Europe
There is a popular belief that the failure of European markets to keep pace with the U.S. over the past decade is caused by overweight positions to banks, which have struggled in the post-crisis environment, and the absence of firms comparable to the U.S. tech giants. We examine this narrative and offers different strategies to include European equities in your portfolio.
Investors can be forgiven for taking their eyes off EUR/CAD lately, with all the urgent drama in Q4. But the euro may get restless. Jeff Weniger discusses the prospects for the euro versus the Canadian dollar in 2019.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may find a four-leaf clover in the form of an implicit bailout from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi. Jeff Weniger takes a look at country-level risks to find angles on European equities with potentially mitigated downside from Turkish contagion.
With the Turkish lira against the ropes and emerging markets heavily sold off this year, how can European equity risk be tamed?