Indexing clusters investment assets in securities which represent past success, are widely owned, and often fully valued.
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They are counted as part of banks' capital, and prudential regulations often require pension funds to hold a minimum share of their assets in government securities.
Kalamazoo has a 14% capital ratio and 39% of its assets in cash and securities.
These factors make fixed maturity securities and ideal choice for insurance companies, which typically invest 50-70% of their total invested assets in fixed maturity securities.
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Powershares Build America Bond Porfolio ETF ( BAB) normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in taxable municipal securities eligible to participate in the Build America Bond program created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or other legislation providing for the issuance of taxable municipal securities on which the issuer receives federal support of the interest paid.
Citadel traditionally keeps more than a third of its assets in cash or liquid securities, allowing it to pounce when opportunities arise.
It could be a very heavily regulated private insurer (or consortium of insurers) whose assets were invested in safe securities and dedicated to resolving quickly any financial problems.
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By investing virtually all of their assets in mortgage-backed securities backed by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae) the Agency Mortgage REITs are able to completely deflect credit risk.
Therefore, when the Fed offsets an increase in one of its assets--loans--with a decrease in another of its assets--Treasury securities--there is no net effect on bank reserves.
The wild card, though, are the solar panels, i.e. the assets in the asset-backed securities, as some solar panel makers go bankrupt and others teeter on the edge.
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The fund's target is to have 51% of its portfolio in alternative assets such as private equity, real estate and infrastructure and the rest in public securities, according to CIC officials.
Of particular concern to some is his attitude towards bubbles in the price of assets, such as securities and housing.
And he did it by brilliantly executing thousands of complicated trades in the very assets that were tarred as toxic in the 2008 financial crisis: subprime mortgage-backed securities.
The Fed adds Treasuries and Agency mortgage-backed securities to its assets and pays, in effect, by crediting the reserve accounts of the banking system.
Indeed, the Fed has spent those years buying up residential-mortgage backed securities in their attempt to take toxic assets out of the market and push down mortgage rates.
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Perhaps the most striking characteristics of today's agreement - which amends a draft first published in 2010 - is that banks will be allowed to include corporate bonds, some shares and high-quality residential mortgage backed securities in their permitted stocks of liquid assets.
In some cases downgrades of assets that back CDOs have gutted the securities' value.
The uncertainty surrounding the true value of mortgage securities, derivatives and other toxic assets is stoking panic in the financial markets.
If the Fed had not aggressively cut rates, the result would have been both higher interest rates on Treasury securities and a substantial increase in credit risk on other assets.
The basic premise of mutual funds is straightforward: Investors pool their money, and the fund invests in stocks, bonds, government securities or a combination of such assets.
For instance, in 2006 and 2007, she was outspoken in warning investors of the dangers involved with mortgage-based securities, especially in the subprime space, and other structured assets.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has targeted Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, in a new probe that questions the validity of potentially thousands of mortgage securities and their associated foreclosures, two people familiar with the matter said.
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The company caters to fund managers and institutional investors trading in illiquid assets like private company stock, bankruptcy claims, loans, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.
The bank said there were slight improvements in business and consumer loans this quarter, and that Treasury and securities services assets increased by 8% from the year before.
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You can also opt for gold-backed securities like the SPDR Gold Shares ETF ( GLD), in which assets are backed by physical gold held in trust for shareholders.
In securities filings AES says it has done nothing wrong but adds that its assets in the country could be seized if it loses the appeal process and does not pay.
In QE1, the Fed purchased non-traditional assets for its portfolio, including mortgage backed securities (MBS) and derivatives.
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"Kuroda made good on his promise of boosting monetary easing in terms of both volume and types of assets that the bank purchases, " said Junko Nishioka, chief Japan economist at RBS Securities in Tokyo.
Some of the soured assets Beal purchased at fire-sale prices were residential mortgage-backed securities that were sold in deals in which banks made representations and warranties about loan quality and promised to repurchase those loans if the representations were no good.
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We still do not know how much of this money was actually transferred from the six countries under study (since the Nazis were very active in looting the assets they could find, and especially wanted to lay their hands on foreign securities).
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