Can you afford to ignore UK equities?

If lots of people are asking ‘Why bother with UK equities?' then history says that now is the time to invest

UK equities have become unfashionable. Just ask our pension funds – they have less than 14% of their assets in UK shares, compared to almost 50% only ten years ago. Just ask life companies – they now have no more than a fifth of their liabilities covered by London-quoted equities. Just ask your average retail investor and they have been putting money to work in anything other than UK companies – corporate bonds, gold and emerging Markets. The outlook is better elsewhere isn’t it, so we can afford to ignore UK equities, can’t we? The answer actually lies in the question. As we now know th...