</li></ul>

The famous Gilray cartoon of Pitt and Napoleon carving up the world has ironic resonance as Russia and the US meet up in Saudi Arabia this week with UK, Europe and Ukraine are not even invited.To be fair, this is more about re-establishing US/Russia relations before any progress can be made on Ukraine, but the, now perpetually outraged, EU politicians, still smarting from their telling off by JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference last week, should perhaps be reflecting on the notion that the US may be taking a more Palmerston-like view to alliances…Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England.

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<ul><li>Zooming out first for a big picture perspective - helpful away from the news &amp; chatter:</li><li>Bears Make Headlines &amp; Lose Money, Bulls Make Money! As always … !</li><li>The bear case sounds very smart very often, only problem is, it’s quite rarely right … !</li></ul>

Zooming out first for a big picture perspective - helpful away from the news &amp; chatter:Bears Make Headlines &amp; Lose Money, Bulls Make Money! As always … !The bear case sounds very smart very often, only problem is, it’s quite rarely right … !

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Eternal and Perpetual

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