Keith Churchouse: Learning from a year in lockdown

What will you take with you?

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Keith Churchouse reflects on the past 12 months in lockdown and asks what other advisers have learned from their pandemic experiences

The pandemic has been like a holiday in reverse, almost like being back at school. You have been tied up at home for months, and now you just want to go back to work, to people, to socialising and interacting; indeed, to living. The pandemic and its restrictive conditions have been with us for a year now, but as we all know the end is finally in sight. Twitter is alight with jokes about the merriment that we might encounter on 21 June, subject of course to the data not stifling the planned full release we have craved for about 11 months now. So, the bell is about to ring for us all...

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