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Lessons from behavioural economics

by Philip Broadley | Jun 29, 2020

Overcoming trustees’ bias towards the short-term.

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Be smart – keep China onside

by Savvas Savouri | Jun 16, 2020

Even before the crisis we remain engulfed in, there were those so distrustful of China’s actions and ambitions, they demanded the UK keep it at a long arms-length. So much so in...

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Death of the office? Better call Saul!

by James Roberts | Jun 2, 2020

A TV series about a struggling lawyer gives us some clues on what the post-Covid office might look like. The announcement by Twitter that it will no longer oblige...

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Employment can bounce back – if we let the labour market do its job

by Julian Jessop | May 14, 2020

There may not be many reasons for optimism about the economic outlook, but one is the relative flexibility of the UK labour market. This should help unemployment to fall back and...

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How demographics drove down property yields

by Richard Barkham | May 1, 2020

Long term interest rates, in real and nominal terms, have fallen continuously since the early 1980s, and yields on commercial real estate have come down with them. Most recent...

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Reflections on the Economic Value of Life

by Max Gulker | Apr 27, 2020

For most of human history matters of life and death lay almost entirely outside the material world. Saving a life at any cost feels to most of us like a moral imperative, but the...

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The Scandinavian Experiment: Open vs Close

by Joakim Book | Apr 23, 2020

veryone agrees that people’s life and wellness are more important than GDP figures. But GDP figures are not only the invention of cold-hearted economists with nothing but...

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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

by Peter Warburton | Apr 15, 2020

Incredibly, I have been involved in preparing forecasts of the UK economy for 45 years. I have a reputation for making bearish calls – occasionally successfully – but have never...

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After Covid-19… what will the market look like?

by James Roberts | Apr 8, 2020

The property industry faces a ‘U’ shaped recession, which will lead to investors reshaping portfolios with liquidity in mind. In early April, the PMI indices from IHS...