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House of Cards

For years now we have been extolling the obvious virtue of knowing where value is at any point in time – looking at the expected returns and the discount rate being applied to those cash flows.

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Banking on it

In the Spring of 2022 European Banks started to generate Accelerator long signals, slowly but surely, one by one until the sector itself lit up in a green tinge from April – June and here we are today coming out of a positive earnings season, seeing the sector re-rating.

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Why why why?

So, when asked the question ‘Why did you own BP?’ you point at the image of the Apollo Investment Cycle. Answering the more difficult question, ‘Why did you not own BP during the last 2 years ?’ That’s more awkward.

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Knowing Why. Showing Why.

At Libra we think differently and deliver the best user experience for Active equity investors applying the years of experience and understanding that we have in equity markets. We not only know what information is going to make a difference to client performance but provide the best experience.

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Point to Point

It’s the big calls that make the big difference to both Equity and Cross Asset investors and we’ve been doing this successfully for years.

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Change is Good

The latest signal / indicator to be added the Apollo EDGE platform has been the Investment Cycle which we discussed in an earlier comment – the ability to show the transition from Value to Re-rating to Growth and De-rating (the cycle) is proving very informative.

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Copper Mountain

The Federal reserve is now perceived to be of a Dovish disposition while the China Opening Up story is now prevalent. Risk assets are on the rise and Copper is back to $9000 / tonne. Maybe we should be buying commodity stocks and copper related names in particular. Antofagasta anyone?

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Alibaba to Ali Baba…finally?

Having announced the launch of the Apollo Investment Cycle some weeks ago, today we announced the actual launch of our proprietary Investment Cycle that allows an investor to understand and visualise as a stock, sector or market moves from De-rating to Value, to Re-rating, then Growth.

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Tesla’s Flat Battery

As the news wires (and not only the financial ones) are dominated by Elon Musk, mostly around Twitter, the value of Tesla and by extension Elon’s own fortune, is melting away as the market tries to assess what Tesla is worth and how to value it?

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Investment Cycling

Today we introduce the Apollo Investment Cycle on the EDGE platform. Clients will already be aware that they can Smart Filter their portfolios and watchlists at a stock level using the proprietary investment factor groupings of Value, Re-rating, Growth and De-rating.