Justin Onuekwusi: Into our Multi-Asset World Cup knock-out stages

‘Round of 16’ and quarter-finals

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As the 2018 World Cup enters the knock-out rounds, Justin Onuekwusi unveils the criteria deciding which countries make it through to the latter stages of the LGIM Multi-Asset World Cup - and the last four standing

This is the second of three articles covering the drama of the LGIM Multi-Asset World Cup, an international tournament with just as much excitement as the FIFA tournament now being played out in Russia - and just as much controversy too. You can read our first piece, which sets out the terms of engagement and group-stage results, here Everybody in this World Cup is competing on a number of economic and financial market criteria - the same type of criteria the Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) Multi-Asset team uses to decide what countries and markets might make good investment...

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