Ramin Nakisa
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So there are lots of reasons why I might switch.
And at the moment, we're kind of reaching the point where I'm thinking, yeah, there are quite a few guilts now where I'd be better off than, you know, getting a money market fund.
Just a higher return.
So let's say you buy it today, you lock in 4.5%, say, for the next two years.
Whereas with a money market fund, it just picks up whatever rate the Monetary Policy Committee thinks up that week.
And that can change over time.
Yeah, I mean, in the UK, we're kind of blessed in the sense that we have a high short-term interest rate.
A lot of people say it's bad, and it is for the government because they have to borrow at that rate.
But for us, it's great.
You know, I speak to people in Europe where the rate's 2% rather than 4%, you know, in the UK, 3.75%.
So, yeah, I think we're in a situation now where a money market fund's pretty good, simple, they're very cheap, the fees are about 0.1% for the cheapest, and so simple, right?
You just put your money in, that's it.
If you go for the income version, it's always worth a quid.
It just throws out cash flows every so often.
If you buy the accumulation version, it just looks like a bank account where it just trundles upwards.
If it's a rampy one, that's the income version.
I've had people call me and say, what the hell's happened?
You know, I thought this was safe.
But then you actually zoom out on the y-axis.
It's like a penny above one, one pound or-