Ian Cowie

Investment: Will bonds crash as shares rise?

Two investment experts debate the prospect of a ‘Great Rotation’

issue 23 February 2013

Tim Price: In a normal market, maybe. But not in this one

UK base rate squats at 0.5 per cent, its lowest level in history — or since the formation of the Bank of England in 1694, which is much the same thing. With sporadic signs of inflation and patchy evidence of recovery, plus a new broom at the Bank of England who is expected to be boldly interventionist, the financial chatterati are transfixed by the prospect of the ‘Great Rotation’.

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