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Inflation protection pension investment options?

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  • Thrugelmir
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    michaels wrote: »
    Nope, by my reckoning if Lehmans knew what they were doing then their difficulties must not have been predicable as otherwise they would obviously taken steps to avoid it.

    The Credit Agencies and AIG in the USA got it hopelessly wrong. That's why it became a house built of cards.
  • michaels
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    The Credit Agencies and AIG in the USA got it hopelessly wrong. That's why it became a house built of cards.
    The credit agencies were 'comflicted', not sure what aig's excuse was?
    I think....
  • Thrugelmir
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    AIG sold insurance to financial institutions to cover their CDO's. No attemot to hedge or reinsure. Thought too big to fail as well.
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