Sentences with phrase «average debt maturities»

The US has one of the lowest average debt maturities in the developed world.

Japan has an average debt maturity around 5.5 years.

They don't have to worry about debt maturities: at the end of FY13 the average debt maturity profile was 4.9 years.

Their current average debt maturity was more than 4 years; you only refinance that because you are forced to.

When their average debt maturity gets too short, they have a crisis rolling over the debt.

Japan has an average debt maturity around 5.5 years.

Not exact matches

Average corporate debt maturity surged to 21.3 years in September, according to the latest data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

Second, the average time to maturity on U.S. debt is six years, meaning that most of the low - yielding bonds now on the books will be exchanged for more expensive debt over the next decade.

Though the weighted - average maturity of Treasury debt is currently longer than normal, the average is still only 5.8 years, and half of the debt will have to be rolled over by 2019, at whatever interest rates emerge in the interim.

Its options include (a) cut marginal rates from -0.1 % to a more negative overnight rate target (b) increase purchases in one or several asset classes from current levels (JPY80trn annual in JGB's; JPY3trn in ETF's; JPY90bn in J - REITS)(c) further lengthen the average maturity of holdings (on average somewhere between 5 and 7 years by our estimates)(d) apply forward guidance with respect to its balance sheet or (e) an extreme derivative of (d)-RRB- espouse a «helicopter drop» strategy, wherein the BOJ offers unlimited monetisation of government debt.

This is because creditors lowered interest rates and extended loan maturities (the average maturity of Greece's debt is now 16.5 years, double that of Germany and Italy).

These funds can invest in debt instruments having average maturity longer than 91 days (which is maximum average maturity of an instrument in which a liquid fund can invest).

Commence a systematic transfer strategy from an equity based fund to a short - term bond or debt fund with an average maturity of about 1 to 3 years.

Simply put, Buffett has sold long - dated insurance against the debt of specific companies (credit default obligations or CDSs, expiring between 2009 and 2013) and against declines in the world's major stock market indices (equity index put options, with the first expiration in 2019 and average maturity of 13.5 years).

The fund holds debt with maturities ranging from one to five years, giving the portfolio an average weighted maturity of 2.9 years and a duration of 2.7 years.

The fund's principal investment strategy is to normally invest at least 80 % of the fund's assets in investment - grade debt securities that have a dollar - weighted average portfolio maturity of 18 months (one and a half years) or less.

Well, as I highlighted in my last post, the average European debt maturity is over 7 years.

As the CBO has projected huge deficits PLUS huge debt roll - overs (average maturity down from 7 years to 4 years) up to at least 2019, do you think we could extend the» printing» by foreign central banks — CB's» buying» each others debt — for at least 10 more years?

Lipper Categories: Ultra Short Obligation Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues or better and maintain a portfolio dollar - weighted average maturity between 91 days and 365 days.

Short - Intermediate Investment Grade Debt Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of one to five yeDebt Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of one to five yedebt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of one to five years.

Realty Income finances half its capital structure with debt and has an average of $ 262 million in maturities over the next four years.

Up to 50 percent of the fund's assets are in equity and equity linked securities, while up to 25 percent of the portfolio investments are in debt and money market instruments with one to seven years of average maturity term.

Intermediate Investment Grade Debt Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of five to 10 yeDebt Funds invest primarily in investment - grade debt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of five to 10 yedebt issues (rated in the top four grades) with dollar - weighted average maturities of five to 10 years.

And, REITs have extended the average maturity of their debt to 75 months, locking in these low interest rates until well into the next decade.

Let's start with lengthening the average maturity of Treasury debt.

This is a graph of the average maturity in months of the marketable portion of US Government debt.

Overlooked in the current European hysteria is that the average sovereign debt maturity there is over 7 years — countries have a significant window before headline rates really start to hurt.

The proceeds will be used to pre-pay term loans maturing in 2016/17 and while they will not make a significant dent in interest costs (the new notes will pay 3 month Euribor +350 bps, versus the 3 month Euribor +362.5 - 387.5 bps the term notes pay) they do push out the average maturity of the group's debt, thus reducing the risk around the company and giving it enhanced financial flexibility.

However, it is anticipated that the dollar - weighted average maturity of debt securities that the Fund purchases will not exceed 15 years and that the average maturity of all securities that the Fund holds at any given time will be 10 years or less.

The debt carries an average interest rate of 5.9 percent and has an average maturity term of 1.8 years.

«So instead of having sizable near - term bullets to deal with on refinance, on average, REITs tend to have much smoother debt maturity schedules,» he says.