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While UBS says U.K. and Swedish corporate credit quality have been improving for twelve months now, the picture is very different in Spain as Barclays attested late last month.
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Then as you age, migrate your assets out of stocks and into funds that own high-quality corporate bonds and government-issued Treasuries.
Gary Jenkins of Deutsche Bank points out that, historically, investors have been overpaid for the default risk on high-quality corporate bonds.
First is pension liabilities: under the new rules, a company's future obligations will be calculated using the yield on high-quality corporate bonds.
Joslin is tapping on the brakes, going for a riskless deflation hedge in the form of U.S. Treasury securities and high-quality corporate bonds.
The culprit is extremely low interest rates on high-quality corporate bonds, which play a critical role in assumptions for calculating pension plan obligations.
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In order of popularity, respondents said they owned high-quality corporate, high-yield, international (including emerging market), Treasury (including TIPS) and municipal bonds and bond funds.
After the crash, invest in 30-year Treasuries and quality corporate bonds.
Investors have been chasing after high-quality corporate bonds despite low yields.
Even good-quality corporate bonds are offering meager interest rates these days.
Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.
M-5's first-stage engine, had their minds on corporate strategy rather than quality control.
Iridium went down beset by complaints over service quality, corporate infighting among Iridium's many investors and an inability to actually deliver its bulky handsets to paying customers.
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Actually, an exasperated white-color guy like Dilbert would appreciate McMeel's corporate zeal and dedication to quality nearly 2, 000 of Adams' strips are immaculately reproduced here, with running commentary from Adams himself.
According to Morgan Stanley, high-quality investment-grade corporate bonds are now at their cheapest since 1925.
In practice, plans use a rate based on high-quality long-term corporate bond yields, currently just above 6%.
"Right now too many corporate overheads are chasing too few quality opportunities, " says Robin West, chairman, Petroleum Finance Co.
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.
Since the cut, according to Martin Fridson of Merrill Lynch, the corporate-bond market has reopened for better-quality borrowers, though it is not yet clear whether money is available for those who most need it.
In these restructurings, in the hierarchy of the world of corporate finance, common equity is actually a lower-quality asset.
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However, investors have been pouring money into corporate bonds of all stripes both high-quality, investment grade and low-quality high yields.
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They, like most smart businesses, know that a dollar invested in corporate training pays for itself ten-times over in quality, retention, and overall business agility.
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Arcelor rubbished the quality of Mittal's steel and criticised its corporate governance.
Certainly this strategy cuts costs and improves product quality, but it has another unintended consequence: it nurtures corporate complacency.
The company also embarrassed itself and its corporate team when it chose to replace Google Maps with a low-quality Maps app.
Supposedly independent analysts working behind Chinese walls were paid millions of dollars, not for the quality of their advice to investors but for helping to secure corporate-finance deals from the companies they were analysing.
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Five-year corporate bonds rated AA are yielding 4%, while commercial paper of comparable quality is good for only 1.7%.
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