The coronavirus outbreak has come to Europe and is starting to affect some things in our day-to-day lives, writes Martin Bamford. But it also has implications for financial planners at work too…
Our local supermarket has run out of toilet rolls, paracetamol and pasta. Events are being cancelled or converted to online summits. News media is running live blogs to report on the latest panic buying, infection rates and occasional deaths. Stock markets are in the red, with the virus seemingly the catalyst we've all been waiting for to tip global economies in an overdue recession. There's still a great deal unknown about the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19. I find myself somewhere in the middle of taking extra precautions (my hands have never been so clean!) ...
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