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LDI: where’s the exposure?

If you answered UK life insurers, award yourself half a point

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LDI: the better mousetrap that almost broke the UK

A Q&A on what went wrong with liability-driven investing

Global Economy
The IMF’s arrears lending policy: Just Use It

The Fund already has the tools and framework it needs

Foreign exchange
Not now, renminbi!

The dollar is blowing everything to smithereens

Gilts
The reason the BoE is buying long gilts: an LDI blow-up

Pension plan plumbing problems forced the Bank’s hand

Gilts
Bank of England to buy bonds again (temporarily, natch)

Lord make me chaste, but not yet

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It’s worse than you think

Sovereign bonds
Dun dun . . . dun dun . . . dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnn!

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Pound Sterling
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Our two cents (/pence)

UK business & economy
*The IMF has entered the chat*

Larry Summers sics the Fund on the UK

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