Special Market Update: Multi-asset and US equities

Hear Nick Gartside, JPM Strategic Bond Fund manager, discuss how your clients can take advantage of the most compelling opportunities from across the global fixed income spectrum while minimising risk.

Why is it important to diversify an income portfolio? What are the challenges of income in a low interest rate environment? Is this likely to change? How is the investment trust industry adapting to investors' income needs? The investment trusts sector offers an increasingly wide range of options to build an income portfolio, including property, infrastructure and emerging market debt in this panel session the speakers explore all the options at your disposal.

Moderator: David Harris, InvaTrust will be joined by a panel of experts

Hear Andrew Goldberg, Global Market Strategist, give his thoughts on the major issues shaping world markets, as well as answering your questions on the topics affecting the current financial outlook.

Many people rely on their savings to provide an income, whether to pay school fees or to help cover the bills. But today’s low yield environment means your clients may be finding it hard to meet their everyday income needs.

Hear Olivia Mayell, JPM Multi-Asset Income Fund manager, as she discusses how the fund goes further in search of income, drawing on the global resources of J.P. Morgan Asset Management to seek out yield wherever in the world it is to be found.

Hear Nick Gartside, JPM Strategic Bond Fund manager, discuss how your clients can take advantage of the most compelling opportunities from across the global fixed income spectrum while minimising risk.

Join our strategists who will address critical questions facing emerging market investors:

- Are the long-term drivers of emerging economies still intact?
- Has China's soft patch really come to an end?
- What are the implications of recent monetary policy in Japan for EM?
- Is emerging market debt still an attractive place for yield?
- Are European investors structurally underweight EM?

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from our strategists and put forward your questions.

Massive long-term infrastructure programmes mean emerging market demand is fuelling the commodity sector.

Hear Neil Gregson, manager of the JPM Natural Resources Fund, as he discusses how the fund can give your clients exposure to the many exciting opportunities within the natural resources sector.

The first six months of the year have seen a startling rise in equity markets in spite of the lack of any real improvement in the wider economic environment. But the gains have been focused on certain sectors and geographic regions, while areas such as commodities have significantly lagged. In this panel we ask the following questions of the markets:

• Is there still value in equity markets and if so, where?
• What will be the key pinch points for the markets in the second half?
• Which trusts are best equipped to generate strong returns in that environment?

Moderator: Szymon Idzikowski, Morningstar will be joined by a panel of industry experts.

Hear portfolio manager, Talib Sheikh, and client portfolio manager, Olivia Mayell, as they provide an update on the JPM Cautious Total Return Fund.

Hear Kerry Craig, Market Analyst within the Global Market Insights Strategy Team, as he gives his thoughts on the major issues shaping world markets, as well as answering your questions on the topics affecting the current financial outlook.