Columbia Threadneedle's Colwell: Navigating monetary policy far bigger risk than Brexit

Very similar environment to dotcom bubble

Tom Eckett
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Richard Colwell, head of UK equities and manager of the £4.1bn UK Equity Income fund at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has said the big issue of how central banks navigate this period of quantitative tightening will create risks as well as opportunities, pointing to the polarisation of asset prices as one of the "unintended consequences" of quantitative easing (QE).

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