Interview by Jasmine Birtles

NOBODY should be surprised if inflation becomes higher than ever due to the sheer amount of debt the world is in.

That is the view of Tim Price, investment manager at Price Value Partners, who says now is the time to invest in things that are “independent, scarce and have permanent value”.

“The Covid years have shone a light that the 2008 crash was just the appetiser, leading up to the main event,” he said. “It feels like we are that much closer now to some kind of tipping point and that could include a disorderly rise in interest rates, in bond yields, a disorderly breakdown in valuations of currencies. There are all sorts of problems potentially lying ahead, which makes it more urgent for people to protect what they’ve got.

“Nobody should be surprised if the inflation rate is way higher in the future than it has been in the recent past and stays there for some period of time – until we have some sort of crash.”

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