Nicholas Capello, UnsplashAndrew Hardingham explains how an interest rate swap enables Plymouth to “lock into a known, fixed rate for an agreed term, while retaining the flexibility to continue borrowing at lower, short-term rates.”
Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City, faces huge demands on its resources. A naval city with a long and illustrious history and one of the most bombed cities after Coventry during second world war, now faces the challenge of rising once more after pandemic.
This is a city with a population of over 270,000 people who live in properties of which 86% fall in bands A to C for council tax purposes, and around 80 of 326 of the local authority districts having indices linked with deprivation places.
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...William Bourne argues there is an “irreconcilable conflict” between, on one hand, the increasing popularity of passive funds and, on the other, sustainable investment.
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