Morningstar: Value will significantly outperform growth

US equity positions reduced

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The economic recovery is likely to “morph into a new economic expansion”, the research team at Morningstar Investment Management Europe, says, describing the recent supportive backdrop as “unique and powerful”.

As such, the team believes there is scope for value stocks to outperform and has taken equity positions across energy and financial companies, explaining that value stocks remain "among the largest driver of our portfolios at this current time". The team has also reduced its US equity positions across multi-asset portfolios to underweights, offset by "healthy" allocations to the UK, Japan and emerging markets as it "broadly positions" for a "continuation of the economic recovery".  The team added: "Recoveries, by definition, are transitory. They consist of a period of time following a...

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