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THE MAGNIFICENT 7 WORRIES ON AI

By Quirien Lemey, Co-Lead PM for DECALIA Sustainable Society strategy We have seen the market increasingly worry about a potential AI bubble, and hence seen some violent moves in the past few weeks. Even stellar results from Nvidia, their largest and cleanest beat in a while, didn’t change the narrative. Moreover, more than half of […]

2025 Market Review: Strong Returns, But a Year of Tensions and Rotations

Written by Alfredo Piacentini, Managing Partner of DECALIA As we draw up the 2025 year-end assessment, index performances closed in positive territory. Yet for investors and portfolio managers, the year has been anything but smooth sailing. It has been marked by heightened geopolitical tensions and economic challenges, with equity markets experiencing both an unusually high […]

A paradigm shift in software and it services

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a rapid and profound transformation of business models in the software, consulting and IT services sector. The number of corporate clients recently put forward by OpenAI and Anthropic, one million and 300,000 respectively, reflects an adoption rate far higher than anticipated, fuelling stock market nervousness and weighing on valuation multiples. […]

Time of reckoning

This is my last weekly letter of the year. So, it’s time to step back and look at how I scored on my 10 predictions for 2025. Even if the year isn’t officially over yet, we can already affirm that it has been an incredible eventful and fascinating year on markets (once again!), which have […]

The X-files

For once, the title of my editorial has nothing to do with Cagliari’s incredible victory over Roma last week or the supernatural goal scored against Atlanta yesterday… but rather with what is happening on the US repo market and the concerns this seems to be raising within the Fed. As widely expected, the Fed cut […]

DECALIA welcomes Andrée Poliak Narbel

DECALIA is pleased to announce the strengthening of its Wealth Management expertise with the arrival of Andrée Poliak Narbel as Senior Private Banker in Geneva, as of 1 December 2025. Leveraging her experience across both the Swiss and Eastern European markets, built initially at UBS in wealth planning for UHNW clients and then over more […]

Capitalising on a cyclical refinancing boom

The financial community is witnessing a decisive pivot. The anticipated decline in US benchmark interest rates represents more than just a cost adjustment; it looks set to serve as a powerful catalyst for transaction volumes across consumer debt markets, particularly in the residential mortgage sector. Indeed, a vast pool of borrowers will have a clear […]