Morningstar Top 5: Gavekal leads large-cap mixed equity

The third quarter has come to a close.  In the category of global large-cap mixed equity, Gavekal, JOHCM and State Street offered the best-performing funds during these three months, as measured by the performance of funds with a classification for the Netherlands in this week’s Morningstar Top 5. 

Gave sees silver lining around dark clouds over Ukraine

In the first quarter, investors sold off their Chinese shares en masse. Foreign investors who had burned their money in Russia were afraid that a similar scenario would unfold in China, potentially leaving them with stranded assets. But there is a silver lining here, Louis-Vincent Gave, co-founder and director of research company GaveKal, told Investment Officer. “A Taiwan invasion is less likely now than it was a few months ago.”

GaveKal: China's radically different answer to US fiscal spending

While the US and Europe have chosen the path of unprecedented fiscal spending and monetary easing, China is doing the accept opposite. On the long term, this will lead to an appreciation of the renminbi and a depreciating dollar which will push inflation higher in the West, argues GaveKal founder Charles Gave in his latest monthly contribution to Investment Officer.

GaveKal: not Covid but the renminbi is the event of 2020

What was the most important event to precede the 2008 financial crisis? Was it BNP closing its money market funds or the oil price exceeding the $100 mark? No, it was the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. And what’s the event of 2020? Surely it is Covid-19, right? No, says GaveKal’s Louis Gave, it’s the renminbi. ‘The renminbi is for the dollar what the iPhone was for Microsoft: the introduction of a parallel operating system.’