Regulators, for their part, took comfort from the fact that hybrids were a bit like equity in that payments could be stopped to preserve capital should a bank run into trouble.

而监管者们也宽慰地认为混合资本在某些地方与股本相似，例如一旦银行陷入危机，支出可立即停止以保证资本。

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And he could sell it easily, like any other equity.

而且和其他公司普通股一样，卖起来也很容易。

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But with lower yields, will investors continue to dabble in bonds, or will they switch their attention to other equity-like assets?

然而随着收益率走低，投资者们还会继续追捧(长期)国债吗，还是会转而关注其他股权类资产呢？

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So 90% of your portfolio is in domestic marketable securities and only 10% is invested in things like real estate or venture capital or private equity -hardly enough to make a difference in terms of the portfolios returns.

于是90%的投资都在本国有价证券中,仅10%用于比如不动产,风险资本或私募股权投资,这一小块几乎对投资回报,没有什么作用

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