UK fund investors give government’s growth plans a ‘clear thumbs down’ Investing British investors continued to flee London’s stock market in January in a “clear thumbs down” to the government’s growth agenda, according to a closely watched funds survey. UK-focused equity funds shed some £1.07bn through January in the sixth worst month on record despite the FTSE 100 hitting an all-time high, according to data from funds [...]
UK stock funds suffer worst year on record as investors pull nearly £10bn Investing UK-focused stock funds suffered their worst year on record last year as investors yanked nearly £10bn from the market, new figures have shown. While equity vehicles globally raked in a record £27.2bn through 2024, UK funds haemorrhaged some £9.6bn in their most sluggish year ever relative to the performance of the wider market, according to [...]
Investors pile into UK equities after pre-Budget selling Investing UK equity funds ended a 41-month streak of outflows last month as investors piled back into the market following Rachel Reeves’s tax-raiding Budget. After suffering their worst month on record before in the run up to the October fiscal plans, fund flows reversed sharply as investors poured money back into the market, with buying for [...]
UK fund withdrawals reach largest on record amid Budget panic November 4, 2024 UK equity fund withdrawals reached their largest on record in October as investors pulled billions out of markets to escape tax rises in the Budget. Investors sold a £2.7bn stake in funds throughout the month in anticipation of Chancellor Rachel Reeves hiking capital gains tax, up from £564m of withdrawals in September, according to data [...]
UK investors exit domestic funds in droves after global market rout September 4, 2024 The hope of a rally in UK investment was thwarted last month as the number of UK investors selling out of domestic equity funds doubled due to the downturn in global markets. UK investors pulled £510m from British-focused equity funds in August, more than double the figure in July when outflows reached their lowest level [...]
UK funds receive record inflows in first six months of 2024 July 4, 2024 The first six months of the year saw UK investors bet big on markets and make record deposits into equity funds, with £1.7bn added in June.
UK investors cash out en masse after FTSE 100’s record rally June 6, 2024 Flows into equity funds cratered in May after a bumper ISA season, new data has shown, with investors charging out of UK stocks after a record-setting FTSE 100 rally.
ISA season breaks new record despite UK outflows revealing ‘structural problem’ May 8, 2024 Charles Hall, head of research at Peel Hunt, warned that the data showed "exactly why the UK market has a structural problem".
Cashing out: UK investors were ‘most negative’ last year with exodus from equities January 31, 2024 UK investors were the “most negative” of any country in 2023, withdrawing $1.8bn (£1.4bn) from equity funds throughout the year. Globally, the value of mutual funds rose to $10.7trn throughout 2023, largely due to surging asset prices, undoing the damage done by mass withdrawals in 2021, data from Calastone’s Global Fund Flows report revealed. The [...]