All in all better than expected Q3 results and another share buyback program, which underlines Allianz’s capital strength and the willingness to return excess capital to shareholders. We raise our TP (3 – 12 months) from EUR 220 to EUR 250/share.
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Morning Market Commentary – DAX, German surplus
We are expecting for the DAX 30 equities’ outperformance to extend through 2015. EPS expectations should stabilize alongside global GDP growth. We are forecasting DAX EPS FY 2014 to rise by 16% yoy to 760. (Vs. consensus 729).
In the past 30 years that we have been active in the global equities capital markets arena, Germany has been focusing like no other nation and its corporate sector in re-inventing and restructuring and repositioning itself and its economy by constantly upgrading through technological, intellectual value-added, and by high capital expenditure driven innovative research and development. This has lead to the point that the majority of German companies to-date are world class leaders, second to none.
Global Markets Strategy & Equities Outlook – Bullish on Japan & China
As you know we turned very bullish on Japan and China in September 2012, and have been advising to overweight allocations towards the Nikkei and the Shanghai Indices, as we recognized major turning points in those markets due to changes in government leadership and implicitly new and improved stimulus policies going into effect as of Q4 2012.