Why investors must adapt to biggest market shift in 25 years

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Markets are at a major turning point which will see trading behaviour change dramatically for the first time in 25 years, according to MAM Funds' Gervais Williams.

The firm’s managing director and manager of the Diverse Income trust and Acuim UK Multi Cap Income fund said the past quarter of a century has been a broadly positive environment for investors. However, as conditions become more challenging, he predicts several new trends will hit the marketplace. “We have been in a period where investment trends have been established for many years – there has been globalisation, relatively fast economic growth, favourable trading conditions, and improving margins. We have had setbacks, of course, in 2008 but also in 2003 when internet stocks got hammer...

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