Retail Investors Holding Up Long End Of Yield Curve Or Holding The Bag?

It is interesting to watch investing trends develop, gain momentum, mature and then sometimes take a negative turn. In one respect, thought processes on interest rates match a decided pattern that might be considered evident in a research report out today.  The Royal Bank of Scotland report observes how the retail bond investor “hasn’t blinked, yet” and this could lead to very different modeling.

If retail investors hold their longer-term government paper a bond value adjustment might not overshoot

Sustainable investing trends often have roots in institutional intellectual thought, catch fire by provoking thought and then ascend. Often times at the end of the trend are individual investors,...