Coronavirus weekly round-up: UK suffers worst ever economic slump while Joe Biden names Kamala Harris as VP pick
Four investors mull the events shaping portfolios over the past week
Four investors mull the events shaping portfolios over the past week
‘Life sciences has seen between three-to-five years of normal cycle adoption in barely two months’
Divestment can play a part in solving climate change but it should be reserved for businesses that cannot or will not change
The chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company Kermitted Asset Management worries one of the defining laws of financial services has just blurred around the edges
The fund sector has a responsibility to help advisers make informed investment choices on behalf of clients
Best performing IA North America sector fund has returned 38% since sell-off, while S&P 500 produced -2%
Lessons to take from the year so far concern herd behaviour, policy response influence and the opportunity to buy at low prices
The five largest stocks in the S&P 500 have driven the US market for the past 25 years
Over the last five years 86% of returns from the MSCI World index were generated by US equities
Continuing our regular series of how investment experts are dealing with the coronavirus fallout
In our latest spotlight on less traditional assets, Pietro Nicholls argues the future of real estate in a post-pandemic world will look very different.
The outlook for markets may be blurry in the short term but, in some respects, it becomes less so over the long run