Polar Capital's Douglas 'optimistic' on defensive healthcare

Eye on large-cap pharma and biotech

Jenna Brown
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Defensive areas within healthcare provide nuggets of optimism, with large-cap pharmaceuticals and large-cap biotechnology particularly favoured, Polar Capital has said.

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