In a future post, I will elaborate on how active management is even more essential to specific types of fixed income securities, such as munis.

FORBES: With Bond Yields So Low, Why Should You Pay More For Active Management?

These return drivers may include reduced exposure to long equity, and increased exposure to alternatives, commodities, master limited partnerships, and different types of fixed income securities that provide returns commensurate with the risks.

FORBES: How European Bank Woes Could Wreak Havoc On A Portfolio

Since then, the ICBC broker-dealer in the U.S. has focused on clearing trades of Treasury bonds and other types of fixed-income securities for clients.

WSJ: Bank of China Eyes Expansion Into U.S. Securitization

In fact, for all the current excitement about rock-star bonds and the like, it is striking that the vast majority of asset-backed securities are American and involve a few types of assets, such as mortgage and credit-card loans, which generate relatively predictable amounts of cash at predictable times.

ECONOMIST: Bonds that rock and roll

But the due diligence requirements implied in the scienter element of many types of fraud actions and provided expressly as defenses under securities laws are only one component of the due diligence analysis pertinent to the question of civil and criminal liability for SCF.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah��s Black Box

Companies were required to start reporting to Delaware abandoned accounts, per the new rules, in the first quarter of this year, but there was much confusion throughout the securities industry as to how to handle certain types of accounts.

WSJ: State Governments Eye 'Inactive' Broker Accounts

The loans are sold to banks, which then chop them up and repackage them in securities, complete with ratings and tranches to appeal to different types of investors.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Kuroda made good on his promise of boosting monetary easing in terms of both volume and types of assets that the bank purchases, " said Junko Nishioka, chief Japan economist at RBS Securities in Tokyo.

BBC: Haruhiko Kuroda