Stargazer Asset Management Weekly – August 16 2021

This week we look at the broad state of markets including EM, Europe and the tight ranges in FX.

BY ERIC FILL

SAM Weekly _ August 16 2021

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MI2 Partners: Thoughts From The Divide: Blame Game – 11th April

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While many love rollercoasters, the consensus in the office is that we have aged out, proving that you really can’t please all of the people all of the time. And so it was with “Liberation Day”. For market folk, the glass was clearly half-empty and investors seemed conflicted about their “liberation”: from close April 2nd to close April 8th, the S&P500 fell around 12%. Scott Bessent seemed nonplussed, repeating some stats about the distribution of stock ownership among Americans (hint: 50% of people don’t have any). It turns out the Tree of Liberty doesn’t only need periodic infusions of the blood of patriots and tyrants: it also swallows 401k gains. Read more →

C8 Weekly Bulletin: Thor Financial now available on C8 Studio

BY JON WEBB

C8 Technologies is pleased to announce that five indices derived from Thor Financial Technologies will now be available through the C8 platform. The strategies will be available to C8 clients to be accessed through direct indexing and will be fully included in C8 studio and thus available to be combined with other strategies and allocations optimized to create complete portfolio solutions for clients. Read more →

MI2 Partners: Thoughts From The Divide: Rules and Guidelines

BY JON WEBB

In our note from April of 2020, which now feels like half a lifetime ago rather than less than 5 years (it’s not the years but the miles?), we wrote about how COVID and the related crises had “made it clear that in many ways, reality is more like Calvinball” than an orderly system: one where “the rules of the game around the world appear to be in flux”. This week has provided yet more evidence, if any more was needed, for this view. Read more →

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