{"id":54645,"date":"2016-10-03T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54645"},"modified":"2016-10-03T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:22:55","slug":"are-sovereign-bonds-really-risk-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2016\/are-sovereign-bonds-really-risk-free.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Sovereign Bonds Really Risk-Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) Are Sovereign Bonds Really Risk-Free?The concept of a \u201crisk free rate of return\u201d has long been a staple of finance theory and investment practice. Since sovereign governments have abrogated the powers to tax and print money, it has been reasoned that their risk of default \u2013 at least among the governments of major, developed-market economies \u2013 has been zero. Thus, the \u201crisk free rate\u201d for any given maturity (overnight, three-month, thirty-year, etc.) has been the rate paid by government notes, bills, and bonds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyalts.com\/are-sovereign-bonds-really-risk-free\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) Are Sovereign Bonds Really Risk-Free?The concept of a \u201crisk free rate of return\u201d has long been a staple of finance theory and investment practice. Since sovereign governments have abrogated the powers to tax and print money, it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54646,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54645\/revisions\/54646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}