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The Year of Living Dangerously

Hamish Douglass, the Chairman and CIO at Magellan, explains the intricacies around the vaccines for the virus behind COVID-19, warns a mutant variant could appear and tells why that’s just one risk that could catch out investors in 2021.

Questions covered

  1. Why do you think 2021 is the Year of Living Dangerously?
  2. Should we have confidence in the vaccines?
  3. How likely is a strain so mutant that it derails the assumed economic recovery?
  4. How easy would it be to recode the current vaccines for an escape mutation?
  5. If the vaccines become less effective in preventing infection, should we take comfort that they remain effective in preventing deaths?
  6. Why are investors ignoring the risk of mutant strains?
  7. What is the biggest scientific known unknown at the moment?
  8. How should investors be thinking about risk in the environment?

Watch the webinar here or download the PDF ...

  •   10 March 2021
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