Be prepared: Five ways to protect investment portfolios from Brexit

The EU referendum on 23 June 2016 could be a close call.  The latest polls are neck and neck, but bookies currently put about a 20% chance on us leaving the EU. The truth is, no one really knows what the result will be. The polls are notoriously unreliable and there has never really been a vote like this before: it's a binary decision, but people are voting on a variety of factors. We need to be as prepared as possible for every scenario.   Short-term market volatility Whatever the longer-term outlook for the economy, I think it's safe to say that, in the very short-term, if a...