Policy advisor Sam Bowman argues that the UK's low retail investment in domestic equities is driven by poor domestic stock returns rather than cultural risk aversion.
“I think that when you look at, for example, the performance of listed companies, so the FTSE two 50, which is primarily like actually UK operating companies, has performed kind of catastrophically bad over the kind of past 15 years compared to the S&P 500. Like even if you take out the Mag seven which is like Really, really, really crippling the analysis, it's still much, much better to have invested in the S&P.”
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