Mirabaud
Asset Management

We are delighted to announce the sale of Intrepid to Ascential. Intrepid provides e-commerce operations optimisation, digital marketing and technology services to large enterprise customers, helping them improve their sales and marketing performance on South East Asian (SEA) e-commerce marketplaces.

Friday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) number was unexpectedly strong and caused markets to fall dramatically as inflation (and stagflation) fears moved once again to the front of investors’ minds. In addition, the European Central Bank (ECB) has finally joined the hawkish club, which re-priced European bonds dramatically this week. Subsequent pronouncements of a 25bps hike in July seem to put the ECB behind the curve and Bunds have sold off in response.

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Paris May 2022 – Two of Mirabaud Asset Management’s private equity funds have taken a joint stake in Fusalp, a French skiwear brand.

London, 30 May 2022 – Mirabaud Asset Management appoints Liisa Juntunen as Head of Distribution across all their markets, as the firm continues to build out its sales and distribution strategy.

Time for my latest missive, and yes you guessed it, more debate around inflation, interest rates and recession. Treasuries have rallied, with risk selling off over the last week or so, but at least for Fixed Income, we seem to be stuck in a bit of a range as we wait for more data on growth and inflation. It looks like the ECB is now going to raise rates, and we are still expecting 2x50bps from the Federal Reserve over the next 2 meetings.

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