It’s not just the weather outside that’s wild. Caught in the eye of global bond turbulence, weak gilts are driving UK borrowing costs to precipitous highs. Head of fixed income Bryn Jones explains why he’s warming to higher-yielding UK government bonds as others get cold feet.

Our head of multi-asset investments, David Coombs, makes a bad Nostradamus. Lucky he’s a fund manager! Here are his predictions for markets in the year ahead. Spoiler alert: he’s usually wrong. But it’s all about the direction of travel…