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Oil price shocks and the dynamics of investment grade credit spreads
1. Introduction Sharp increases in oil prices represent one of the most consequential macroeconomic disturbances affecting financial markets. As a key input into global production, transportation and consumption, oil price…
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Market commentary bonds: Signs of recession are growing stronger
Inflation and inflation expectations The second quarter of 2023 was marked by renewed inflationary concerns. Although the US inflation rate fell to 4.0%, this was mainly due to volatile energy…
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International Women's Day 2023: Facts, Figures and Insights about Women at Quoniam
According to the latest Citywire Alpha Female Report, a more gender-balanced representation of investment professionals is still far away: Female fund managers make up just 12% of Citywire's database of…
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Market commentary bonds: Interest rates in step? Why the eurozone and the US are diverging
Interest rates: Divergence between currency areas On the interest rate front, the decoupling between the eurozone and the US was particularly striking in the fourth quarter of 2025. While the…
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Recession ahead - How are the central banks reacting?
The second quarter of 2022 was marked by a further acceleration in inflation rates. Sanctions against Russia have further pushed up energy prices and caused prices to rise across the…
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Expert discuss Corporate bonds & ESG regulation: "The choice of exclusion criteria has an immediate performance effect."
The pressure on investors to make their own portfolios more sustainable is growing. How prepared are institutional investors for this? Sustainability and ESG factors are also becoming increasingly important for…
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Interview with CTO Dr Alexander Beck: Technology at a quantitative asset manager
You are the first person to be appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Quoniam. Can you tell us a bit more about your role? Why did Quoniam create this position?…
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Expert discussion on climate data: Analysing, combining and integrating signals
The topic of climate risks is playing an increasingly important role for companies. But how important is the topic for investors? It is becoming more and more important, and we…
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Quoniam wins World-class Workplace award for Best in DACH by Effectory
Organisations receive the World-class Workplace label only when they score above the benchmark average for both Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) and employership scores based on key topics such as…
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Quantifying sustainability – making sense of ESG data
1.) How have ESG data providers evolved during the last ten years and what are the current challenges? Ten years ago, asset managers looking to apply responsible investing criteria to…
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Is the AI bubble starting to impact corporate bond markets?
AI investments and corporate bonds The current bubble in AI-related stocks, best represented by the high index share and lofty valuations of the so-called ‘Magnificent 7’ (‘MAG7’ comprising Alphabet/Google, Amazon,…
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Expert discussion on the use of Big Data: "We want to keep the information edge on unstructured data"
Dr Ebner, it is often said that data is the new oil or the new gold. Would you go one step further and say that big data is even more…
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Market commentary equities: NVIDIA and the concentration on the stock markets
While technology stocks were already the main drivers of positive stock markets in the years of the pandemic, this trend has intensified again in 2023 due to expectations of future…
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Market commentary equities: Markets buoyed despite high valuations and inflation concerns – central banks' next moves awaited
Equity markets had a strong positive first quarter in 2023. The MSCI World, MSCI Europe and MSCI EM gained 5.83%, 8.61%, and 2.12% respectively (all in EUR terms). The rally…
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Cloud data warehousing: quantitative asset management research meets academic expertise
What does Quoniam's investment research do? Andre Fröhlich: The Research team develops our investment models and is responsible for our forecasts and the maintenance of our proprietary data warehouse. They…
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