Graviton said ‘The stockmarket is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.’
This is true for the us markets, but the uk market has been a disaster for the last decade. The UK public are too poor to invest in shares, they would rather spend the money on a buy to let.
The boomer generation is from 1946 to 1966. Anyway, that is a lot of money which is going to be spent instead of being handed over to the state as inheritance tax. Hopefully on saga cruises and holidays.
Boomers have £5bn of wealth in housing and pensions. I am sure there will be a downturn in demand especially with Reeves trying to take it off them with her skullduggery.
The outlook is priced in, they already told us this before in January and last year. Half their business including 2,000 employees with be TUPE'd to Ageas this year, what kind of impact are you expecting from that?
"We are delivering on the commitments we made and are confident that our growth strategy, built on detailed five-year plans, will take underlying profit to at least £100.0m and leverage to below 2.0x EBITDA within that timeframe."
The current years outlook will be very bad for insurance as they have previously said. I would keep some dry powder to top up on results day if we head towards £1 again.
Saga is a 3-5 year play where it can potentially ten bag from here.