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Gerard Lyons says that policymakers stuck with this 'bad' tranche of QE, "even though it was quite clear that it was not only not working but exacerbating the situation".
Charlotte Ransom answers the question: "I worry about covering my mum’s care costs – how can I manage my money to help?"
“A perennial problem for the economy has been low investment,” Gerard Lyons, chief economic strategist at Netwealth commented.
"The economy is in a fragile situation and thus the Statement provided a welcome fiscal boost to the economy focused on demand and investment," says Gerard Lyons.
Iain Barnes, chief investment officer at Netwealth, believes gilts performed poorly over the past year due to what he calls an “inflation shock” in the economy, which he felt gilt price declines were a reaction to.
“The alarming reality that nearly half of respondents, who are aged 40 and over, haven’t even considered what they will need in retirement is of huge concern," said Netwealth CEO and founder, Charlotte Ransom.
Gerard Lyons, the chief economic strategist at Netwealth, said “Central banks have gone from being guaranteed buyers of bonds to being guaranteed sellers – and that has economic and financial market implications.”
“There is a transition happening within the markets, as people move from caring primarily about inflation, to caring about growth rates, and then to caring about debt levels in economies," says Gerard Lyons, chief economic strategist at Netwealth.
