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05/05/202032 mins

[Podcast] Central bankers just want to be loved

MoneyWeek’s Merryn Somerset Webb and John Stepek discuss central bank stimulus measures amid the Covid-19 pandemic and some potentially unintended economic consequences. In this week’s Fund Manager interview with Merryn (starting at 24:30), our Manager, Alasdair McKinnon, also touches on the subject, explaining how such monetary action has influenced his investment approach as well as discussing some of the portfolio changes he made ahead of the recent stockmarket correction.

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