Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro research for Fidelity Investments, agrees this is a distinct possibility.
Their global macro strategies invest across not only the globe but across different asset classes.
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Many try to mimic specific investing methods, like global macro or fixed-income arbitrage.
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Dell sees the challenging global macro-economic environment continuing in the fourth quarter, which will continue to impact the company's results.
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Prominent global macro hedge fund manager Caxton Associates LP recently reduced its management fee by 0.40% and its incentive fee level by 2.5%.
Markets were fixated on Europe and global macro concerns last year, as the valuations of many stocks drifted down to historically cheap levels.
Rob Robis, portfolio manager and head of global macro strategies at ING, says he doesn't expect a sustained sharp rise in interest rates soon.
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Our Global Macro Survey indicates that 70% of emerging market portfolio managers expect this to occur, albeit at a reduced pace than in previous quarters.
The universe of hedge fund asset classes is very deep and includes convertible arbitrage, distressed mortgage, long-short equity and global macro, among many other complex strategies.
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Not quite, say the principals of Positive Delta Asset Management, an investment firm in Los Angeles that manages capital through global macro strategies and runs a strategy on Wealthfront.
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His global macro view was that the Bank of England would no longer be able to support its own currency and that it would tumble relative to the deutsche mark and French franc.
The global economic slowdown, so prevalent in recent macro and global economic analysis, will leave its mark on the commodity complex as well.
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As a result, investor expectations have been driven down, down, down, says Philip Poole, global head of macro and investment strategy at HSBC in London.
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As he taught his students about theories and macro solutions to global economics, a very real, very tangible problem was literally starving people to death at the doorsteps of his university.
Additionally, in view of the weak macro economic environment, global TV shipments are likely to remain flat in 2013.
Currently, global growth is threatened by several macro headwinds such as Euro-zone debt crisis and concerns over U.S. growth both of which can decelerate growth in export-reliant Asian economies and fuel inflation due to prolonged easy money policies.
He says he now is focusing on a global bond fund and spends his days reading macro-oriented publications and research from gloomy economist Nouriel Roubini.
The gain in the market and decline in volatility is somewhat perplexing, given the large macro risks that continue to pervade the global economy and the relatively weak earnings outlook offered by a number of bellwether firms such as FedEx and Hewlett-Packard.
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Rising traffic and content growth on a global basis has helped the company perform well, despite macro-economic headwinds and high operating costs.
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Richard Ross, a global technical strategist for the firm, said there were some subtle signs of macro technical strength emerging in the technical data.
Having said that, I think that most people should have a realistic view that the financial markets are in dire straits, relative to this macro environment with what is going on with currencies, what is going on with the global economy and significant government intervention in the west, in Japan, in those markets and in those economies.
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