Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.
Demand for floating rate bonds soars
Rising inflation fears and plunging corporate default rates are fuelling a surge into floating rate loan funds. US investors have pumped $17.5bn into mutual funds investing in corporate loans so far this year, taking assets to $71bn, well above the pre-crisis peak of $47bn and in Europe Neuberger Berman listed its Global Floating Rate Income Fund on the London market having raised $507m, more than twice its initial target and making it the second largest non-Russian IPO in UK this year Read more

1Bernanke weighs in on robot wars; brings Keynes for backup
2Pump up, debase
3Further reading
4The risk of a Japanese VaR shock
5Collateral crunch-counting gets sophisticated
Show more6In which the FTSE puts the crisis behind it
7A Kazakh muddle
8Apple Operations International, facts (?) du jour
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