Three post-Brexit investment scenarios to consider

'The agenda is shifting'

Victoria McKeever
clock • 3 min read

Post-Brexit investors could be forgiven for asking what all the fuss was about but change is definitely coming, according to Peter Toogood. Here he outlines three economic scenarios investors should think about…

Toogood, investment director at City Financial consultancy The Adviser Centre, said anyone who predicted utter chaos following the referendum was always going to "look rather foolish". He said: "For now, we are still inside Europe, unemployment is still falling and wages are still rising, so what's not to like? The referendum was, at best, a distraction from the overriding question of how we break out of the current cycle of monetary intervention and asset pump-priming." Toogood (pictured) added: "As we have seen in Japan over the past 20 years, the Average Joe may have enjoyed the be...

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