Are investors facing an equity bubble?

ON UK GROWTH

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The first few months of 2013 have witnessed an inexorable rise in global equity markets, and the UK has been no different. Investors have been seduced by a continuous supply of cheap money, as existing quantitative easing (QE) measures have been extended and new schemes have commenced.

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