Debt management

The art of debt

Governments across the globe face huge increases in borrowing requirements, sparking concern over possible rating downgrades, while many have seen their credit default swap spreads widen dramatically. Despite this, sovereign debt management offices claim…

Revitalising the markets

Governments are facing unprecedented pressure to finance bank rescue schemes through huge debt issuance. With supply coming thick and fast, the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) has been steering a hazardous path to place its debt into the markets. Until…

Inflated expectations

It may seem counterintuitive, given these deflationary times, but inflation-linked fixed income strategies are proving a hit with investors as fiscal stimulus raises the threat that inflation will take over in the medium term. William Rhode reports

Robert Stheeman

The head of the UK's Debt Management Office, the body responsible for administering the wave of recent government issuance, tells Sarfraz Thind that the recent failed auction doesn't spell a death of demand for gilts

A quiet revolution

Governments have traditionally kept their limited use of derivatives close to their chests. But some sovereigns are now broadening their mandates to encompass a wider array of risks and they are increasingly turning to the derivatives markets. By Navroz…

Tennessee’s valley of debt

Tennessee Valley Authority’s power plant financing arrangements should be measured as debt, says the US General Accounting Office, thereby putting further pressure on its politically sensitive and federally restricted debt levels. Paul Lyon reports

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