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Ruffer serves individuals and families, institutions, charities and financial planners, in the UK and internationally.
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We manage a range of core funds, and an investment trust. They all follow the same Ruffer investment approach.
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Falling profits, a re-energised workforce calling for its rights, a shortage of prosperity to start paying down debts – it all adds up, in our view, to a re-run of Britain and much of Europe in the 1970s.
Jonathan Ruffer, Chairman
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I remember my father reporting a note with 11 zeros was worth roughly one cabbage.
Luka Gakic, Investment Director, on hyperinflation
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If you get money, hang on to it or safely invest. That line about a fool and his money are soon parted is true.
Annie Nightingale, BBC Radio 1’s longest-serving DJ, Interviewed in The Daily Telegraph
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For investors, natural capital is no longer purely an environmental concern. It is also a financial one, that should not be ignored.
Alexia Palacios, Analyst, Responsible Investment
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recent articles
5 August 2020
Would a stock, by any other name, rise just as high?
Traditional finance theory tells us that markets are rational. Investors incorporate all public and private information when making their investment decisions. This school of thought is grappling with the field of behavioural finance, which asserts that human psychology and biases also act in an irrational way to influence these same investment decisions.
Oliver Shale
8 mins | Market views
6 August 2020
The Barber Boom
The story of an economic gear shift which sent post-war Britain careering around country lanes, before skidding on an oil slick and being sent ditchward. There it was left, engine smoking, entangled in the brambles of inflation. It wasn’t until 1980 that road-side recovery eventually arrived in the shape of Paul Volcker and his inflation curbing toolkit.
Rory McIvor
8 mins | Market views
6 July 2020
Ruffer Radio: Cold War II
July 2020: Alexander Chartres, Investment Director and resident geopolitics specialist, explores the shifting sands of world order. He discusses the deteriorating relationship between the US and China and considers the implications of a new world disorder – on companies, portfolios and our everyday lives.
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Alexander Chartres
32 mins | Ruffer Radio
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