Asset managers and journalists: Life in lockdown

The start of a new way of working?

By the time this piece goes live, it will have been almost exactly one month since Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave an unprecedented broadcast to the nation, announcing that UK residents must stay home to help fight the spread of coronavirus.

With a majority of the population urged to work from home, the country has had to very quickly adapt its way of working. This of course includes the asset management and wealth management industries - a sector that relies heavily on teamwork, company or fund management meetings and movements in the value of assets. Given the extreme volatility in markets caused by entire sectors ceasing to function almost overnight, unparalleled levels of uncertainty and swathes of extraordinary monetary policy, it seems as though the industry has a lot to cope with in the face of the pandemic.  Ed...