Retail investors have remained more sensitive to domestic policy than geopolitical events, a Winterflood report found.
While geopolitical-related outflows in Q1 amid crises in Venezuela, Greenland and Iran totalled almost £1.4bn, outflows running up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Autumn budget reached more than £1.9bn, according to Winterflood's Retail Investor Report on Wednesday (29 April). The report found UK retail investors remained "astute" through Q1, as they navigated US President Donald Trump's rhetoric in global commodity markets as geopolitical crises took hold in Venezuela, Greenland and Iran. While investors were unfazed by the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, t...
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