Asset Management

UK assets too hot to handle while Brexit and Corbyn risks loom

Investment heavyweights warn investors will continue to shun the UK until such threats can be completely discounted

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn Photo: Getty Images

Investment heavyweights have warned that international investors will continue to shun the UK until the dual threat of a hard Brexit and a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn can be completely discounted.

Investors have avoided the UK amid uncertainty over the country’s future relationship with the European Union. Net outflows since the referendum vote in June 2016 from funds which invest specifically in UK companies reached $29.8bn, according to data from EPFR.

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