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Investors fled stock market at rapid pace
South Wales Evening Post
|January 08, 2026
BRITISH investors pulled out of the stock market at a record pace last year, as Budget uncertainty sparked a flight to safe-haven assets.
Equity fund outflows hit £6.7bn in 2025, twice the rate suffered in 2016, the year of the Brexit referendum, where outflows reached £3.3bn, according to global funds network Calastone.
December marked the seventh consecutive month of outflows, with investors withdrawing net £188m, bringing the total since June 2025 to £10.6bn and marking the longest selling spree on record.
Actively managed funds bore the brunt of outflows, shedding £18.9bn of capital in 2025, compared to inflows of £12.2bn for passively managed strategies.
Passive global equity funds also proved themselves more popular than active ones for the first time since 2015.
This story is from the January 08, 2026 edition of South Wales Evening Post.
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