The 44-page work is a no-nonsense member of the well-known Dummies series that purports to educate the nation's public pension officials on the ABCs of sound financial management--a task that the author himself concedes is a chilling reflection of the state of public pension fund management.

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It is the unenviable task of the Debt Management Office, the agency that manages the nation's debt, to sound out investors and report back to the chancellor on whether what the FT has christened Osborne Bonds will fly.

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The management task of handling such sprawling empires at times seems superhuman.

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