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Loading...Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS Group AG have a message for their wealthy clients: it’s not too late to buy equities.
Political risk is keeping many rich individuals on the sidelines of a rally that’s sent global stocks surging to records amid a recovering world economy. Now’s the time for them to jump back in and take advantage of the gains still to be made, say the people looking after their cash.
“Whenever it feels really difficult and challenging to put money at work, ultimately those are often the better investments,” Burkhard Varnholt, deputy chief investment officer of Credit Suisse, said at a roundtable discussion at Bloomberg’s Zurich office on Feb. 27. “That sense of skepticism, that wall of worry, which is still there, to me is not a discouragement.”
The question wealth-management clients have to ask is whether the risks are sufficiently perilous to warrant staying out of stocks when the return of inflation and Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest-rate increase signal a recovery.
“We can get very fuzzed about political risks these days because it occupies the headlines,” Urban Angehrn, CIO at Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland’s biggest insurer, said at the Bloomberg event. “Underneath that, we have a pretty benign macro environment that shows a recovery, good consumer and business confidence. There are a lot of other positive economic trends.”
Rich individuals who have kept out of stocks have missed out, though, and doubts are emerging as to how much upside is left. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists cut their three-month outlook for the asset class to neutral this week, while Allianz Global Investors equities CIO Lucy MacDonald told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that valuations are becoming stretched.
“Political uncertainty is always difficult to price,” said Guido Fuerer, CIO of Swiss Re, who oversees assets of about $160 billion. “Going beyond politics and thinking about policy uncertainty more broadly, I see the Fed’s normalization path as very positive, not only for market stability but also for us as long-term investors.”
Bloomberg
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