A closer look at swap spreads and their significance – past, present and future

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Clients regularly ask us why interest rates are so low and why differences in compensation between categories of fixed-income securities are so large. One example is the atypically high yield difference between interest-rate swaps and German government bonds – the ‘swap spread’. This article seeks to explain this yield difference, which has been on investors’ minds for quite some time.