On this week’s Podcast Ben Gutteridge, Head of Fund Research, talks to Ewen Cameron Watt, Chief Investment Strategist at BlackRock Investment Institute, to discuss some of the key factors that may drive the Fed to get started on hiking interest rates. The conversation then turns to the Emerging World and the UK before some brief coverage of Japan and Europe. Finally the pair discuss asset allocation, revealing where Ewen sees the greatest investment opportunities in financial markets. 

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