Given that interest rates are virtually zero and likely to go negative in the next 6 months, as warned by the Bank of England, many people ask us why they have cash funds in their pensions or investment portfolio. The argument being that after charges, the value of your cash funds may even go down and certainly with inflation, the value is eroded.
There are two prime reasons why we recommend many clients hold cash in portfolios despite this:
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