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...“Things don’t always turn out the way that you want....
...Because, although the debt management offices of most major developed economies don’t differ much in overarching goals, the outcomes can vary quite a bit....
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...In price terms, the 10-year linker fell 5.5 per cent; developed world sovereign bonds are not supposed to move like that (the 30-year linker was down 16 per cent on the day)....
...In the UK, meanwhile, so-called “linker” funds had attracted almost half a billion pounds of additional net assets through 2021, reckons Morningstar....
...Scene 4: The bank starts buying linkers, too, and the market calms for a day — but in a cliffhanger, Bailey makes the comments quoted above....
...Linkers did well during the tech crash of 2001-02 and the euro crisis of 2011, for example. But they don’t always do well when equities sell off....
...The bank bought another £4.7bn in gilts yesterday, most of them linkers, and it has one more day of buying left (it says)....
...“Clients don’t like the uncertainty — they say ‘you take the risk and you can charge us for it’,” said a gilt trader at one big investment bank....
...So if you want to add some claws to your portfolio, tread carefully, and don’t add too many....
...I don’t move in those circles....
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