The withdrawal of the home crowd puts UK companies at the mercy of opportunistic hedge funds when they need to raise cash. The shift in ownership has also coincided with a drop in London capital raising - annually worth 2% of the FTSE 100 market capitalization from 1990 to 2005, but only worth 0.9% from 2006 to 2022.
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There’s a reason why UK stocks need UK owners
The central question is whether corporations’ reluctance to raise money and invest is merely correlated with or is actually caused by withering domestic ownership.
