Sam Unstead

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276 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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Merryn Talks Money · SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

This is the government being urged to do something.

And gilts have become quite a bit more popular with retail investors over the course of the last year, because yields are pretty high.

And so they have got more popular, but certainly nowhere near the kind of investment kind of depth that you would see in the US.

So there's a push here because there's about two trillion pounds of deposits that could be put to work in the gilt market.

You know, the argument is perfectly sensible, right?

You will get a much better return from buying gilts than you will from leaving your money in deposits.

That is no question.

Even if gilts have the best year they've had in, well, maybe ever, you'll still get a better return from buying gilts.

But one of the things that puts, I think, a lot of investors off buying stocks is volatility.

And UK investors in general are just enormously risk averse.

They are just very frightened of this idea of stocks going up and down, which I can tell you they do every single day.

And gilts, particularly in the last couple of months, have been much more volatile because of the war in Iran and the inflationary effects and the shift in the Bank of England curve that's happened recently.

So the daily moves are much more significant.

I mean, if anything, they sort of act, you know, they look a little bit like stocks at the moment.

So getting people to do that is just so hard, you know, and, you know, John, you've written about this extensively in your career, probably.

But it is really complex because I was saying on the desk earlier today that

I think in order to actually get this behavioral change to happen, you sort of need everything to all go in a kind of positive direction all at once for an extended period of time.

And that has not happened in this country for a long time.

I actually, I don't disagree with that.

I think that, but I think the problem is,

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