Port in a storm: Five holdings giving funds protection today

"We find ourselves in a scarcely credible era of uncertainty. Domestic politics, geopolitical tensions and war, inflation, labour shortages, recession, strikes, energy shortages; all these factors have the capacity to heavily affect the outlook for the companies in which we invest. "All the issues are fixable but not without strong leadership. That's the most concerning thing this time around. After similar issues in the 1970s, the 1980s saw Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and, perhaps most importantly, Paul Volcker (chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1979 to 198...