Lifting of UK lockdown could be 'exceptional buying opportunity'

At the time of writing, UK equity benchmarks have fallen by approximately one-third from their year-to-date highs.

Although the market drawdown was substantially worse during the Global Financial Crisis at 45%, the speed of the recent sell-off has been almost unprecedented. The global spread of Covid-19 and the resultant political response to try and contain it have ground large parts of the global economy to a shuddering halt. M&G's Alex Araujo: Opportunities for long-life global infrastructure assets Many unknowns remain. How has China seemingly managed to export the virus to the rest of the world while apparently containing the spread within its own borders? South Korea and Singapore seem...