UK fund selectors give their unique take on the rapidly evolving global coronavirus crisis from a professional and personal perspective. Today, we hear from John Husselbee, head of multi-asset at Liontrust Asset Management.
How does the market fallout from the coronavirus pandemic compare with other tough times during your career? Are there lessons you have learnt during your career that can help you now? This is the fourth bear market of my career and while the catalysts are always different, there are clear similarities to expect. So far, markets have treated the pandemic as a classic growth shock and reacted in typical bear fashion: the difference from the two previous declines has been the speed, with the slowest bull run in history quickly giving way to one of the rapidest bear markets. Bear mark...
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