UK/EUROPE - Unsurprisingly, for the third straight year in a row, fixed income securities proved to be a better investment than shares, according to the Barclays Equity Gilt Study.
The 2003 edition illustrates last year’s disastrous performance of equities, which delivered a negative real total return of 24.5%. In contrast, gilts posted a real return of 6.7%, corporate bonds ...
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