Bear is having a moan about the growing imbalance between big and small businesses.
Even though 99% of all UK companies (by number) are classified as micro or small, it seems that strategic and policy decisions are designed to favour larger organisations.
Perfectly well-run smaller businesses (and funds) are being overlooked, abandoned, or swallowed up, in pursuit of shareholders’ ever-increasing demand for ‘Bigness’.
When it comes to large businesses in a global context though, the UK is way down the pecking order. Our number 1 company, Shell, is only ranked 18th in the Fortune Global 500.
Thankfully, a stronger pound recently has prevented even more (property) companies from being taken over by the Americans … at least for now.