Engage with stakeholders in distressed times

ALTHOUGH volatility is a daily fact of life in financial markets, it would be fair to say that the past six months or so have been particularly difficult for investors. On top of the political upheaval that is Brexit and an offshore marine sector that has yet to recover from a devastating collapse in oil prices, markets are now grappling with a hugely unpredictable US-China trade war that, by most accounts, will have negative consequences for the global economy.

The effects are already being felt - the Singapore government has regularly revised the growth outlook downwar…