The yield on 30-year British government bonds, known as gilts, hit a fresh 26-year high on Friday as higher inflation expectations and worries about Donald Trump's imminent arrival in the White House prompted i
Plan of the British chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown to include in the national budget the issuance of Gilts for maturities of up to 50 years; Decision of the Dutch State Treasury Agency to appoint ABN Amro, Credit Suisse First Boston and Fortis Bank as advisers on the 30 year ...
READ MORE: Bonds under pressure, stocks fall, with eyes on UK gilts, US policy Early on Monday, 30-year gilt yields hit a new post-1998 high and sterling fell to its lowest since November 2023. Asked about the market situation, Starmer told reporters his team would be "ruthless" about...
The benchmark 10-year gilt yields have spiked by a quarter point this week alone to their highest since 2008, while the 30-year gilts hit its highest since 1998. However, a 0.6% slide in the pound supported the exporter-heavy FTSE 100, which was up 0.8% at a near four...
The plan delivered by Kwarteng quickly led to a freezing of mortgage markets, selling of gilts by pension funds and a leap in corporate borrowing costs. It also triggered alarm in foreign capitals. "Were dysfunction in this market to continue or worsen, there would be a...
Fiscal Year End 31 October Valor 2803931 Net Assets of Fund as of 02-May-2025 GBP 3’533’741’730.67 Fund Launch Date 01-Dec-2006 Base Currency GBP Benchmark Index FTSE Actuaries UK Conventional Gilts All Stocks Index Shares Outstanding as of 02-May-2025 271’398’274 ISIN...
The Fund aims to provide a return on your investment (generated through an increase in the value of the assets held by the Fund and/or income received from those assets) by tracking closely the performance of the FTSE Actuaries UK Index Linked Gilts Over 5 Years Index, the Fund’s benchma...
back when everyone holding gilts was clamoring for yields to go negative because these holders would benefit from falling yields because bond prices rise when yields fall, and that path into the negative would be the necessary and logica...
UK gilt yields have soared this year (Source: CNBC) Gilts are financial instruments the UK government issues to borrow money from investors to pay for goods and services that it cannot cover with tax revenue. Bond prices and yields move inversely due to the return – the coupon – investors...
One factor helping pension funds keep their cool relates to the broader macroeconomic environment, particularly the fact that yields were moving higher in-step with a global trend as investors price in a slower pace of interest rate cuts this year. Gilts have moved sharply on specific data releas...