Comment and opinion for retail investors in the UK
Last month I wrote that this was often the time of year for bumpy markets and I was not wrong for 2021.
Issues that are potential headwinds and which have blown up somewhat more briskly in the last few weeks include:
I have noticed today that the free access to Morningstar’s 2 page X-Ray is now no longer available and even users of the service via the II platform are only getting the one page report. I have asked II if this as a permanent change, as only recently they were promoting use of the service and to cut it back without an announcement seems churlish to me.
This is not a surprise because what was on offer for nought was enough of the very expensive professional offering for most private investors. I expected Morningstar to ‘monetise’ this in due course.