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Oil price crash could be a blessing in disguise

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Outlook for 2016: What’s in store?

The hope is that this very challenging backdrop will lead to simplification and standardisation of business processes and an improvement in industry returns on capital. Sector valuations currently discount little potential improvement, providing a ‘cheap’ option on successful industry change.

Andrew Hall is global equities manager at Invesco Perpetual

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