John Husselbee: People watching

'See how it shapes them as investors'

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In his monthly column for Professional Adviser John Husselbee notes how the young fund managers of today are not able to learn first-hand and in-person from their more experienced colleagues in their first market crisis

My two weeks in Spain at the end of August was a welcome change of scene after months of lockdown and working at home, even though it bought me a further two weeks' quarantine back in the UK. This time abroad, away from the ‘office', gave me plenty of scope for a spot of people watching and a chance to observe how we are all adapting to the new normal. With many of my fellow holidaymakers being English, they will have faced a similar quarantine on returning to the UK but the question of working from home is a difficult and potentially divisive one as the government tries to get the econo...

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