PUBLICFeb 15, 2026

The New Risk Cycle: Markets Between Liquidity and Fragmentation

A structural shift is underway as global liquidity conditions tighten while geopolitical blocs harden. Investors are being forced to price a world where capital is no longer neutral.

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The New Risk Cycle: Markets Between Liquidity and Fragmentation
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The End of the Abundant Liquidity Era

For more than a decade, asset prices were shaped primarily by one force: excess liquidity. That regime is now transitioning.

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