2016 got off to a rocky start. Not long into January, after just a few trading days, global equity markets lost more than US$4tn of value due to investor sentiment towards China’s economic slowdown and depreciating currency. This was immediately followed by a slump in the oil price. By the third week of January, Brent Crude hit its year low at $27.10 a barrel causing an immediate sell off in the energy sector. Once the Q1 dust had settled, attention turned to the UK’s vote on whet
