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DECALIA in the top 50 IAM by Citywire Switzerland

We are delighted to announce that DECALIA has once again been selected by Citywire Switzerland in the top 50 Swiss Independent Asset Managers #2023 ranking🔥🔥! #Innovating is at the core of DECALIA’s investment #philosophy, and we are proud to be recognised for our efforts both in public and private markets.  Great teamwork!!

The calm before the storm

Markets have gone nowhere over the last few days, with equity indices, long rates and major forex crosses experiencing contained daily variations and an overall sideways trading after a strong start of the year for both equity and bond investors. That’s certainly a symptom of a lack of conviction among them about what comes next […]

LP insights: North America and Europe

Rising interest rates and the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse have led to a paradigm shift in #PrivateEquity and venture capital.  Reji Vettasseri, Lead Portfolio Manager at Swiss private finance group DECALIA, believes #investors now need to to be #innovative with emerging #strategies.

Small is insightful

There are several signs that the most acute part of the US banking turmoil may be behind us: markets have rebounded, the VIX is back to its lowest level since January 2022 (17.1), the amount of bank lending from the Fed emergency lending facilities has declined, US bank deposits are increasing again after weeks of […]

For a few Yen more

Food for thoughts or spurious correlation? Japan inflation driven essentially by… food prices in Tokyo Back from the dead? Japan CPI Housing Y/Y%  BoJ inflations’ anchor, gone with the wind? Japan Consumers Inflation Expectations These trends aren’t BoJ friends Measures of Underlying Japan Inflation: Trimmed Mean CPI, Weighted Median CPI and Mode CPI Measures of […]

Bank run 101

The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) happened largely online, but in essence it was no different to what generations of children have watched in Mary Poppins. When young Michael protests that he wants his tuppence back (to feed the street pigeons!), other customers question whether their own money is really “safe and sound” – […]

And now what? (part 2)

One year after the first Fed’s rate hike, the aggressive fast monetary policy tightening finally bit… What are the consequences on the overall macroeconomic backdrop from current banking-stress? While their magnitude and extent will obviously depend on the depth of these scars on the financial system, as well as the time to close it, we […]

DECALIA attending the Zero One Hundred conference

📢 DECALIA is looking forward to attending the Zero One Hundred Conferences (PE & VC Platform) #2023 and joining the co-investment panel on the 28th-30th March in #Amsterdam.Reji Vettasseri, Lead Portfolio Manager for Private Credit, will be discussing the current state of the European #fundraising #market at the conference.👉 Please fell free to contact Reji, he will be happy to get in touch […]

And now what? (part 1)

Among Credit Suisse most valuable assets as of today What are the lessons to be learned and consequences from SVB fallout and CS debacle? I won’t be long today as there are still a lot of uncertainties in the air (i.e. I probably don’t know much more than you) and I have also to navigate […]