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    Britain’s wealth boom ends as interest rates surge: Report

    According to the report by the Resolution Foundation, a thinktank, and Abrdn, the asset manager, the recession was due to a drop in house prices and pension pots.
    News DeskBy News DeskOctober 30, 2023
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    United Kingdom: A new report has stated that the recent rise in interest rates has led to the end of Britain’s wealth boom and caused total household wealth to plunge by a quarter since the COVID-19 pandemic.

    According to the report by the Resolution Foundation and the asset manager Abrdn, the recession was due to a drop in house prices and pension pots, which account for about $4.85 out of every $6.06 of total wealth.

    The analysis noted that while total household wealth was worth 840 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, it had dropped to 630 percent of GDP in 2023.

    Resolution Foundation and Abrdn Report on Britain
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    “Interest-rate rises have ended Britain’s wealth boom and caused total household wealth to plummet since the pandemic,” Mr. Ian Mulheirn, a research associate at the Resolution Foundation, commented.

    The Bank of England is due to announce its next interest rate decision in the coming days. While policymakers are most likely to hold the base rate at 5.25 percent, the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates suggests Britain’s household wealth could continue to erode.

    According to the analysis by the Resolution Foundation, the impact was likely to be uneven and would vary across ages and regions. For example, a fall in total wealth may benefit younger people who are able to buy homes at a cheaper price and who will get a better rate of return on bonds bought today than a few years ago. But falling house prices may adversely affect people who already own a home in cheaper areas such as Scotland, Wales, and the north of England.

    Resolution Foundation and Abrdn Report on Britain
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    Mr. Mulheirn remarked that regional disparities were already apparent. According to the researcher, the impact of this fall has not been spread evenly across the country, with less-wealthy areas like Scotland, Wales, and the north of England seeing the biggest wealth falls and high-house-priced areas like the south and east of England seeing the lowest.

    “While the situation may change in the future, these regional disparities again highlight the need for a range of reforms to insulate households against wealth volatility that transfers resources between generations based on luck. Fairer and more effective taxation of wealth is a critical part of that agenda, with Britain’s biggest wealth tax—the council tax—in particular in need of reform to make it more fairly targeted and less regressive,” Mr. Mulheirn added.

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