Global Investment Strategist
Kevin is the Global Investment Strategist and a Managing Director at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management, having joined in 2014. The strategy team is responsible for in-house views on the global economy and capital markets. He chairs the Zurich-based Asset Allocation committee.
Prior to joining Rothschild & Co, Kevin worked at Barclays Wealth, latterly as CIO (Europe), from 2009. Previously, he worked for more than twenty years as a sell-side economist and strategist at several investment banks. He started his career as an economist at the Bank of England.
Kevin is a member of the Cardiff Capital Region’s advisory board, and a trustee of the London Music Fund. He has been a member of the Welsh Government’s Financial and Professional Services advisory panel, and of the Cardiff City Deal’s Growth Commission. For nine years to 2018 he was a Governor and chair of the Finance Committee at the United World College of the Atlantic. In 1994, at Morgan Stanley, he wrote the “Celtic Tiger” report on the Irish economy, still the fastest-growing economy in Western Europe. In 2015 his book “Making Sense of Markets” was published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Kevin was a scholarship holder at UWC Atlantic College, where he took the IB. He graduated with a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil (Econ) from Cambridge University.
Market Commentary
Die Märkte haben sich zwar schnell wieder erholt, aber es ist noch zu früh, um daraus zu schließen, dass wir aus dem Banken- und Wirtschaftsdschungel heraus sind. In dieser Ausgabe von Market Perspective befassen wir uns mit den Konjunkturrisiken und aktualisieren unseren Inflationsmonitor, bevor wir die Wirtschaftsleistung der verschiedenen Länder bewerten.
Market Perspective
The recent stress in the banking sector seems to have abated but there remain many questions. In the latest episode of Perspectives from Wealth Management Switzerland, Laura Künlen and Global Investment Strategists Kevin Gardiner and Victor Balfour share their latest thinking on the economic backdrop and what this means for the markets.
Market Commentary
Ist der Zusammenbruch der Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) - und andere jüngste Ereignisse im Bankensystem - der Schmetterling, der einen finanziellen Tornado auslösen wird? In dieser Ausgabe von Market Perspective finden Sie aktuelle Informationen zum Bankensystem und zur weiteren Abschwächung der Inflation, wenn auch nur in Ansätzen.
Market Perspective
Few would have predicted recent tumultuous events in the banking sector. In the latest episode of Perspectives from Wealth Management Switzerland, Laura Künlen and Global Investment Strategists Kevin Gardiner and Victor Balfour provide an update on the banking sector and discuss what this means for investors.
Publications
Idiosyncratic headwinds compounded by losses on its treasury and mortgage-backed security portfolio lead to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Are there signs of contagion? In this Strategy blog, we analyse the situation around the collapse and consider further risks.
Market Perspective
Will there be a recession? Is inflation indeed fading? And is it time for eurozone stocks to outperform? Find out more in the latest instalment of the Perspectives podcast.
