Looking back at 2008 and towards 2009

Julian Chillingworth, Jean Michel Six and Richard Jeffrey discuss the events that rocked last year and what to expect from the coming 12 months

Our latest Conjecture debate looked back at the unexpected events of 2008 and considered the economic and market outlook for 2009. Our panel included Julian Chillingworth, CIO of Rathbones Unit Trust Management, Jean Michel Six, chief European economist for Standard & Poor's and Richard Jeffrey, head of strategy and economics at Cazenove Capital Management. How have the panellists' views changed, if at all, since the start of the year? Richard Jeffrey (RJ): It has clearly been quite an astonishing year and I think it is quite interesting to look back at people's forecasts for world ...