The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has released the Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) for 2015-2018. This is the fifth time the MTDS has been published. The principal changes since the last issue of the MTDS centre on the ratio of debt to GDP. The current objective is to reduce it to below 60% by year-end 2018, and the long-term objective is to maintain a maximum debt-to-GDP ratio of 45%. The targeted average time to maturity has been increased to a minimum of five years, and the ratio of Treasury redemptions to GDP in any calendar year may not exceed 15%. The guidelines for Treasury loan portfolio structure have been tightened to 70-90% for nominal debt and 15-30% for indexed debt.
GDM Strategy.pdf