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ou might be forgiven if you think we have been in this particular spiral of events before. The summer of 2014, anyone? The last Gaza war? Demonstrators on the streets, a spike in antisemitism… and then it all died down. Sort of.
Except that the following year, with a new leader of the Labour Party, all the seething hatred that found expression on the street came bubbling to the surface.
With Jeremy Corbyn’s accession to power, the disgusting things that could never be said in public about Jews suddenly were said. Those on the extremes of the political spectrum gave themselves permission to say the unsayable, write the previously unthinkable.
Dewi John: Equity takes a trip – in an ethical way
You may not be going abroad any time soon – but here is why your equity allocation is likely to
The big success story of late has been global equities. The Refinitiv Lipper classification Equity Global has raked in £16.9bn from UK investors over the 12 months to the end of March. That is heavily loaded towards the back end, with £5.5bn in the last quarter of 2020 and £6.5bn in the first quarter of 2021.
Global equities’ popularity is not simply a facet of the broader asset class. Asset allocators and academics have long mourned investors’ home bias to the detriment of optimising risk-adjusted returns. That is certainly not the case now, as Equity UK has shed £1.8bn over the past year – losing £2.2bn in the first quarter of 2021 alone – despite the rally in the shares of UK PLC.
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