Uncertainties regarding the coronavirus – when the spread of the epidemic will slow and how long lockdown measures will last – are keeping financial markets under stress. The US government’s failure this weekend to agree on a stimulus package raises concerns about the country’s ability to fight the virus and its economic impact, but last week’s measures by the Fed and the ECB have helped stabilize bond markets, according to Ewout van Schaick, head of Multi Asset. “Investors who don’t want to put all their money in cash can allocate part of their money again in safe government bonds,” Van Schaick says in our latest podcast. “For more opportunities in the market, I think we have to wait until fiscal policy is helping out as well.”