Getting back into bonds and equities - the debate starts here

Fancy leaving the country for the first two weeks of May? I certainly intend to do so if only to avoid the prospect of being forced to sit through the wall-to-wall general election coverage.

The fact this is being billed as “the most exciting” campaign in living memory and the “election that could change everything” fills me with dread if only because it is obvious whoever wins will be inheriting a poisoned chalice of biblical proportions. It is also obvious none of the main parties are thinking terribly hard about the immense investment crisis facing this country. If I could summarise the issue it would be as follows: the British do not save enough and what we do save is largely put into real estate, which is quite possibly facing a lost decade of miserably low returns. ...