UK - Bonds have outperformed equities for the third year in a row, the latest Barclays Equity Gilt Study shows.
UK equities delivered a negative real return of 24.5% in 2003, while gilts returned 6.7%, corporate bonds 6.6% and index-linked gilts 5.1%. Worse still, equities have now underperformed gilts ov...
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