Abhimanyu Chatterjee

We are in the middle of a synchronized downturn. Analysis of the quarter or quarter change in GDP globally and in the US makes grim reading – worse than anything observed in the past. Partially, this is due to the global reduction in activity through lockdown restrictions to mobility. Yet, if equities were to be […]

Looking back over the first half of the year, January seems to be a completely different era. In between, an unprecedented health crisis has uprooted medical care, financial markets and the prospects for the global economy. In spite of the sharp rebound in markets, allocators are still reeling from the vehemence of the sell-off. As […]

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By Abhi Chatterjee, Chief Investment Strategist In the last six weeks, I have seen more from my home office desk than all the time I have previously spent in my career on trading desks. To recap, what have we witnessed? The single largest day increase in VIX since 1990 Two of the largest daily falls […]

By Abhi Chatterjee, Chief Investment Strategist The ‘Corona Crash’ The Covid-19 outbreak triggered a geo-economic panic, resulting in an unprecedented spike in global equity market volatility, with severe declines exceeding 20% and extreme daily swings on a scale comparable to the financial crash of 2008. Thus, we dramatically marked the end of a remarkably resilient […]

Between 16-19 March, financial markets, as we had known them, were a thing of the past. If one took data from the S&P 500 since 1927 and the FTSE 100 from 1984, and calculated the largest single day losses, two days in March 2020 make the top 10 largest ever single day losses – only […]

Investment in Physical Property has been a cornerstone for multi-asset solutions. However, investing in Physical Property through investments funds, which provide daily liquidity can cause liquidity mismatches. While the impact of this liquidity mismatch is not observable under normal market conditions, periodically, when these inherently illiquid investments are subject to large amounts of redemption, the […]