Gilt Trip: Did UK government bonds almost blow up the financial system?
Many Happy Returns
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Leverage
equity doesn't have duration, which means that if interest rates increase, the value of equity doesn't necessarily increase or decrease. So what people adopted wasn't pure equity. It was a combination of guilt and other types of investment like fixed income stuff,. guilt, residential mortgage backsecurities in the UK., maybe even property funds.
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