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Economic forecasts, risky assets and upside risk from vaccines

While investors appear to have become much more optimistic after recent news about a COVID-19 vaccine, central banks have struck a more cautious tone. In our view, a higher chance of an effective vaccine improves the distribution of outcomes for risky assets significantly. We expect that they will rally further, especially as we think that government bond yields will remain very low over the next couple of years.

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