Veteran UK investor Jim Slater is known for his penchant for high-flying growth shares. But that doesn’t mean he’s always optimistic. Slater has lived through many market cycles in his five decades of investing, and like any great investor he knows that shares go down as well as up. Back in 2008 I found his [...]
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Should we be as worried as the markets are about equities, or should we more fear low bond yields? It really depends on our time horizon.
It’s a torrid time for stock markets, but why would anyone sane prefer to buy government bonds at historically tiny yields?
The UK stock market has been talked down by every other fund manager and share tipper out there. In response, it has soared.
In the ten years since the dotcom shares peaked and then began to plunge, everything and nothing has changed.
The markets are still far below a level they first reached in 2000. They may go up or down, but don’t doubt we’ve suffered enough.
Today I read an article from Alan Steel, a fund manager. Here are the key reasons why he thinks the March low means equity investors could see great returns for years.