IW Long Reads: Glad tidings we bring? How UK equities are slowly winning over investors after a rough 2020

Will it be a happy new year for domestic stocks?

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Unloved and undervalued. Two adjectives probably more commonly used to describe UK equities in recent years than any other. With the FTSE's composition being dominated by value stocks, which have been out-of-favour since 2007, and the negative shadow of Brexit compounding bearish sentiment towards the UK since the referendum, it is little wonder international investors have been withdrawing out of the country's listed assets in droves. Since June 2016, global investors have pulled $60bn (£43.9bn) away from UK equities, according to EPFR data. The UK remains the lowest regional underweight...

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