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2020 will be remembered by UK income investors for decades to come.

Following the financial crash of 2008, investors have benefited from a decade of bullish markets, and while there were indications that a slowdown was on the horizon, economic stasis caused by a flu pandemic was not on anyone's radar.

Emerging markets have underperformed global and developed market indices over the past ten years, in spite of having greater opportunities for earnings growth.

A steep contraction in the UK economy is all but inevitable. Indeed, the latest survey data points to a sharp drop in activity since the start of the Covid-19 crisis.

With the UK facing the prospect of the sharpest drop in economic activity for more than 300 years, now seems a challenging time to be searching for growth.

Industrial real estate was historically the grafter of the real estate market, the small, often hidden part of a manager's portfolio.

Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have caused an extraordinary level of operating losses, debt accumulation and dividend cancellation across the UK equity market.

While new coronavirus cases are plateauing, although not yet declining significantly, countries in Europe are beginning to judge the economic pain wreaked by Covid-19 containment measures to be worse than the infection itself and are shifting focus slowly...

There is no doubt companies' sales and earnings are being hit across Japan.