Collateralized debt obligations are securities backed by various assets, such as bonds and loans.
In the 1970s, the marts hit on the holy grail: financial futures, such as bonds and stock indexes.
But it's still unclear whether it can impose losses on unsecured debt, such as bonds and subordinated debt.
However it is a metric that can be deployed across many assets classes such as bonds, equities, forex etc.
So many people compare guys such as Bonds and Clemens to greats of old, and we treat them as such.
This means the account should be invested in less risky investments, such as bonds and cash, once the child reaches 13.
Topics would include financial instruments in East-West trade offered by the banking sector (such as bonds), bank-to-bank cooperation, and even ruble convertibility.
The Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve all purchased financial assets such as bonds with freshly printed money.
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Poorly as they have performed, they are grabbing market share from pure investment banks in areas such as bonds, currencies and commodities (see article).
That said, it also makes sense for you to maintain some exposure to defensive investments such as bonds and cash until the curtain of global uncertainty unfolds.
Also, gold has become more attractive due to worries about other traditional reserve assets such as bonds, particularly with high debt levels in many European nations and the U.S., analysts said.
The very low interest rate environment suggested by the Fed is bullish for gold as it suggests other competing assets, such as bonds or even stocks, will continue to have low annual returns.
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In the five years since the start of the crisis, the investment-banking arms of large international commercial banks have won a dominant share of key markets such as bonds, currencies and commodities (see chart).
The very low interest rate environment suggested by the Fed is bullish for gold and silver as it suggests other competing assets, such as bonds or even stocks, will continue to have low annual returns.
The bank is issuing fewer wealth-management products invested in illiquid instruments such as loans to investment trusts, and more that are invested in liquid but lower-yielding assets such as bonds and money-market instruments, the person said.
The fund industry hopes that as Europeans are forced to think harder about their old age, many will come to see that safe investments such as bonds and bank deposits generate lower long-run returns than equities do.
In this scenario, investments that focus on income generation such as bonds tend to do well as the fixed payment streams that are delivered to investors are worth more, while more growth-oriented investments are negatively impacted by slower growth.
For strategies that invest in a range of asset classes, such as bonds and commodities, investors and advisers should come up with a more-balanced benchmark, says Jonathan Boersma, executive director of Global Investment Performance Standards for the CFA Institute.
There could be a provision that the mix of equities and fixed-income securities in each account would change over time: As one got older, the portion of funds invested in fixed-income instruments, such as bonds, would increase, thereby reducing stock market exposure.
To be blunt, the cause of distress for many parents is ignorance or perhaps even greed: putting all their 529 assets into equities rather than following traditional portfolio diversification into different asset classes such as bonds, which have performed very well as equities have swooned.
This portfolio can be used to embrace all manner of investments such as Bonds, Commodities, Equity, Foreign Exchange, Loans and Options plus less transparent assets such as Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Film Box Office Sales Human Resources, Real Estate, Structured Products, Trade Marks, Patent and Marketing Rights.
Under the so-called 5-3-3-2 rule, applied by both the finance ministry and the health ministry, half the pension-fund investments had to be in assets (such as bonds) where return of the principal was guaranteed, not more than 30% in domestic equities, 30% in foreign securities and 20% in property.
It has an ally in the IMF which has called for the BOE to slow the Basel III implementation timetable and look for ways to reduce bank funding costs by buying private sector assets such as bank bonds and providing long-term facilities such as are offered by the European Central Bank.
Bonds with direct backing by the U.S. government, such as housing bonds, could face downgrades.
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Some company shares, corporate bonds and residential mortgages have been added to the list, which previously only included assets such as government bonds.
Investors are getting rid of risky investments and buying safer assets, such as government bonds.
Falling interest rates have helped to create new markets in high-yielding debt, such as junk bonds.
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Borrowers are venturing into the more toxic end of the credit spectrum, such as junk bonds and leveraged loans.
It is assets such as government bonds, once safely in the mainstream, that must fight for their place in university portfolios.
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The macro, or asset-allocation, approach is to place bets on broad categories of assets, such as German bonds or emerging-market stocks.
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