UK - The gilts crisis, which has left UK pension funds with rapidly escalating deficits, has been attributed to regulation and changes in how deficits are calculated, with one expert claiming funds were in effect being forced to hedge against an accounting system, rather than the market.
Recent gains in the equity markets have counted for nothing following sharp falls in real yields with the yield on the benchmark 1.25% Index-Linked Gilt 2055 falling from 0.59% to 0.48%. As many pe...
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