It’s worth noting that, unlike longer-term UK government debt securities or ‘gilts’, UK Treasury bills don’t pay regular coupons (interest payments). Instead, you purchase the bills at a price that is less than their maturity value and then receive the full maturity value when they matu...
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The transaction timeline for many UK DB pension schemes targeting a bulk purchase annuity has accelerated rapidly over the last few years, mainly as a result of the gilts crisis in 2022. What was once an aspiration for many schemes to transact with an insurer has now become a...
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The questionnaire included the following main subjects: (1) contact with visitors and non-porcine species on farms, (2) shared staff and equipment, (3) contact with trucks, (4) purchase of gilts, and (5) delivery of pigs for transport. Data handling Both questionnaire surveys were created ...
Yet those are the explanations used to explain the success of the US and Australia – even though Canada’s performance is only fair to middling. What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped...
For defined contribution or money purchase scheme members, the vital thing is to avoid fixed-interest bonds which currently yield very little and will inflict big capital losses in a more inflationary environment. The longer the duration, the greater the potential for capital loss. Index-linked gi...
A further benefit of the ITs vs OEICS for bond funds is (platform dependent) generally lower platform charges AND for offshore ITs no stamp duty on purchase. Whether to add another column for onshore/offshore depends on the answer to the question that has not been answered yet. Complicated...
The PEPP is a temporary asset purchase programme of private and public sector securities. The Governing Council decided to increase the initial €750 billion envelope for the PEPP by €600 billion on 4 June 2020 and by €500 billion on 10 December, for a new total of €1,850 billion. All...
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