Coronavirus lockdown one year on: What does the future hold for UK assets?

First stay-at-home order issued on this day

"From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction: you must stay at home."

"From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction: you must stay at home." The words from Boris Johnson still sound as foreboding now as they did a year ago today, when the Prime Minister announced the first national lockdown in a live TV address. Indeed, Monday 23 March 2020 was the day normal life in the UK was upended - and the UK's investment sector was not immune to the effects of the stay-at-home order. But now, 12 months on, and with a roadmap for the easing of restrictions in motion, there appears to some light at the end of the tunnel. With th...