Andrew Aldridge: How should EIS investors play Brexit countdown?

Invest this year or ‘wait and see’

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With less than a year to go before the UK is set to leave the EU, Andrew Aldridge considers the pros and cons of investing in smaller domestic companies now or waiting until the economic outlook is clearer

As we head towards the UK leaving the European Union (EU), there continues to be much discussion about what the UK economy will resemble in the second quarter of 2019 and beyond - and, by extension, whether people should be investing now or holding onto their money until the exit process is formalised and the outlook is clearer. In March last year, the Prime Minister invoked Article 50 and fired the starting gun on our formal negotiations for the UK to leave the EU. We are now less than a year away from the completion of that ‘formal process' and, in March 2019, it is anticipated we will...

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