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Getting to Work

UK stocks are cheap, but they won't be for long

© Alamy Ask any banker or lawyer who works in private equity how busy he or she is right now, and you’ll get the same answer, says Ben Martin in The Times. This is, one lawyer told him, “the busiest period we’ve seen in the last 20 years”. There have been three £1bn-plus bids for FTSE 250 stocks in the last week – and so far this year 38 UK stocks (including RSA Insurance, William Hill and Aggreko) have become merger or takeover targets to a value of about £42bn.  You can see this as good news. Until recently, much of the rest of the world (and much of the UK too) had fallen for the idea that post-Brexit Britain would be a basket case. They priced our assets accordingly – Simon French of Panmure Gordon (MoneyWeek podcast with him coming soon) reckons that even after controlling for our heavy weightings to low-growth stocks, “UK public companies remain between 10% and 15% undervalued against their international counterparts”. It could be more:  John explains in