The reason to invest

This is a UK focused article, so therefore we've used the UK FTSE All-Share Stock Market Index, a smart investment portfolio would be globally diversified, so you would avoid a concentrated 'home bias'.

50 years of EXcuses, why not to invest

2017 – Trump Inauguration

2016 – Brexit Vote

2015 – Chinese stock market turbulence

2014 – Fighting in Ukraine and Crimea. Fall in Crude Oil price. Scottish UK referendum.

2013 – US Senate Expenses Scandal. Boston Marathon Bombing

2012 – Greek Government Debt Crisis.

2011 – Tsunami in Japan, London Riots

2010 – BP Oil Spill, Coalition Government / UK Spending Cuts

2009 – Collapse of UK Banks

2008 – Global Financial Crisis (The Great Sale)

2007 – Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister, SNP becomes largest political party in Scotland

2006 – Sago Mine Disaster. Mumbai Train Bombings

2005 – London Bombings, Hurricane Katrina

2004 – Madrid Train Bombings, Decline of the Dollar

2003 – UK Begins Iraq Military Campaign

2002 – US Invades Afghanistan

2001 – 9/11 (World Trade Centre)

2000 - .COM Bubble Bursts

1999 – Yugoslavia Conflict, US Presidential Impeachment

1998 – Russian Currency Devaluation

1997 – Asia Financial Crisis

1996 – US and Russian Troops Enter Bosnia

1995 – S&P500 All-Time High

1994 – Mexican Peso Devaluation

1993 – Separation of Czechoslovakia

1992 – Rising Interest Rates

1991 – UK Recession

1990 – Gulf War

1989 – Tokyo Stock Market Crash

1988 – US Savings and Loan Crisis

1987 – Black Monday

1986 – Chernobyl Disaster

1985 – UK Riots (Brixton and Broadwater)

1984 – Miner’s Strike

1983 – Global Market Highs

1982 – Falklands War, Recession, 3 million unemployed

1981 – Brixton Riots

1980 -  Iraq War, High Inflation

1979 – Devolution of Scotland and Wales

1978 – Winter of Discontent (Public Centre Strikes)

1977 – Rising Inflation

1976 – UK Sterling Crisis. High Inflation and unemployment

1975 – Thatcher becomes Leader of the conservative party. EEC Referendum

1974 – State of Emergency Announced in Northern Ireland

1973 – Stock Market Falls 45%, British Shares fall £4billion in One Day

1972 – Watergate Scandal, Munich Massacre

1971 – Indo-Pakistan War

1970 – US Invade Cambodia

1969 – Dow Jones declines 18%

1968 – Robert F kennedy Assassination

1967 – Arab-Israeli War

 

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