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What could higher interest rates mean for your clients?

  • Understand why central banks cut or raise interest rates.
  • Learn about the impact this could have on asset prices.
  • Understand how the pandemic has altered the way markets may view higher interest rates.
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Approx.30min

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David Thorpe is special projects editor at FTAdviser

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CPD
Approx.30min

Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. What is the current UK base rate, as set by the Bank of England?

  2. Why does Hugh Gimber think households are better able to cope with higher interest rates this time compared with the past?

  3. What are the three factors which Toogood says kept interest rates low prior to the pandemic and will continue to keep them low?

  4. When did the stamp duty holiday come to an end in the UK?

  5. What is the velocity of money?

  6. What is the output gap?

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  • Understand why central banks cut or raise interest rates.
  • Learn about the impact this could have on asset prices.
  • Understand how the pandemic has altered the way markets may view higher interest rates.

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