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We expect markets to remain polarised: Centrum Broking's Nischal Maheshwari

Given the ongoing global risk sentiment, investors are flocking to safe-haven asset classes and avoiding risky EM asset classes, said Maheshwari

Nischal Maheshwari
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Though the worst seems to be behind us, it is going to be a slow path towards normalisation - Nischal Maheshwari

Puneet Wadhwa New Delhi
The outbreak of coronavirus opens up an unanticipated and unmeasured downside risk, feels NISCHAL MAHESHWARI, chief executive officer for institutional equities & advisory at Centrum Broking. In the short to medium term, a defensive portfolio strategy is recommended, he tells Puneet Wadhwa. Edited excerpts:
 
How are the markets likely to play out over the next three-six months?

The outbreak of coronavirus has occurred at a time when the global and the domestic economies are facing a slowdown. The fear of supply-chain disruptions, likely to occur because of the industrial clampdown in certain Chinese provinces, has obstructed the nascent signs of global