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In these times of heightened market volatility, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have delivered on the main attributes that attract investors to utilising the wrapper, liquidity, transparency and cost efficiency, according to Franklin Templeton’s Head of EMEA ETF Capital Markets Jason Xavier.

John Rekenthaler, Vice President of Research for Morningstar discusses how the stock market is not the economy and explains how the two are drifting even further apart.

Investing in a mutual fund may seem daunting and overwhelming at first. Before you get mired in a number of details, you need to decide whether you want some help choosing your funds or whether you would rather do it on your own.

The playbook used to be simple, size and market power mattered, and the strategy was to create value by controlling the value chain. This concept is now broken, and more companies than ever are required to pivot and innovate in a digital world to keep pace with a new generation.

In this article Morningstar take a look at how the coronavirus has affected the market and what to do about it, if anything. Even though the market has partially recovered from the sharp sell-off in late February and March 2020, there is still considerable uncertainty about the economic fallout from the virus.