A Major Margin Call
The Compound and Friends
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Bond Market Spooked by the New Policy
The UK pension industry adopted a synthetic structure which involved a derivatives overlay. The new policy they announced was very Reagan-esque, kind of like cutting taxes on everyone. And that spooked the bond market. Yields went up, bond prices collapsed. On a stress test basis, this kind of move shouldn't have happened.
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