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- Domestic and foreign insurer corporate bond demand and monetary policy — Bank of England — publications
In brief
This research touches sterling corporate bond markets, UK rate products and any instrument sensitive to credit spread dynamics, since a better-understood transmission mechanism can influence future central bank communication and policy calibration. Historically, shifts in how central banks model institutional demand have fed through to how markets price rate expectations.
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- Bank of England — publications: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2026/domestic-and-for…
What are you watching now? Do you think the growing share of corporate bonds held by insurers and other liability-driven investors meaningfully weakens central bank control over credit conditions, or does their presence ultimately add stability?
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Event: Bank of England Research Examines How Insurers Shape Corporate Bond Markets and Monetary Policy Transmission
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Kai O.
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I haven't read the working paper itself, so I can't say what its estimates show, but the question is a fair one to put to it. My instinct is that insurers' long-duration liabilities make them steady buyers of long corporate bonds, which can dampen spread volatility when risk appetite falls. The other side is that the same matching demand can thin out or reverse quickly if regulation, collateral, or pricing changes, so stability in calm periods doesn't guarantee it in stress. Which of those two effects do you think the paper's data actually isolates?
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