Founder Evidente. Top rated quantitative analyst, Evidente

Sam Ferraro

Founder Evidente. Top rated quantitative analyst

Evidente

Evidente is an independent financial education firm that delivers innovative financial advice to wholesale investors, including active long only funds, hedge funds, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in Australia and globally.  Drawing on academic research in asset pricing, behavioural finance and portfolio construction, Evidente provides wholesale investors with commercial solutions to stock selection and asset allocation decisions across equities and other asset classes.

Equity Bottom-Up

iShares MSCI Australia / Equity Bottom-Up

<span style='font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>Although still in its infancy, 2015 has so far been a frenetic one for central banks around the world, in what has been a series of synchronised (but uncoordinated) monetary easings.&nbsp; Central banks in Switzerland, Denmark, Turkey, Canada and Peru have cut their official interest rates and&nbsp;the ECB has&nbsp;extended and expanded its program of quantitative easing.&nbsp; In this post, I discuss the implications of the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to ease for the RBA’s policy deliberations, suggest that the RBA should reduce the cash rate to 2% by June and undertake a quantitative analysis which indicates that domestic cyclicals are unlikely to benefit from rate cuts.

Although still in its infancy, 2015 has so far been a frenetic one for central banks around the world, in what has been a series of synchronised (but uncoordinated) monetary easings.&nbsp; Central banks in Switzerland, Denmark, Turkey, Canada and Peru have cut their official interest rates and&nbsp;the ECB has&nbsp;extended and expanded its program of quantitative easing.&nbsp; In this post, I discuss the implications of the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to ease for the RBA’s policy deliberations, suggest that the RBA should reduce the cash rate to 2% by June and undertake a quantitative analysis which indicates that domestic cyclicals are unlikely to benefit from rate cuts. 

Further rate cuts no saviour for Australian domestic cyclicals