European Management Roundtable with Herman Deetman
Summary: European infra navigates, and survives, a pandemic. The asset class passes its trial by fire providing its resilience and leading our six fund managers to look ahead with some optimism, reports Kalliope Gourntis
A year has passed but much has changed in the relatively short period since our last European fund management roundtable.
At the time, Brexit, trade wars and tepid economic growth were front of mind. Although these continue to cause concern, they certainly seem more mundane than the health crisis the world is still grappling with.
At the time of writing, only a few days after this year’s virtual roundtable was held, a number of European countries had imposed second national lockdowns, thereby making the path to economic recovery even more uncertain.
Yet despite the upheaval covid-19 has imposed upon the world and our daily routines, the two mega-trends we identified a year ago for the European market have not only proved resilient; they have thrived during the health crisis.
