The financial crisis is resulting in the authorities, the public, and investment managers seeing things they did not expect to see. Today’s headline RPI level of 5.5% is a record 5% above the Bank of England base rate of 0.5%,…
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Inflation Hedging for Long-Term Investors – the most important academic paper you will read this year
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Posted February 1st, 2011
You would have to be living under a rock to not notice the increasing number of articles dedicated to the topic of inflation. The increase in inflationary articles has almost been as dramatic as the increase in inflation itself. Even…
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After December’s big sell-off in US Treasuries on the back of fears about the US’s creditworthiness, and the surprise at yesterday’s record monthly budget deficit in the UK, there’s been a lot of talk about a bond market “buyers’ strike”. …
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In the recent emergency UK budget it was announced that public sector indexation would change from RPI to CPI from April 2011. Now, the government is proposing moving private sector schemes and the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) indexation to CPI…
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CPI inflation in the UK hit 3% in December. Anything higher than this and the Bank’s Governor Mervyn King will have to write a letter to Gordon Brown explaining why inflation is so high. It probably won’t read “Dear Gordon,…
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Looking at the broad categories of the UK’s RPI numbers here’s a brief breakdown of where the inflationary – and indeed deflationary – pressures are occuring. The most recent inflation number we have is for November. The headline RPI was…
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