MB Fund Podcast: Are markets cured of COVID at last?

With vaccine clotting issues causing delays to rollout worldwide, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, senior analyst Radek Zeleny, Head of Advice Tim Fuller the investment team investigate if this be catalyst for a stock market stumble

Locally, our own federal government is currently under fire for a slow and troubled rollout that has seen it dump its goal of having everyone receive at least one jab by October, and uncertainties have prevented any new deadlines being set.

But vaccination efforts have not been without their own problems, with serious side effects emerging from several of the major vaccines which is turn is hampering widespread delivery and destroying fragile public confidence in getting the jab.

So now the question remains, will these surfacing vaccine issues manage to infect the current elevated confidence in global stock markets, and what steps can be taken to protect investment portfolios?