Europe: Bond buyers brace for eurozone debt restructuring

Not if, but when; Debt burden numbers don’t lie

A full-scale European sovereign debt restructuring is nigh-on inevitable, say leading bond buyers. Speaking at Euromoney’s annual Bond Investors Congress in London, a series of international investors argued that it was now not a question of “if” but “when” and “how”.

“It’s coming,” said Louis Gargour, chief ­investment officer at London-based hedge fund LNG Capital. Speaking before a late-March meeting of eurozone leaders tasked with finding a permanent solution to the crisis, Gargour said that policymakers “will come up with too little, too late”.

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