Competitive Advantage
- Global commodity and energy strategy allocation advice provides clients with key inputs into setting their own portfolio strategies, enhancing returns, and reducing risk.
- Links top-down analysis to strategic commodity rotation themes (base metals, precious metals, energy) as well as how to implement in commodity futures, equities and currencies, based on relative valuation models.
- The strategy service takes advantage of BCA’s traditional macro-thematic, “top-down” strengths for commodity/energy futures, equities and currencies.
Actionable assessment of the expected direction for commodity and energy prices, equities and commodity currencies.
Components
Weekly Reports
The weekly reports are the main component of the service and provide clients with portfolio strategy advice and specific, actionable recommendations grounded in accurate data and insightful analysis, backed by BCA’s proprietary indicators.
Special Reports
Investment oriented special reports cover such topics as China angles, commodity groups, softs, peak oil, and historical similarities with current commodity investment cycles.
David L. Abramson, Chief Strategist
David Abramson has been with BCA Research since 1987.
He is currently Chief Commodity and Energy Strategist. From 2005 – 2007, he was the Chief Strategist of BCA’s China Investment Strategy. From 2000 – 2005, he originated and managed a European institutional service. For most of the 1990s, he was Chief Strategist of BCA’s Foreign Exchange Strategy, and also frequently contributed to the emerging market asset allocation service. In addition, Mr. Abramson is a part-time lecturer in International Business with the Concordia and McGill University Faculties of Finance. Before joining BCA, he worked in the international department of the Bank of Canada modeling exchange rates and trade flows. He holds a M.B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, as well as a M.A. in Economics from Carleton University.
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