EUROPE - The low levels of bond yields is due in part to increasing demand by institutional investors for long-term bonds, the vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB) has claimed.
“Ageing populations and increasing private provisioning of pensions in many euro area countries, as well as accounting changes and balance sheet repair, have forced financial institutions to resort...
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