UK

Shares slide 34%

UK All Companies sector worst

Mark Barnett, head of UK equities at Invesco Perpetual and manager of the Edinburgh investment trust, analyses the growing pressures on listed companies from a number of sources.

Market volatility is back with a bang. Given the US equity correction, Chinese markets turning negative year-to-date, and ongoing oil price volatility, it would be easy to think everything that could go wrong has done so this year.

When the FCA announced recently it was going to look into the issue of the soft-closing of funds I was tempted to say "better late than never".

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