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Posted on 05/13/2025 9:45:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Leading fund managers are warning that sentiment towards the London Stock Exchange is drastically low following a meeting with Downing Street to discuss the issue.
Nick Lawson, chief executive of investment group Ocean Wall, described UK equity markets as being at “rock bottom” following a meeting with Varun Chandra, the government’s special adviser on business.
Lawson was joined at the meeting to discuss ways to revitalise the stock market by star stockpickers such as David Cumming from Newton Investment Management, Schroders’ Andy Brough, and Michael Stiasny from M&G Investments, according to the FT.
“This is the first time I’ve felt that Labour want to listen,” Lawson told Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning.
The fund manager noted that before 2000, UK equities made up 45 per cent of UK pension fund holdings, but that number has since fallen to three per cent, causing a lack of liquidity and drop in value for British stocks.
Speculation has intensified in recent weeks that the government may look to mandate pension funds to invest a set amount in UK equities in an attempt to boost the ailing stock exchange.
“I think there’s a feeling now that we don’t have long left,” Lawson said, adding that one Schroders manager had stated during the meeting: “I am the unofficial liquidator of London’s stock exchange.”
UK companies have increasingly come under attack from foreign buyers due to the relative cheapness of British equities, with many more firms delisting from the stock exchange than floating.
“Many brilliant UK companies now have become value traps, that’s why they’re being bought by private equity and overseas buyers,” said Lawson.
The fund manager also hit back against claims from star fund manager Terry Smith, who said last week that the UK needed “better companies” for investors to buy.
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Nick Lawson, CEO of Ocean Wall and accidental spokesman for the market’s impending demise, laid it bare: “I think there’s a feeling now that we don’t have long left.”
The numbers back him up. UK equities now make up just 3% of domestic pension fund holdings, down from 45% at the turn of the century. With liquidity drying up and valuations comatose, the LSE has become a bargain bin for foreign buyers and a take-private playground. Delistings are outpacing IPOs three to one.
Even LSE CEO David Schwimmer isn’t safe (and not because people think he’s Ross Geller). He just survived a revolt over his £7.8 million pay packet, which landed awkwardly next to the Exchange’s waning equity division.
People have lost faith in Londonstan? More like losing faith in the Peoples Jihadist Republic of UKstan.
“ Speculation has intensified in recent weeks that the government may look to mandate pension funds to invest a set amount in UK equities in an attempt to boost the ailing stock exchange.”
This is how Starmer’s rich buddies will shift their losses onto the middle class pensioners and property taxpayers.
Robinhood app was recently granted a Cat A financial broker license allowing them access to sell US stocks in Europe. Brick and mortar exchanges are dead.
The fund manager noted that before 2000, UK equities made up 45 per cent of UK pension fund holdings, but that number has since fallen to three per cent, causing a lack of liquidity and drop in value for British stocks.
RE: So where is the money being invested instead?
UK pension funds have significantly shifted their investments away from domestic equities over the past two decades. Instead, they have increasingly allocated their assets to bonds, particularly UK government gilts, as well as private equity and overseas stocks.
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