Once bitten, twice shy: UK traders wary of inflation reform

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UK inflation traders have heard this story before. With reforms to the leading measure of inflation on the agenda for the second time in a decade, traders are cautiously pricing in only a one-third chance that the proposed fixes will come to fruition.

Their caution is understandable: any change to the retail prices index, or RPI, could leave investors and pensioners out of pocket. A fix for RPI would, in all likelihood, entail lowering the index, which would affect the value of £700 billion (

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