Why is the bond market so powerful?
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Share prices taking a prolonged tumble is one thing but if bonds take a hammering, the financial world starts to really the notice.
A textbook example occurred a few weeks ago when in the aftermath of Donald Trump's introduction of US tariffs, stock markets took a dive and the President refused to budge. But when bond market ructions started to get investors and even central bankers worried, Trump appeared to take heed and introduced his 90 day pause.
On this podcast episode, Georgie Frost, Tanya Jefferies and Simon Lambert discuss government bonds, the basics of how they work, why they matter and what impact they have on ordinary investors and our finances.
Plus, the state pension top-up mess that refuses to go away, how to find the best Sipp to invest for retirement, and is a care annuity the answer to our care costs problems or just a treatment for the symptoms?
And finally, there's been a mass stampede to cash Isas, what's going on - and is the tax-free saving allowance still likely to get chopped.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. I'm Georgie Frost and joining me |
| 0:07.8 | and Simon Lambert today is Tanya Jeffries. And coming up, bonds, government bonds. We take a closer |
| 0:15.3 | look at how the market works, why they matter, why they were credited with getting Trump to back down on tariffs. |
| 0:22.4 | Also today, frustrated retirees continue to attack terrible pension top-up service. |
| 0:28.3 | Tanya looks at whether a special annuity is the answer to paying for care, plus how to choose |
| 0:32.9 | the right sip for you and the great cash icer run. Don't forget, you can stay up to date with the latest |
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| 1:15.3 | Investment involves risk. But first, I used to think that if there was reincarnation, |
| 1:20.8 | I wanted to come back as the president or the Pope or as a 400 baseball hitter. But now, |
| 1:26.7 | I would like to come back as the bond market. |
| 1:29.6 | You can intimidate everybody. The famous words of James Carville, I didn't put on the accent, |
| 1:34.4 | Bill Clinton's chief strategist. So global government bond markets are vast. They affect everyone |
| 1:39.7 | who pays tax, saves into a pension or invests for the future. They can also be an early warning |
| 1:44.7 | indicator for the economic outlook, both at home and abroad. So it's time, we got a little more |
| 1:50.8 | acquainted with them, don't you think? Tanya, Simon, welcome. Simon, government bonds. Why are we |
| 1:58.4 | talking about them? Who buys them? What are they? Government bonds are, |
| 2:03.4 | as you just mentioned, probably the most important asset on the planet. And this is because |
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