Investment styles for when the backdrop is 'triggering alarm bells'

'Massive dispersions' between equity market returns

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Bond yields are plunging amid trade wars, we have low and falling inflation and economic growth is slowing - all of which should be triggering alarm bells and would normally be expected to negatively impact riskier assets.

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