Berlin to launch bond fund for retail clients

Article reports that thee German government plans to take advantage of private investors’ appetite for secure, state-backed investments by launching a bond fund for retail clients based on the nation’s cast-iron debt. Report of an interview with Carl Heinz Daube, co-head of the Deutsche Finanzagentur, the agency in charge of Berlin’s bond issuance.

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