asset allocation

'Choppy market conditions' ahead

Negative rates will drive investment outcomes for a “protracted period” as the world adapts and responds to the Covid-19 crisis, according to Robeco.

Global equities also show steady increase

New range draws from rated funds to target risk profiles

“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president

The market response first, to the Covid-19 crisis, and second, to the huge stimulus packages announced to offset it, has been astonishing.

Deciding how best to ease the UK's coronavirus lockdown is proving as divisive as Brexit.

Will predominantly invest in UK smaller companies

While coming within a whisker of calling the low for the S&P 500, it is fruitless attempting to call short-term market moves.

The speed and scale of the market decline has been the defining feature of this market downturn, although this has been matched in unprecedented rapidity of response by both central banks and governments.