British investors fled the stock market at a record rate in 2025

Reeves Budget unleashes stock market exodus bigger than Brexit

British investors pulled a record £6.71bn from global equity markets last year, as months of pre-Budget uncertainty triggered a stock market exodus more than twice the scale seen around theRead More...

Calastone: Banner year for FTSE 100 does not stop investor exodus as UK equity fund outflows hit £54bn over a decade

Bearish investors pulled £6.7bn from open-ended equity funds last year, with the total withdrawn from UK equity funds hitting over £54bn in the past decade, according to data from funds network Calastone. Underlining the poor sentiment weighing on closed-end investment companies, where share price discounts remain prevalent, Calastone said the level of outflows from UK-based […]

Equity funds suffered record outflows in 2025, though post-budget certainty cut net selling sharply in December

2025 saw the largest ever outflows from equity funds after December delivered an unprecedented seventh consecutive month of net selling, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone, the largest global funds network. British investors withdrew a net £188m from equity funds in December taking outflows since June 2025 to a net £10.57bn in the largest and most prolonged selling spree on record. 2025 as a whole was down £6.71bn, comfortabl…

Calastone: 2025 marks worst year in over a decade for equity fund flows

After an unprecedented seventh consecutive month of net outflows in December, 2025 is officially the worst ever year for equity fund flows on Calastone’s record. The firm’s latest Fund Flow Index saw a further £188m withdrawn from equity funds in the final month of the year, bringing total net outflows for 2025 to £6.71bn. Calastone reported this was comfortably the worst year in its 11-year data history and more than double the previous record …

British investors fled the stock market at a record rate in 2025

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…