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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK retail investors piling into gilts, says AJ Bell

      Company says fixed-income products have become much more popular

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      Gilt yields soar towards mini-Budget levels after inflation disappoints

      Despite fall to single figures, April’s consumer price inflation of 8.7% is significantly above BoE’s forecast

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Traders predict more trouble ahead for UK bond market

      Gilt yields rise after string of stronger than expected inflation data

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Competition & Markets Authority
      Five banks broke competition law over gilts, UK watchdog provisionally finds

      CMA’s initial finding shows traders exchanged sensitive information on pricing and strategies

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Flood of bond sales pushes up UK borrowing costs

      Investors point to record debt supply as gilt yields climb above those on US Treasuries

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      UK quantitative easing
      Bank of England forecasts £100bn payment from Treasury by 2033 over QE losses

      Central bank stresses figures relating to bond-buying programme are estimates

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Special Report
      FTfm: Fixed Income

      Bank collapses in Switzerland and the US have made bondholders reconsider risks to their capital and yield expectations. But the UK gilt market is returning to normal after political upheavals and green bonds are being held to higher standards

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Special ReportFTfm: Fixed Income
      UK gilt market returns to normal as ‘idiot premium’ subsides

      An end to the soaring yields and forced selling under the Truss administration should make it easier to issue new bonds

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Lex
      UK government bonds: short end offers investors a gilty pleasure Premium content

      Chances are that UK interest rates have peaked

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Gilts are becoming munis and no-one seems to have noticed

      He Figured Out This One Simple Trick… . . HMRC HATES him!

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Hunt’s record borrowing plans shrugged off by investors

      UK chancellor pencils in £241bn of gilt sales next year

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      LexUK insurance industry
      UK pensions: buy out boom brings benefits Premium content

      Jettisoning schemes is liberating for companies that have long struggled with volatile deficits

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Central bank intervention
      A blueprint for central bank intervention

      Or how to buy bonds while still tightening policy

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Putting a price on Britain’s linker addiction

      Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Fund management
      Insight Investment ditched market prices in gilts crisis

      Asset manager chose its own valuations for fraught day preceding Bank of England rescue

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Pensions industry
      UK regulators failed to spot threat from pension scheme borrowing, says Lords report

      Calls for greater oversight of LDI strategies after last year’s turmoil in gilt markets

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Bank of England
      Bank of England to set out ‘steady state’ measures for LDI market

      Financial stability chief says further steps needed to boost sector’s resilience after September liquidity crisis

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Markets InsightDuncan Weldon
      UK will have to rely more on the kindness of strangers

      With the Bank of England unwinding its gilt portfolio, the country will need more buying from foreign investors

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      Lex
      Financial trends: gilts viewed once again through a macro lens Premium content

      The UK’s creditworthiness has regained some of its old glitter

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Pensions crisis
      BT pension scheme warns it may need ‘support’ from company

      More cautious approach to liability-driven investing after Truss mini-Budget means returns may fall, MPs told

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      ‘Who is going to buy?’ UK set to unleash historic debt deluge

      Government will need to issue around £240bn in gilts a year for the next half decade to finance its spending

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      FT live news
      Live news updates from November 23: Fed officials back slower rate rises, No 10 must ‘OK’ Scotland break-up vote
    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Pensions industry
      Gilt crisis was major factor in £500bn hit to UK pension funds, MPs told

      City advisers promoting leveraged LDI strategies labelled ‘villains in the piece’

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      UK public finances
      Treasury bails out BoE for first losses on QE programme

      Central bank requires funding after raising interest rates but payments have no effect on overall public finances

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Legal & General Group PLC
      L&G defends risk management and blames mini-Budget for LDI crisis

      Insurer’s chair and chief executive tell House of Lords bond sell-off ‘caught us all by surprise’

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