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The Gilt-Edged Market (RLE Banking & Finance)
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This book was written at a time when the market for government stocks in London, the gilt-edged market of the title, had undergone a period of rapid innovation in the forms of its instruments - index-linked stocks, variable rate stocks, and other new types - and of methods of issue. This had been the response of a government that had needed to fund a massive public sector borrowing requirement despite its attempts to slash public expenditure. In the same period the opening of the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE), with its 20-year gilt contract, had introduced a new method for hedging risk for investment managers. This book charts and analyses these developments.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415538503
- ISBN-10: 0415538505
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: May 2012
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
- Page Count: 210
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