UK - Schroder's chief economist Keith Wade has predicted that the movement towards higher bond allocations will leave the State with a massive bill, in order to make up shortfalls caused by lower returns from fixed income investment.
Wade argues that whilst the fixed income shift will make pension funds safer, it will also make funding them more expensive - a direct result of the asset classes lower forecast returns. Additional...
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