income ETF strategies, King reveals that each ETF follows an investment strategy developed by the group's in-house research team that leverages fundamental active insights to inform the factor definitions and applies portfolio construction principles to mitigate the unintended biases.

David Cumming, Aviva Investors' chief investment officer for equities, last year witnessed turbulent times for UK equities but he remains positive about the market in which he has a personal as well as a professional stake.

World stockmarkets could see 65% coronavirus plunge

The emergency airdrop of fiscal and monetary support provided to fight back in the battle against the coronavirus impact on the global economy continues to prevent further dives in world markets.

This battle is, of course, not receiving a helping hand from the climbing numbers of the disease and fatalities,possible market carnage.

In the event that world stockmarkets decline towards 65% from peaks, the coronavirus crisis will far eclipse the beyond-50% declines experienced during the historic Global Financial Crisis 12 years ago.

As unfavourable as the above reads, there is also an unfortunate reality that emerging markets are collectively still at the early stages of the journey for market chaos.

Both the Indian rupee and South African rand have declined to new record lows, while the Indonesian rupiah weakened beyond 3.8% at time of writing (23 March).

Emerging markets are also facing an episode of double trouble arriving from both world stockmarket volatility, as well as driving demand for the dollar.

The dollar index appears to be on the road to gradually advancing to 105, which resonates to carnage for emerging markets