GPs will be unwilling to rush to sell those investments at a loss or below their carry hurdle rate.
The six-month international interbank lending rate is currently at 5.94 percent, and the Soviet loans carry an interest rate adjusted every six months to account for changes in this rate.
Until the Great Recession, the Fed limited its purchases of Treasury paper to short-term bills that carry no interest rate risk.
As of July 1, Stafford loans, taken out by students, will carry a fixed rate of 6.8%, up from 5.3% just last year.
The bonds carry an interest rate of 6.2%, which will be paid annually, and principal on the bonds will be paid at maturity on September 26, 2015.
The company estimates that the savings from interest payments -- a big chunk of the borrowings carry floating-rate terms -- would make up for the foregone profits from the sold assets.
The bonds carry a variable interest rate that tracks six-month Euribor rates with an average additional margin of 263 basis points.
These loans will carry an annual interest rate of only 3%, and Korea First will use them to buy one-year bonds, yielding 12%, from the central bank.
Since this would have amounted to direct losses to the banks that lent the money, the difference was smoothed over by "securitizing" the new loans against US Treasury bonds, which carry a zero interest rate and are totally safe.
Loans provided by BNDES are based in the so called TJLP long-term interest rate, which currently stands at 5%, while traditional loans carry a premium over benchmark Selic rate, currently at 12.25%.
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Even when gift and estate taxes carry the same nominal tax rate, paying the gift tax works out to be cheaper than paying the estate tax.
Perkins loans carry a low, fixed interest rate of 5%, which doesn't begin to accrue until nine months after the student graduates.
An unofficial audit was carried out in 2007 by Sir Derek Wanless, who had led a review into the health service's long-term financing needs that underpinned the decision in 2002 to carry on spending at a record rate for a further five years.
The tax question is, What is a proper tax rate for the 20% carry?
Areas where LPs say they have witnessed changes in the past year include adjustments to management fees, rebates on deal-related fees and to a lesser extent reductions in the hurdle rate and changes to the carry structure.
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Quantitative easing and its low interest rate byproduct has increased the global carry-trade out of low yielding countries and into higher yielding ones.
Most forecasters expect the economy to carry on growing, but at a more moderate rate of 4-5% in 2009.
The smartphone era increases again the rate of data inflow, as consumers carry with them a streaming source of geolocated imagery and audio data.
Goldberg cites evidence from Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA, that concealed-carry permit holders actually commit crimes at a lower rate than the general population.
He agrees that, theoretically, concealed carry laws could increase the likelihood that potential victims could carry a gun, and thus reduce the homicide rate (my simple model above).
Within the Latin American forex space, the Mexican peso now looks more attractive from a carry perspective that is where low interest rate countries like Japan buy the local debt of higher interest rate countries.
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And as and when the private equity firms paid out gains from the buying and selling of businesses in their funds, those gains - called the carry - would be taxed at an incredibly low rate of capital gains tax.
These shares carry not only company risk, but also interest-rate risk.
Mr Wyplosz concludes that low rates of inflation carry a significant unemployment cost, and that the optimal rate may be higher in Europe than it is in America.
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The carry trade involves a currency play in which a lower interest rate currency is sold to purchase a currency with a higher interest rate.
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The only hope for stemming such destabilizing inflows is to reduce the returns those carry traders could expect, which is what Seoul's rate cut might accomplish.
Those who play the carry trade game look for the first signs of a long term rate rise.
One piece of evidence supporting this is the falling rate of violent crime in states permitting honest citizens to carry concealed handguns.
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