European Equities
European Equities: Is there value in the periphery?
01 Mar 2013
The most troubled countries in Europe appear to be turning a corner. Joseph Mariathasan looks at the opportunities in their equity markets, and asks if investors should go for quality or the more...
European Equities: Debating ‘quality’
01 Mar 2013
Martin Steward finds three strategies, each with impressive longevity, illustrating three very different interpretations of ‘quality’ in European equities
European Equities: A stockpickers’ environment…
01 Mar 2012
… if you can wait a decade for active risk to pay off. Joseph Mariathasan finds managers enjoying rich pickings for the long term, by taking account of – but also looking through – the dominant...
European Equities: The middle way
01 Mar 2012
Successful risk-taking in European equities during 2011 was more nuanced than it first appears, finds Martin Steward
European Equities: Two different routes to risk
01 Mar 2012
How should you be positioned at the inflection point of one of the strangest economic cycles in history? Martin Steward finds the consistent performers rotating into pro-cyclical stocks in both...
European Equities: Staying in style
01 Mar 2012
Surprisingly, Martin Steward finds that it was just about possible for pan-European contrarian value to hang in there during 2011’s quality-growth world
European Equities: ‘You can’t handle the truth’
01 Mar 2012
Martin Steward considers a contrarian strategy that is not afraid to go neutral when the market is not in contrarian mood
European Equities: Stock prices follow earnings? Sometimes...
01 Mar 2012
Frédéric Dodard looks at European stocks through the 1970s, 80s, 90s and 2000s and finds that the market will often pay much less for companies – or much more – than the fair price suggested by their ...
European Equities: A heterogeneous marketplace
01 Mar 2011
Top-performing European equity portfolios are both concentrated and very diverse in outlook and composition, finds Joseph Mariathasan
European Equities: UK equities: The Liontrust approach
01 Mar 2011
The UK equity market is still distinct from that of continental Europe because of factors such as its size, the large number of multi-nationals and mid-sized companies with global presence, and a...
European Equities: Corporate strength abounds
01 Mar 2011
The picture is complex, but in general low indebtedness and high return on equity will cause capital flows to CEE corporates, writes Juraj Kotian
European equities: Never out of style
01 Mar 2010
Managing European equities has to be about avoiding style biases, finds Joseph Mariathasan. He speaks to five managers who have squeezed alpha from very different markets with very distinct strategies
Value traps
01 Mar 2010
Michele Gambera uses UK equities to reveal how excluding or including companies with negative earnings skews the P/E ratio of the market
A nuclear winter?
10 Mar 2009
Managers are working out when and how to position their portfolios to benefit from an eventual economic recovery,finds Joseph Mariathasan
