Derivatives market: LDI drives US funds to long-dated swaps

Vincenzo Pelosi explains why pension funds are catching the swaps bug.

A version of this article first appeared in Total Derivatives.

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Until recently the three letters LDI meant absolutely nothing to US pension funds. But that could be about to change.

LDI, or liability-driven investment, has become an obsession for those involved in interest rate markets, and is largely responsible for the dramatic reshaping of the term structure of rates in the long end of both the UK and eurozone curves.

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