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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The fact that early bonds had no fixed maturity date ensured that any change in interest rate was fully reflected in the capital value of the bond.

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You buy a series of quality fixed-income securities with staggered maturity dates.

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Today, Pennell believes that the number of fixed cost technologies is higher than is sustainable but in 2009, the maturity of Cloud technologies was not sufficient to support the challenging requirements of the Games.

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For one thing, it is hard to know how much companies have in fact lengthened the maturity of their debts because the interest-rate swap market allows them to swap those fixed bond payments into cheaper floating debt, a popular strategy in the investment-grade market.

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