Global insight: Video interview with Fidelity's Grethe Schepers

Highlights of group's 2018 Analyst Survey

Fidelity International director Grethe Schepers talks to Professional Adviser's Julian Marr about the group's 2018 Analyst Survey, which found confidence for the year ahead among the world's largest companies at a five-year high.

The annual survey - which incorporates the views of the group's 143 in-house investment analysts built on some 16,000 individual company meetings they conduct with corporate decision-makers each year - found corporate confidence has risen steadily since 2016 and is now at a five-year high, indicating a positive outlook on corporate fundamentals for the next 12 months. The survey suggested confidence was "strikingly uniform" across industries and regions, and stronger than last year everywhere except in the technology sector, where confidence levels were already very high. In the above...