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What's going to keep you up at night going into the second half of the year? What are you most concerned about? Liquidity, right now. At what point do customers react, clients react to what's going on this year and move out? And what implications can that have on asset prices? What keeps you up at night? A couple of things. We talked about the energy crisis and the impact that will have on people's bills in the UK up from £800 to £3,000. That's going to cause immense distress and immense damage to the economy and people's well-being effectively. So we’ve got to be worried about that. The German shut down as well, possibly four day weeks thanks to the gas crisis there. And the other thing I think is that the threats to democracy that we face at the moment from leaders who don't want to leave office or who don't believe in the rule of law. We've got mid-term elections in the US. So those two things together I think make it quite a difficult place for the remainder of 2022 and perhaps beyond. What about you, Eva? What's keeping you up at night? I think as everyone said, you know, the commodity potential crisis I think is a is a big thing as we go into winter. Inflation potentially, as we say, affecting the standard of living for a lot of people, especially the lower income brackets. I think a big one for me is the risk of policy error. And as we spoke about, it feels like central banks are catching up. But I think there's a real risk of now overcompensating and really, you know, throwing economies into recession perhaps prematurely. So I think that's something that worries me from a bond fund managers perspective.