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...“This year the enormity of gilt supply is weighing slowly on the spread with [German] Bunds,” said Mike Riddell, bond fund manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...“I think a downgrade looks completely inevitable at this point, although it sometimes takes a while for the rating agencies to act,” said Mike Riddell, a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...You handed over your own human agency....
...Taken together with the recent admission that Fed officials are beginning discussions on the scaling back $120bn monthly purchases of Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities, this shift in stance...
...issue has been seized on by those wanting to demonstrate the costs of Brexit, but the picture is more complicated than that, according to Kieran Smith, the chief executive of Driver Require, a recruitment agency...
...And ultimately, those three things - having connection and having agency and having hope - is crucial for us to be able to first imagine and then to build the society we want to live in....
...Rating agency Moody’s warned about the “deterioration” of the UK’s public finances following the Budget....
...S&P Global and Moody’s, which complete the trio of big credit rating agencies, have the UK at AA and Aa2, respectively....
...Mike Riddell, a bond fund manager at Allianz Global Investors, said Rome losing its investment-grade credit rating was “a matter of when, not if”....
...Mike Riddell, fund manager at Allianz Global Investors, said: “The borrowing figures being floated around [by the Conservatives and Labour] don’t bother me....
...“People have been saying for years Germany should be loosening the purse strings,” said Mike Riddell, a senior fund manager at Allianz Global Investors....
...More than 1,000 drugs operations use children The National Crime Agency estimates the UK currently has more than 1,000 drug dealing operations of this kind — dubbed county lines — where children are distributing...
...This article was amended to show that Mike Riddell now works at Allianz....
...“I can only think there is an investor out there with a specific need for them,” says Mike Riddell, a fund manager at Allianz Global....
...Moody’s, the credit rating agency, has warned that Brexit will be credit-negative for the EU, heightening the risk of copycat referendums and further exits across Europe....
...Agency bonds and those issued by regions add up to a further €600bn. Not every country will see the same amount of debt purchased, either....
...Michael Riddell, a fund manager at M&G Investments, said rating agencies tended to react slowly to deteriorating fundamentals, but had this time actually been quicker to recognise warning signs than many...
...But Ireland had all that as well,” says Michael Riddell, a fund manager at M&G. “Emerging markets are not safe havens – they are a risky asset class.” This has been borne out in markets recently....
...Peter Riddell, journalist. Tim Rollinson, director-general, Forestry Commission. Colin Smith, director, engineering and technology, Rolls-Royce, the engineering company....
...Writing in the Telegraph, Mary Riddell has some solace for the chancellor saying Labour hasn’t yet made a convincing case for its economic policies....
...Australia proves that Gordon Brown was right not to call early general election – Steve Richards, Independent Milibands divided over how to deal with Clegg’s Lib Dems – Mary Riddell, Telegraph Meeting proposed...
...“Many will be reabsorbed back into government departments,” said Peter Riddell of the Institute for Government....
...Moody’s, the rating agency, forecasts that local insurers are likely to respond by focusing on underwriting and “core” businesses, protecting their balance sheets and enhancing risk management in order to...
...Polman argues that an apolitical “see no evil” approach on the part of aid agencies has led to them being exploited by political regimes....
...Salmon takes the increasingly common approach of dismissing the prognostications of ratings agencies outright: The most important thing to remember here, however, is that ratings agencies don’t matter...
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