There is quality out there in UK PLC - write it off at your peril

Still ample opportunities

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It seems that in 2022, we are being inundated with bad news on a daily basis.

If it is not Putin's atrocities in Ukraine or the threat of ever rising interest rates, it is what the media has christened the ‘Cost of Living Crisis' with UK consumer confidence at the lowest levels since the 1970s. Investors have been rattled and in recent meetings that we have attended, there seems to have been very little appetite to be brave and to buy this market. While we do not want to bury our heads in the sand and deny that it is a tricky economic environment out there, we believe there are good news stories coming from UK-based businesses where the underlying business perf...

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