Dictionary of Equity Market Terms
Given the corona and holiday season, some humour with a serious background is probably more appropriate than a theoretical discourse. The following selection of terms for the letters of the alphabet is not entirely arbitrary but is intended to entertain. Alpha: Price gain or loss thanks to…
Economic and Real Estate Outlook Switzerland
We provide a brief overview of how Swiss real estate is affected by the Corona crisis. While residential real estate should be less affected, office real estate and shopping centers will come under pressure. Legal uncertainty prevails about owed rents for premises that were not allowed to be used…
The dilemma of health versus economy
The emergency phase of the COVID 19 pandemic is slowly coming to an end. No government was prepared for it, and too many failed in the initial assessment but did what they could afterwards. In the current second phase, however, any mistakes will not be easy to excuse. The authorities must better…
COVID 19 pandemic – a challenge at all levels of the company and an opportunity for new ideas
On Wikipedia the coronavirus pandemic is described as an outbreak of the newly emerged respiratory disease COVID-19. This disease first became apparent in December 2019 in the megacity of Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei, developed into an epidemic in China in January 2020, and finally spread…
Risks associated with equity investments
After an upward trend for more than a decade, the first quarter of 2020 has once again made investors aware of the risks associated with equity investments. Although April recovered a good part of the losses, the reasons for this recovery are anything but sound. They are based on the expectation…
Managed Markets
Managed financial markets? The upside-down world in art and financial markets We try to analyse the financial markets against the background of the massive stimuli provided by central banks and the huge government rescue packages. You will also learn what central bank policy might have to do with…