What could be safer than bricks and mortar? Property funds are easy to sell, or buy (without advice, of course) from a website near you. They own, not houses, but offices, shopping centres (refuse to call them malls), industrial estates and the like but the principle is the same. The principle, in reality, being that they’re only as good as the tenants you can find for them; and, if you want to cash in, you need to find someone to buy your retail park. As that’s most likely to have to be another property fund, the dominos could keep on tumbling.
“Platforms call for UK government to resist launching ‘retrograde’ British ISAs”
There is a school of thought which might say that, should you wish to revive and encourage investment in the UK Stockmarket, a starting point might be the reversal of Brexit.