Liability-driven foolishness

19 Jan 2006 By Edward Hadas

The yield on UK 50year inflationlinked bonds has halved in four months, to a tiny 0.5%. Yet buyers are screaming for more. Why the irrational frenzy? Because pension funds want to eliminate inflation risk when they would do better to manage it.

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