Equity Pullback Drives Insurer Hedge Change
Fears of a retracement in U.S. equities are being exacerbated by expected month-end rebalancing flows by pension funds into bonds that is in turn forcing insurance companies hedging variable annuity exposure to shorten maturities on variance swaps and out-of-the-money puts to avoid onerous premiums.
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