Some of these funds appear to have used asset-backed securities to boost the yield.
Another 37% of the total is pooled asset-backed securities, which are usually issued by leasing companies.
The rest of his taxable holdings run the gamut of corporate, municipal, asset-backed and mortgage-backed bonds.
Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).
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That means the rules have changed significantly for stay-at-home moms, retirees and asset-rich, but income-poor women.
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Moreover, the annuity policy and the assets within the policy would be asset-protected from future creditors.
Ed Miliband has declared war on "predatory, asset-stripping" companies, in his speech to the Labour conference.
That adds to the struggle monetary policy faces in coping with asset-price booms and busts.
"We're an asset-rich company in an asset-starved world, which is why this is working, " says Feldstein.
Houston-based developer Hines has struck a deal with the asset-management division of J.
Blair Thomas, chief executive of EIG Global Energy Partners, an energy asset -management firm.
One bright spot has been asset-management stocks, and two in particular look especially interesting.
And it has been clever: Traditionally, Ford sold retail car loans into the asset-backed market.
Asset-based lending and factoring got attention when banks slashed credit lines in the 2008 financial collapse.
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Still, the asset-management firms are unlikely to have the appetite to bail out every trust loan.
The facility will buy unsecured and asset-backed three-month commerical paper directly from eligible issuers.
The Fed will buy unsecured and asset-backed three-month commerical paper directly from eligible issuers.
If the Fed announces a new asset-purchasing program, it would underpin gold prices, metals analysts said.
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This creates an asset-backed security, or ABS, which can then be traded like any other security.
One is that these returns are calculated on a time-weighted, rather than asset-weighted basis.
Their immediate dilemma is how to sustain recovery without inflating credit and asset-price bubbles.
Between them, a tougher regulator and an efficient asset-sales agency quickly brought the problem under control.
Option-writing, an activity that insures the purchaser against asset-price movements, creates a particular danger.
Then, excess demand resulted in higher inflation, huge current-account deficits and rampant asset-price inflation.
Rarely do they change their asset-allocation decisions once they have decided on their strategies in March.
The government feared the practice was leading to rampant asset-stripping and was fuelling public resentment.
He added Greenwich Capital, a bond-trading outfit, and Gartmore, an asset-management firm, the following year.
Look only at Japan for a painful reminder of the implications of a burst asset-price bubble.
That's because they exclude funds that refuse to pay large asset-based fees to the supermarkets.
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