Sec lending: a double-edged sword

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While volatile trading conditions have generated money-making opportunities for pension funds in securities lending programmes, Rachel Alembakis discovers the cash reinvestment component of these programmes could be putting funds at risk

Although many pension funds have been insulated from direct fallout from the sub-prime asset-backed securities crisis by virtue of not being invested in such paper, it does not mean they have been ...

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