
CIO Monthly View with Will Bartleet, CIO and multi-asset portfolio manager at Pacific Asset Management
Equity markets
rounded off an extraordinary year with gains in most markets. The global roll out of the vaccine for COVID-19 began in the UK, which was the first
country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency also approved the AstraZeneca/Oxford University
vaccine which has the advantage of being able to be stored in a conventional refrigerator, easing the distribution challenges of the Pfizer and Moderna
vaccines.