The views set out in the podcast represent the latest thinking to emerge from the quarterly Global Investment Group, or GIG, chaired by Keith Skeoch, Chairman of the Aberdeen Standard Investment’s Research Institute. The GIG’s role is to characterise the current and future risk-return environment at a high level.

Glimmers of hope are appearing in the form of globally approved vaccine's. This, along with a change in The White House, gives investors much to consider in the coming months.