How will pension freedoms be judged?

A look back at investment trends over the past 30 years highlights a number of key events which significantly affected investors' behaviour.

The recently published joint paper by Fundscape and the Pridham Report, entitled the Definitive Guide to the UK Fund Industry 2015, begins by examining the impact of Mrs Thatcher’s privatisations of the 1980s, which attracted a new generation of smaller investors to shares; Its scope also encompasses the introduction of corporate bond PEPs in 1995; the fall-out from the dot.com bubble in 2000, which resulted in many equity investors getting their fingers burnt; the legacy of the financial crisis, and the impact of popular recent vehicles such as the Standard Life Global Absolute Return S...