From macro data
to a portfolio.
Seven steps, each run on rules fixed in advance. Three composites read the economy, the regime sets the weights, and momentum picks the names.
Measure growth
Five pillars follow the economy in the order growth actually happens: financial conditions, business decisions, input acquisition, production and distribution. Together they show whether growth is running above or below trend.
Every indicator is scored against its own history and carries the same weight in the composite, so no single series can dominate the read.
Track inflation
Five channels track price pressure from different sources: demand, pipeline costs, monetary conditions, expectations and services. The composite turns positive when pressure is building and negative when it is fading.
The channels measure how price pressure is changing rather than where prices sit, which is what moves markets.
Gauge global liquidity
Five pillars follow money through the global system: central bank balance sheets, private credit, cross-border dollar flows, shadow banking, and collateral and funding markets.
Each series is measured by its rate of change. Markets respond to whether liquidity is growing faster or slower, not to how much of it exists.
Classify the regime
Growth and inflation are each read as above or below zero. Together they place the economy in one of four regimes, each favouring a different kind of asset.
Growth above trend, inflation fading
Growth above trend, inflation building
Growth below trend, inflation building
Growth below trend, inflation fading
Apply the liquidity overlay
Liquidity splits every regime in two. Above zero it reads Expanding, below zero Contracting, which gives eight market states. Each state has fixed weights across five sleeves: growth, liquidity, real assets, defensive and cash.
Expanding liquidity tilts the book toward the growth and liquidity sleeves. Contracting liquidity moves weight into defensive assets and cash.
Tilts toward growth and liquidity
Tilts toward defensive and cash
Select the assets
Each sleeve has a pool of candidate assets. Volatility-adjusted momentum ranks them, and the leaders share the sleeve's weight equally.
Adjusting for volatility rewards steady trends over sharp spikes. There is no on/off switch: the leaders are always held, and how much sits in cash is decided by the regime, not by momentum.
Generate the model portfolio
The sleeve weights from the regime and the names chosen by momentum combine into a single model portfolio. Signals update every day. The model portfolio rebalances at the start of each month, and straight away whenever the regime or the liquidity state changes.
Every rule is fixed in advance, so the same conditions always produce the same portfolio. Nothing is left to judgement.
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