The UK stock market has been described as cheap, undervalued and out of favour for years. But according to Clive Beagles, the real story is far more alarming: at the current rate of takeovers, the UK could have no stock market left in ten years.
So is it time to back Britain – or is it already too late?
In this episode of Investing Unlocked, Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert talk to Clive Beagles – Senior Fund Manager at J O Hambro Capital Management – to make sense of why one of the world's oldest stock markets is sleepwalking towards irrelevance.
They get into the "Cool Britannia" era of the 90s versus today, how negative press coverage has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and what the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 actually tell you about the UK economy.
Clive also explains how unlocking the vast savings held by UK households could be the key to turning things around – and what investors should actually do with UK equities right now.
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