IW Long Reads: Seeing the forest for the trees? How sustainable sectors can make a good addition to alternative investments

Branching out key to improving portfolio diversification

Against a backdrop of prolonged equity market volatility and declining bond yields, income investors have struggled for more than a decade. Goldman Sachs Asset Management has predicted a continued rising trend for equities, despite another six months of coronavirus-induced pain for the US stock market at least, and recommends that "strategic discipline will be key to navigating episodic volatility". IW Long Reads: The industry's roadmap to measuring the 'S' in ESG China recently issued its first-ever negative rate bond, and the Bank of England's sceptre of negative interest rates has been...