Lord Myners warns bond market is 'enormous bubble which will burst'

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Lord Myners has branded advice to increase scheme fixed income allocations as "nonsense" and warned the bond market is an "enormous bubble which will burst".

In a speech to local authority funds last week, Myners - a former City minister and fund manager - said schemes are wrong to buy bonds in the current economic climate as long-term interest rates ar...

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