This appetite for safe securities encouraged Western banks to create synthetic, AAA assets that later turned toxic, with ruinous results.
And fund managers should reinvest the collateral only in absolutely safe securities.
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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Marginal home loans were packaged into supposedly safe securities.
The hope is that by taking a chunk of safe securities off the market, QE will force investors into riskier corporate bonds and stocks, which in turn will nudge big businesses to spend more.
And the report said the credit-rating agencies that decide whether these risky securities are safe to buy need to be much more transparent about the way they work.
However, that may not be the case if 200 or 2, 000 banks fail because most held mortgage-backed-securities they thought were safe because of their AAA ratings and because the strict application of mark to market accounting for those securities in a frozen market wiped out their capital on a massive scale.
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Would brokers and banks have been pushing auction rate securities as entirely safe investments if the bureau had been around three years ago?
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As bad as U.S. budget policies are, investors still see U.S. government securities as a safe haven from even bigger financial nightmares elsewhere in the world.
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The SEC seemed to be accusing Citigroup of committing fraud by bundling hard-to-sell mortgage-backed securities into packages that it assured investors were safe, Rakoff said, while simultaneously shorting those same securities.
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That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
During 2000, Mr Greenspan invested in safe US government bonds, or Treasury securities as they are called.
If that happens, look for the yields on high grade securities to fall as investors seek safe havens.
Gero cited extra interest in gold since the yields in another traditional safe haven, U.S. Treasury securities, are low.
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Also, there may have been some rotation lately into equities from so-called safe havens, including U.S. Treasury securities, said John Person, president of NationalFutures.com.
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Meanwhile, lawsuits continue to fly over the housing meltdown, with Bank of America and others embroiled in litigation with institutions who bet on mortgage securities they claim were inaccurately portrayed as safe investments.
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But she also pointed out that on days of extreme risk aversion in the markets, investors still shift to Treasury securities which still appear to be the ultimate safe-haven.
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While money market funds generally invest in government securities and other vehicles that are considered comparatively safe, they may also take some risks in order to obtain higher yields for their investors.
The plan also offers no "safe harbor" provision to shield mortgage servicers from lawsuits by investors holding the securities backed by a loan being modified.
Investing in Treasury securities may offer lower returns than the stock market but they offer a safe haven during times of market volatility.
Despite positive fundamentals, gold speculators sought liquidity and other safe havens as concerns of contagion risk spread to France and Italy, said TD Securities.
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