Caglasu Altunkopru
19 Years at AB|28 Years of Experience
Caglasu Altunkopru is Head of Macro Strategy in the Multi-Asset Solutions Group at AB. She was previously a sell-side analyst at AB, covering equity portfolio strategy for six years. Altunkopru joined the firm in 2005, covering the European Household and Personal Care sector, and her team was ranked among the top three in Institutional Investor and Extel surveys. Prior to joining AB, she worked as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co. and McKinsey, serving clients in the consumer goods and financial services sectors. Altunkopru holds a BS in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Location: New York
Published Work
As growth extends to more regions, we see expanding opportunities across countries and assets.
Improving inflation and growth scenarios should enhance the equities and bond dynamic for multi-asset investors.
Discerning market trends is often like appraising a work of art, so how can investors identify turning points across asset classes? Karen is joined by Caglasu Altunkopru who explores how she uses analysis of market cycles to guide portfolio decisions.
After pandemic-era extremes, growth and inflation should approach historical averages in 2024. Here’s how multi-asset investors can respond.
A robust growth backdrop, a key input for cross-asset positioning, benefited from pent-up demand and an accommodative fiscal policy stance.
With the second half of 2023 underway, how are the macro and market landscapes unfolding?
As economic conditions improve, multi-asset investors may see better equities opportunities, alongside compelling income generation.
As more evidence points to softer inflation, multi-asset investors should consider what a return to pre-pandemic inflation dynamics means for asset allocation.
In 2023, the path to normalization will be bumpy. Multi-asset investors must be dynamic, balancing inflation resilience with growth potential-and a measure of volatility mitigation.
China's 20th National Congress could help air ideas for more growth-supportive policies.
As markets start to price in an inflation inflection point, how can multi-asset investors adapt?
Higher-for-longer inflation is challenging consumers, investors and central bankers, but improving supply and demand imbalances may offer relief.
With rates likely to rise, and with a major geopolitical shock reverberating across the globe, what are the ramifications for asset allocations and key portfolio building blocks?
Capital markets have rebounded from their COVID-19-induced lows, but impacted industries have lagged substantially. That pessimism may be overdone in some cases, creating opportunities for multi-asset investors to exploit dislocations.
In addition to its tragic human toll, COVID-19 triggered the sharpest recession in recent history, and efforts to control its spread have transformed the way we work, the way we shop and how we connect with others. We think these changes will last awhile-with implications for asset allocation.
The recent decline in US corporate cash hasn't raised a lot of eyebrows, but it has caused one of our equity-quality indicators to flash a warning. Since equity quality is one of the signals with a strong track record of predicting market sell-offs, should investors be worried?
Investors are likely to remember 2018 as the end of the era of easy money, low volatility and steady margin expansion. Investing will be more challenging in 2019—and diversification will be more important than ever.