Archive

  • Chart of the Week - BoE staff paper pats BoE on back, for combatting Liz Truss's 'Growth Plan'

    03 May 2024

    BoE working paper discusses Truss/Kwarteng's min-budget, and how the Old Lady of Threneedle Street defused a crisis

  • New research unpicks shortcomings in LDI industry during 2022 gilts crisis

    11 April 2024

    Researchers say Bank of England intervention "offset dysfunction" in gilts market

  • How best to describe a stuff-up? SFCR writers confront Whitehall's gilts-storm

    01 May 2023

    Remember, remember the 23rd of September - when gilt yields exploded, without a mote of gunpowder in sight. David Walker reads how UK insurers revisited the scene in their SFCRs

  • Financial markets respond positively to Truss exit

    20 October 2022

    Schroders calls PM's tenure "disastrous" as it loses £20bn in Q3 on LDI chaos

  • Chart of the week - Liz Truss really puts the 'stress' back in 'stress-test'

    14 October 2022

    UK insurers bolster Solvency II ratios against sharp moves in rates - and Whitehall