At the start of last year I wrote a piece with the same title. Coming into 2025, many investors assumed 2024’s winners would stay winners. Then a surprise policy shock broad reciprocal tariffs announced by the White House sent markets into a tailspin. The cockpit went dark: prices became hypersensitive to headlines, speculation and narrative. […]
I wrote a piece the other day ‘What, when and why? The portfolio manager’s dilemma’ in which I said that I don’t start the day knowing what I am going to write. Opportunity just knocks. Whether you are an analyst or portfolio manager, you need to know when share prices are offering opportunity or risk […]
Entering into February, we take a look back at the weather report for January 2026 and take a view on what might lie ahead in H1.
As global equity markets look ahead to the coming year, we summarise the year that has gone and look forward to the New Horizons of 2026 through the lens of Apollo.
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All that glitters was gold.
Knowing the when the where and the how is a powerful tool within the investment armoury.
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Data. It’s numbers game.
The Apollo momentum signal is a measure of the momentum associated with inter-temporal changes in stock level expected returns and the consequent re-estimation of future expected returns by the market. We refer to this as the (momentum) accelerator signal. The image shows the Accelerator (long) signal as seen on the Broadcom – this is one […]
Catfish season… We call our regular Apollo based commentary “The Weather report”. The analogies that we can make with the multiple elements of Value, Momentum and Uncertainty impacting markets in a continuous way chimes nicely with the idea of Currents, Tides and Winds, all impacting the navigation of the high seas. Whatever the nature of the vessel […]
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Weather Report October 2025
Do traditional market patterns still matter in the age of AI and the 2025 surge in retail investor flows? As we enter November, we review what Tail winds might persist into year end.
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The Need to Know..
The Need to Know – Always Since we created Apollo – 20+ years ago, we have come up with one of two great ‘strap lines’ for what we do and ‘The Need to Know’ was one of them on the basis that once you know, you know. You see, you understand and make a decision […]
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Weather Report September 2025
Storm season arrives We call our regular Apollo based commentary “The Weather report”. The analogies that we can make with the multiple elements of Value, Momentum and Uncertainty impacting markets in a continuous way chimes nicely with the idea of Currents, Tides and Winds, all impacting the navigation of the high seas. Whatever the nature of […]