UK - The Boots pension fund has lowered its allocation to fixed rate bonds to increase its inflation linked assets by £200m, bringing the asset class up to 33% of scheme assets.
Boots achieved the increase via 15 year inflation linked swaps with Barclays Capital and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Boots - which controversially jettisoned its equities holdings - has devis...
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