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...Fidelity includes Royal London Short Duration Global Index Linked Fund M Inc in its “Select 50” list of recommended investments, saying: “The loans are made over short periods (under five years usually)...
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...Policymakers can fund debt relief, and can progress frameworks that would allow quick responses to failing banks....
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