Is now a good time to buy UK shares?
These days, investors chase growth. If the UK stock market is viewed as a value play, then it is dangerously out of fashion. What could prompt a re-rating of the UK market?
UK shares underperforming peers
Financial tidings come and go. Some are transient; some persist. Look at interest rates. Down and down for forty years. Not even the 'lower bound' - zero, that is - can stop rates from sinking into negativity. Generational turning points are actually quite rare.
A few weeks ago, Mark Atherton of the Sunday Times asked: "Is this the best time in 40 years to be buying British shares?"
'UK shares,' he pointe...