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Inflation risk

The risk that fixed payments lose value faster than was assumed at purchase.

How to read the number

For a fixed-coupon bond this is the principal long-horizon risk: the nominal amount returns in full, the purchasing power does not.

When the metric lies

The risk is invisible in a performance report: a position can show a gain in roubles and lose in real terms at the same time, and the second half is displayed nowhere.

Also known as: purchasing power risk

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