Specialising in Bitcoin, Gold and Digital Assets

ByteTree Asset Management

Investment Manager specialising in bitcoin, gold and digital assets

CEO, ByteTree Asset Management

Cross Asset Strategy

United states & United kingdom / Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>In theory, government bonds are risk-free because they pay an income guaranteed by the government, but that doesn’t mean that prices can’t be volatile, as markets showed last year.</li><li>To demonstrate this, I show the synthetic prices of UK Government bonds, known as Gilts, since 1990.</li><li>The 2-year bond is relatively stable, with low “duration”, while the 30-year bond is a beast, with high duration. </li></ul>

In theory, government bonds are risk-free because they pay an income guaranteed by the government, but that doesn’t mean that prices can’t be volatile, as markets showed last year.To demonstrate this, I show the synthetic prices of UK Government bonds, known as Gilts, since 1990.The 2-year bond is relatively stable, with low “duration”, while the 30-year bond is a beast, with high duration. 

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