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Monthly comment November saw heightened volatility across financial markets, driven by the dramatic US election, Trump’s victory, his controversial cabinet nominations, fluctuating interest rates and currencies, geopolitical tensions as well as the earnings season. Donald Trump secured both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Republicans gained control of the Senate and the House of […]

Comment by: Hugo Schmidt, Portfolio Manager – Healthcare Services and Tools The healthcare sector is one of the world’s most regulated, and the US election naturally has significant impact on future policy decisions. We identify a number of key points from the new administration and Congress that we believe will influence the sector: The Trump […]

Monthly comment – October 2024 During October, the focus was initially on the earnings season where financials performed well. However, the high degree of uncertainty surrounding the election in the US increasingly led to heightened market volatility, where both sectors and individual stocks were affected by the polls. There were significant differences in currencies as […]

As in the previous month, September began with a spike in volatility. Mixed economic data, interest rate uncertainties and geopolitical tensions, all added to a weak start. With the benefit of hindsight, after nine out of the past ten months ended in the green, some profit-taking was perhaps to be expected, particularly bearing in mind […]

Rhenman & Partners hires Mattias Hagen as Investor Relations Director. Mattias joins Rhenman & Partners Investor Relations team based in Stockholm consisting of Erica von Bahr and Tom Josephson. In his role, Mattias will work both with Swedish and international investors. Most recently Mattias has worked with institutional investors at Carnegie Fonder. Prior to that […]

SUMMARY August started with a spike in volatility. Despite the initial stress, stock markets increased during the month, with the world index up 2.5 percent, measured in US dollars. Several central banks have now signalled their intention to cut interest rates in the coming months. The US election campaign is in full swing with continued […]

Artificial Intelligence and earnings trumped rates and politics. Even though worries over possible rate cut delays by central banks, and the increasingly uncertain political and geopolitical landscape weighed down on investor sentiment, equity markets overall rose in May, led yet again by technology stocks. Interest rate setback The stickier-than-expected inflation made for yet another setback […]

Rates and geopolitics versus earnings! Following five months of positive equity market returns, April turned out to be a somewhat harder month to navigate. The hopes for fast upcoming cuts from central banks were again dashed by stickier inflation, especially in the US, leading to yet another delay in when it could be expected. At […]

What a difference a year makes! Even though stock markets performed well during the first quarter of 2023, the beginning of 2024 has been characterized by a much more ebullient mood. The dark scenarios that dominated investment banks’ strategies in early 2023 did not materialize and investors’ appetite for risk successively increased throughout the year, […]