UK equities: The 2020 outlook for this year's worst-performing stockmarket

Several fund managers share their views

There are areas of “substantial value” within the UK equity market, according to some investment professionals, who believe that geopolitical uncertainty is more than priced into equities, while companies with strong fundamentals have been unfairly swept up in broad-based negative investor sentiment.

However, others warn that while it is important to look through market noise, Brexit uncertainty will nevertheless "hamstring" growth in the UK over the medium-to-long term, so its equities should be approached with caution. During Q3 of this year, the UK's GDP annual growth slowed to a nine-and-a-half year low, having expanded just 1% year-on-year over the quarter, according to data from Trading Economics. Beyond Brexit: The global headwinds and tailwinds facing UK equities George Lagarias, chief economist at Mazars, said the UK's economy has struggled to grow because it is marked...