There has been a meaningful rotation out of growth into value stocks over the past month, driven by a modest rise in US and German government bond yields. It remains to be seen if this trend is sustainable.
· On a global level we have a balanced sector allocation between value and growth. In the Eurozone, we have a value bias in our sector preferences.
· In our tactical asset allocation, we have raised emerging markets to neutral from underweight and reduced Eurozone equities to neutral. We stay overweight US equities.