Multi-asset insight: Video interview with Ayesha Akbar

Fidelity International portfolio manager's current outlook

Julian Marr
clock • 1 min read

Fidelity International portfolio manager Ayesha Akbar talks to Julian Marr about the the current investment outlook, the potential risks, market volatility and the possibility investors are being complacent.

This short video interview covers the following points: * The kind of investment environment investors are currently facing; * Potential risks and specifically those posed by China; * The unusually low equity market volatility seen this year when most commentators had expected the opposite; and * Whether that means investors are being too complacent.

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