There are also a few alternatives, such as preferred equity and convertible bonds.
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The North American Distressed Debt Market Outlook 2011, a survey of 100 experienced distressed debt investors released by Debtwire, Macquarie Capital and Bingham McCutchen, found that these investors will move their cash from energy to real estate assets and from first and second-lien loans to common equity and convertible bonds.
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Social impact bonds, which involve equity and are not bonds in the traditional sense, recently debuted in the UK to fund prison recidivism programs there.
Kozhemiakin said the fund is currently overweighting Brazilian equity and Mexican government bonds.
Instead, these investments would rely more heavily on active management--things like emerging market equity and debt funds, domestic high-yield bonds, small cap equities, real estate and private equity.
The index was composed of 60 percent in global equity and 40 percent global bonds.
Equity and high-yield bonds respond to some of the same macroeconomic factors.
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The mix of your investments should include publicly traded fixed income and equity assets such as investment grade bonds, preferred stock and common stock.
The majority of these investments are in fixed income securities like government and corporate bonds and the remainder in equity securities, mortgage loans, policy loans and other investment securities.
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As more bonds were converted to equity and its share price tumbled, it scrambled to redeem the bonds, but was unable to beat the brokers.
Gilinski got bridge loans from Barclays and ING, backed by equity in the bank, and sold convertible bonds in the U.S. to get the money to seal the deal in record time.
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It stripped credit risk out of their portfolio, reduced equity and bought 30 year Japanese bonds paying 2.6 percent.
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His comments will impact not only gold, but also other financial markets such as U.S. Treasury bonds and equity markets.
For example, there was the little upbeat ditty they sang in December 2011 to raise more money from the sale of both bonds and equity.
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Under the program, the BOJ buys not only government bonds, but also corporate bonds, equity and real-estate funds, a move other major central banks don't employ.
Just take it over and exchange debt for equity, bonds for stock.
Some risk averse investors may chose not to rebalance between stocks and bonds during down equity markets if they prefer to maintain their safe assets intact.
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When retail investors are worried about their investments in equity (stocks), bonds, and asset allocation funds, they move their money.
And since the main macroeconomic factor which affects the comparative attractiveness of stocks and bonds is growth, equity risk premiums are largely a measure of how much risk investors think there is of poor economic growth in the future.
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Emerging market funds and global equity funds also posted weekly inflow records as investors continued the rotation out of bonds and cash and towards equities, a trend that started in earnest in December.
UBS, says that three-year callable step-up bonds and capital-protected equity funds are currently in vogue.
It looks stormy for stocks, bonds, currencies, private equity and real estate.
They could re-equitize their balance sheets by selling equity in a strong equity market and use the money to get the bonds at a discount.
Micron raises the money to do this by issuing equity (or more typically, bonds convertible into equity) to add to its cash in the bank and profits from ongoing operations.
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First equity, then sub debt, then deposits and senior bonds together, and all treated equally.
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As a "family office" which manages all its clients' financial assets, Iconiq usually steers them to other managers of stocks, bonds, hedge funds and private equity, the same person said.
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If I believed this to be an accurate analysis, I would be tempted to move every dollar I have into high yield bonds and borrow on a home equity line to buy even more.
He backed raiders who mounted takeovers that substituted debt for equity, and he supplied investors with the high-yield bonds they wanted.
The target-date model and age-in-bonds model reduce equity exposure in the later years while the flight path model holds risk constant.
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The top 10% have 80% to 90% of stocks, bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and over 75% of non-home real estate.
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