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About Global Market Outlook Reports
Our CIO, Tina Byles Williams, publishes our market outlook on a quarterly basis, based on research that examines market conditions over a three- to six-month period. These quarterly analyses serve as key inputs to our fund construction process, which incorporates strategic tilts to the market segments we believe will outperform over a six- to 12-month time frame. For global equity portfolios, these tilts incorporate regional, sector, and capitalization strata as well as investment process and style factors. For U.S. equity portfolios, tilts include sector, capitalization strata, investment process, and/or style factors.
Our objective is to construct a portfolio of “best in class” investments with weightings consistent with our overall investment strategy.
FIS Group Global Market Outlook Reports
Poised for Lift-Off or Facing Turbulence: Q2 2025 Systematic Global Equities Update
As we enter the second half of 2025, the next six months are expected to be defined by a slowing global economy, tariff uncertainty, and market volatility.
The Price of Distrust: How Much Downside Could There Be in U.S. Equities?
For the past 15 years, global investors’ default positioning was to hold U.S. Dollars as the most obvious choice of non-domestic currencies (and maybe most obvious overall choice) and when investing outside their own equity markets, to look first to the U.S.
There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere: Q1 2025 Fixed Income Update
As we enter the second quarter of 2025, there is much to consider for fixed income markets and the broader economy.
The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty: Systematic Global Equities Q1 2025 Update
The opening quarter of 2025 was a roller coaster ride for investors, beginning with optimism but ending with considerable turmoil.
The Fraying Trans-Atlantic Alliance is Making Europe Great Again
America – or at least the Trump Administration – and Europe are clearly seeing the world differently these days.
The Precariat Are Still Mad! Part III – How Should Investors Play the Next 4 Years? It Depends!
This piece is the third in a three-part series on the issues that led to 2024’s anti-incumbent party backlash. Here, we evaluate the trade and other fiscal proposals put forward by the incoming Trump administration, as well as their investment implications.
Market Insights Alert
Papers: FIS Group Proprietary Research
The Sweet Spot in the US Equity Markets: Part 1
The US equity markets exhibit observable biases over time, alternately favoring one group of stocks over others: large cap vs. small cap; value vs. growth; defensive vs. dynamic; sector rotation, etc. We questioned whether there was a longer term benefit to favoring one group of stocks over the others.
Stories from Shanghai and the Mobile Payments in China
China has a long history of pioneering revolutionary change in payments. Coins dating from at least 700 BC have now been found in China, making it the first place in the world (that we know of) to issue coins.
Monetary Policy at the end of the Road?
As central bankers around the world continue to lament the lack of helpful fiscal policy and discuss the limitations of monetary policy after years of ultra-accommodative policy, we discuss what we see as a few of the potential risks to the outlook should the United...
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 3
Yields have fallen precipitously since 2018 on weaker economics, driving Momentum stock leadership, and the underperformance of Value and more-shorted names. These trends reversed in September on positive macro headlines and a pickup in yields.
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 2
It has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times…for growth and value…over the last decade. Since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), economic and market conditions have been generally favorable for US growth stocks. The economy grew at a slow...
A Tale of Two Styles: Value and Growth – Part 1
It has been the best of times, it has been the worst of times…for growth and value…over the last decade. Since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), economic and market conditions have been generally favorable for US growth stocks.
Videos And Webinars
Market Outlook and Research Webinars
FIS Group 1Q 2016 Market Outlook Webinar-20160121 1902-1
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FIS Group Q3 Market Outlook Webinar-20150724 1501-1
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2015 Global Market Outlook
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View Q4, 2014 Webinar
Tina Byles Williams, CEO/CIO of FIS Group leads a wide-ranging discussion on FIS Group’s view of geopolitical, demographic and macroeconomic trends shaping risk and investable opportunities for institutional investors.
The panel moderator Sam Austin, III, SVP Director of Marketing and Client Service (FIS Group) and Ms. Byles Williams conducted this discussion as a part of FIS Group’s third annual Investment Symposium. The event was held on September 26, 2014 in Philadelphia.
FIS Group, Inc. is an 20-year old Philadelphia based institutional asset management firm that focuses on investing in long-only global and international equity strategies.
Mid-Year Market Review and Emerging Markets Focus
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Frontier Markets Investing and 2Q Market Outlook 4-16-2014
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