Q3 2023 repo update

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The peak or close-to-peak rate environment prevailed across Europe and the US during the third quarter as inflationary fears receded.

Pensions Watch 27

2023 sees the publication of yet another highly informative edition of The DC Future Book, the ninth in the series.

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Inflation Quarterly Monitor

LDI Quarterly

A snapshot of the UK inflation market covering the three months to 31 August 2023.

Pensions Watch 26

We ask whether an alternative direction of travel for well-funded UK corporate DB schemes could realistically reverse a deeply entrenched de risking mindset and the notion of a swift transition to buyout being the only end game in town.

LDI Survey – Q2 2023

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We poll investment bank trading desks on the volumes of quarterly hedging transactions. Investors digested the previous quarter’s banking crisis and the impact of monetary policy on growth prospects, resulting in a retrenchment in interest rate hedging activity.

Q2 2023 repo update

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Volumes of trade activity remained below average in the second quarter of 2023 partly as a consequence of the evolving regulatory framework for UK pension funds.

Inflation Quarterly Monitor

LDI Quarterly

A snapshot of the UK inflation market covering the three months to 31 May 2023.

LDI Survey – Q1 2023

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Throughout the first quarter of 2023, central banks maintained their monetary tightening paths, albeit with rhetoric indicating that the peak is soon to be reached.

Pensions Watch 25

The long-running active-passive fund management debate needs to focus on net value added and how increasingly important environmental, social and governance risk factors are factored into each methodology.