Gilt investors have had their cake and eaten it

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Gilt yields are low and prices are high, warns John Redwood. Owners of government bonds should be wary.

Believers in gilts as a natural asset for pension funds have had a great run. In recent years gilts have proved less volatile than shares, as forecast. More unusually, they have delivered better re...

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