Morningstar Uk: Podcasts

Welcome to podcast from Morningstar UK, the leading provider of independent investment research. This week we bring you the highlights from our annual Morningstar Investment conference and more. Our conference is host to advisers, economists, fund managers and academics covering vital and topical issues impacting savers and investors. Let’s get started with our first guest on the podcast, Anna Stupnytska, global economist for Fidelity who warns that global growth and reflation trade has peaked. So should investors be concerned about a global downturn? Why are markets not reacting negatively to bad news? Stock markets hate uncertainty - or so we're taught. But the last year has seen considerable political uncertainty and markets have rallied. We speak to Newton's Iain Stewart, investment leader for newton Investment management to find out why. The textbooks tell us innovation is good for the economy - but as robotics and technology disrupt the status quo could your portfolio returns be impacted? James