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Bowman: UK Savers Will Take Risk If Returns Improve, Not via Nudges
“I think it's much more likely to be the case that when the money is there, Maybe initially the money will come from international funds, and, you know, there is a lot of money internationally around, but I think it's much, much, much more likely that people ar…”
Bowman: 17% of UK taxpayers will pay higher rates by 2029
“By 2029, so in four years, 17%
Of taxpayers are going to be higher rate taxpayers.
So, fiscal drift, which is just holding the bands constant and letting inflation push people into the higher rate, the 40, the 40, but really forty-two-pee rate is, I mean, more…”
Bowman: FTSE 250 Underperformed S&P 500 Over 15 Years Even Without Mag Seven
“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. Lik…”