Carraighill Insight Distilled

Carraighill is an independent research firm delivering alpha-generating insight in the financial sector.

We study financial systems end to end and publish macro frameworks, monthly data insights and company recommendations.

Every conclusion is derived from long-run data and tested against each new release.

We serve a global client base of professional investors.

Approach

The Carraighill Approach

Every conclusion we publish is derived from an explicit analytical framework: a structural model of an economy, sector or banking system, calibrated on long-run official data.

1

Build the framework. We consolidate decades of national accounts, balance-of-payments, monetary and sectoral statistics into consistent long-run series, reconciled across the household, corporate, government and external sectors. Several frameworks span the system.

2

Form the thesis. Integrating the frameworks isolates the causal drivers of an economy, sector or balance sheet, showing how fiscal positions, savings behaviour, credit demand and rates interact, and yields a testable thesis.

3

Express the thesis. The thesis is translated into explicit forecasts and their market expression: bank-level estimates of net interest income, earnings and valuation, and positioning on policy rates, yield curves and relative sovereign spreads.

4

Track, test and extend. Each thesis is monitored against monthly and quarterly data releases, with defined signals for confirmation or revision.

The framework set is applied consistently across the euro area, the UK, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe (including Turkey), Brazil and Mexico.

Monthly Data

Monthly Data Insights

Each month we process large volumes of official financial data across the economies we cover, from household cash flow to bank net interest income.

Many of these measures, including HDSP™, are proprietary to Carraighill and have been developed over years of analysis.

The results feed our frameworks and are published as monthly and quarterly reports, keeping clients ahead of evolving investment trends.

Companies

Company Recommendations

This is a bottom-up approach. It involves conversations with management, model build and an assessment of valuation. Each recommendation seeks to offer 50% upside or downside.

Our company coverage extends to

BanksPaymentsDiversified FinancialsHousebuildersREITs
  • Meetings with Management
  • Model Build
  • Fundamental Forecasts
  • Long and Short Ideas
  • 50+ Companies Covered
  • Target 50% Upside or Downside
Reports

Sample Reports

All of the reports available here are dated and no longer constitute investment advice.

UK Banks
Top-line Drivers
Portugal
On the Cusp of an Economic Transformation
Global Inflation & Rates
March 2022 Edition
Nexi
A European Payments Consolidator
Bank of Ireland
Low-hanging Fruit (4x P/E 2022f)
The Matrix: Brazil
Ripe for Short Opportunities
British Land
Our View Remains Unchanged
Dissecting Turkey 4
Brazilian Banks Analysis
Our Latest Thoughts and Fundamental Forecasts | February 2022 Edition
Italian Financials
Assessing Rising BTP Risks
European Banks Analysis
Our Latest Thoughts and Fundamental Forecasts | April 2022 Edition
ECB
Clear Rates Lift Off = Long European Banks
AIB & BOI
Significant Top-Line Upgrades
Rising Net Worth
Implications Of The Pandemic On European Banks & Discretionary Spend
Emerging Markets
Turkey Will Be the Greatest Crisis of Them All
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