The Central Bank of the world, the Federal Reserve, protects your portfolio. 2020 started out promising. The world was spinning at full speed. But the COVID-19 virus suddenly brought the world, as we knew it, to a standstill resulting in battles being fought on three fronts: 1) Firstly, this is a health crisis of unprecedented […]

The past few weeks have been severely impacted by the corona virus and our top priority is to guarantee the health and safety of our customers and employees. This is why, for some time now, CapitalatWork Foyer Group has taken internal measures and deployed the necessary IT installations in order to protect our employees and […]

We cannot repeat it often enough: corrections such as those we are seeing today are an inevitable part of investing. The average correction, the kind that we experience each year, is about 14%. The current fall of approx. -30% is exceptional. However, the speed at which it is happening is very exceptional. The reason, as […]

Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus, a shock-wave has hit the financial markets. In the past week, stock markets around the globe suffered as seldom seen before. During these dire times, we feel the need to share our views on the markets with you. We are faced with a ‘black swan’ effect, since nobody expected […]

For most investors, 2019 turned out to be a great year. Interest rates, which once again dropped sharply during the year, were the driving force behind these excellent results. The most important reference points in 2019 were: · The German 10 year Bund dropped from +0,2% to -0,3% · The US 10 year Treasury Bills […]

Fixed Income The ECB as expected announced in September a list of decisions to prop up inflation expectations: the interest rate of the deposit facility was lowered by -0,10% to -0.50%, an APP Asset Purchase Program, a new QE, will kick off as of 1 November, at a monthly pace of EUR 20bn, as long […]