LCI RESEARCH
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Monthly strategy reviews, market commentary, macro analysis and viewpoints from the La Côte Invest team.
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LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2025
The 12 months to 31 December 2025 were an equity-driven year for La Côte Invest’s strategies. Global equity carried every sleeve, the active-enhanced sleeves earned a second leg of return from gold, and currency was the dominant relative swing factor — a USD-weakness drag on CHF and EUR sleeves and a tailwind for USD-referenced ones.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2024
Every LCI strategy posted a positive 2024, with US large-cap equity the engine and gold powering the active-enhanced sleeves. Returns ranged from +5.3% to +15.3%. Currency was the swing factor: a stronger dollar lifted CHF and EUR books against peers, while USD strategies trailed strong reference funds.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2023
A strong equity rebound in 2023 lifted all 18 LCI multi-asset strategies above their respective benchmarks. This review covers full-year returns, since-inception cushions, best and worst performers, FX impacts, and portfolio changes across CHF, EUR and USD sleeves.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2022
2022 hit stocks and bonds together, yet all 18 LCI strategies beat their benchmarks — by between +1.2% and +11.3% — and every sleeve stayed ahead since inception.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2021
2021 rewarded a static, equity-heavy stance across all 18 LCI multi-asset strategies. Developed-market equities, led by the US and Canada, powered every return, while a defensive bond core capped the upside as yields rose. Currency was the swing factor, lifting EUR strategies and weighing on USD ones.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2020
A textbook risk-on recovery year. Across all 18 LCI strategies, equity carried the return — led by US mega-cap and Korea — while the active-enhanced overlay of gold and listed alternatives delivered the clearest source of outperformance over the semi-passive sleeves.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2019
2019 was a broadly risk-on year: every LCI strategy posted a high-single-digit or double-digit gain, led by US and European equities with credit a steady second leg. All 18 sleeves beat their benchmarks, and the active-enhanced SE sleeves outperformed their semi-passive twins in every family.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2018
2018 was a textbook late-cycle, risk-off year. Every LCI strategy posted a negative 12-month return, yet all 18 beat their benchmark by between +180 and +780 bps and stayed ahead since inception — the value of diversified, multi-asset construction showing up exactly where it should.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2017
2017 rewarded equity beta, and LCI’s strategies captured it with double-digit returns at the Growth end. The decisive relative lesson was currency, not allocation: a sharply appreciating EUR cost the EUR sleeves against their benchmarks, the mirror image of the tailwind that lifted the USD sleeves.
LCI Annual Strategy Review December 2016
2016, the strategies’ first year since launch, began with a China/oil scare and absorbed the Brexit shock before a strong second-half recovery. Every strategy ended positive and almost all beat their benchmark — the outperformance coming from genuine diversification across equity, recovered credit, gold and real estate.