Feb 23 2007
Investment returns
If you look at the All Share Index you will see the point I was making about equities.
Over the last five years since the market decline the total return on the All Share Index has been 51%. The return on world government bonds (Citigroup index) has been a tiny 8.4%, and on UK property a massive 145% (EPRA/NAREIT total return commercial)
Of course pension funds and others would have done even better if they had sold their equities before 2000 and bought them back in 2002/3.
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
I’ve drank in the bars round hedge fund alley before John, you won’t convince me it wasn’t the short-sellers that raked in it during the slump.