In practice, most factors, like Liquid, push risk back to their customers.

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Savings funds have a rising appetite for less liquid, higher-risk assets such as private equity and property.

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Importantly, these bets provide a liquid market for credit risk, which lowers the cost of hedging for those with primary exposure, and provides the market with better information about whether Greece or General Electric is a good credit risk.

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