Pfandbrief: After 200 years, it’s come to this

The inclusion of the Pfandbrief in the German government’s banking guarantee marks a turning point – not just in the financial downturn but in the product’s entire history. Jethro Wookey reports.

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The sincerest form of flattery

IT IS COMMONLY impressed on investors that in more than 200 years of existence, the German Pfandbrief, the benchmark of the modern covered bond world, has never experienced a single case of default. This is not just a fact that is trotted out for marketing purposes in the same way that, say, a hedge fund might boast that none of its investments had lost money.

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