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Premium Bonds is a lottery bond scheme organised by the United Kingdom government since 1956. At present it is managed by the government's National Savings and Investments agency. The principle behind Premium Bonds is that rather than the stake being gambled, as in a usual lottery , it is the interest on the bonds that is distributed by a lottery.
National Savings and Investments (NS&I), formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is both a non-ministerial government department [2] and an executive agency of HM Treasury. [3]
Index-linked Savings Certificates are British inflation linked bonds from National Savings and Investments, the state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. The bond terms are typically 2, 3 or 5 years. The returns are linked to Retail Price Index (RPI) with a tiny added interest rate on top. The Bonds can no only be cashed in at maturity.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines "premium bond" in non-specific terms as "a bond earning no interest but eligible for lotteries", and then offers the following pre-1956 quotations: 1820: The Times 13 Sept. 3/1 "The premium bonds will be delivered with the state bond and dividend warrant on the 1st February, 1821."
The primary market plays the crucial function of facilitating capital formation within the economy. The securities issued at the primary market can be issued in face value, premium value, or at par value. Primary markets create long-term instruments through which corporate entities raise funds from the capital market. [3]
The loanable funds doctrine was formulated in the 1930s by British economist Dennis Robertson [1] and Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin. [2] However, Ohlin attributed its origin to Swedish economist Knut Wicksell [3] and the Stockholm school, which included economists Erik Lindahl and Gunnar Myrdal.
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