Ignore inflation at your peril

Jonathan Stapleton warns schemes on the dangers posed by inflation

Jonathan Stapleton
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Lord Myners - the former City minister and fund manager has branded advice to increase scheme fixed income allocations as "nonsense" and warned the bond market is an "enormous bubble which will burst".

He believes schemes are wrong to buy bonds in the current economic climate as he thinks long-term interest rates are likely to double over the next four years, a shift which will force down bond pr...

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