Well I wish I had known more about asset allocation 12 years ago, but I didn’t and I didn’t allocate any of my portfolio to gilts. Just equities and cash. Now I can see the important role gilts play after reading Tim Hale and Bernstein, but I still can’t bring myself to inve...
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Over the years, I had several grim meetings with management at the now defunct Uniq dairy food company. We should have been talking about cream cakes. Instead, most of the meetings seemed to be about its huge, badly underfunded pension fund. Pension fund concerns have soured many a company ...
The only thing that stops the £ from returning to source is when we the public save some of our income as cash ( The government budget deficit ) or in Gilts, gilt edge savings certificates ( The national debt ). Hard working Households want to save, Hard working businesses want to sav...
The yields on longer dated gilts initially fell (prices rose) following the announcement, halting the sell-off seen in recent weeks. This sell-off has driven fixed-mortgage rates back to levels last seen during the “mini Budget” crisis of the autumn. ...
The little boars clearly had the advantage over the gilts, but size was a determining factor as well. "Them that had, got, and them that hadn't, got none." Such are porcine ethics. Such selfish brutishness is totally unwelcome among humans, of course. But it is the order of the day...