Sentences with phrase «buffer against loss»
Others do not guarantee principal, but may provide a partial buffer against loss or offer the potential for enhanced returns.
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Cash is good to have on hand because it serves as a buffer against losses and allows you to buy great companies at lower prices.
CDOs work by layering the claims on a pool of mortgages into tranches that give the senior claims a buffer against losses.
The banks can hold the assets to maturity, they have a buffer against losses in their capital, and don't have to mark to market in an assiduous manner (though they * should * have to do so).
Not exact matches
Still, Canadian lenders have had mixed success south of the border — RBC bailed in 2011, selling its retail banking operations and taking a $ 1.6 - billion paper loss — and the U.S. market may not prove to be much of a buffer against a slowdown in Canada.
Johnson and Gove can afford to be irresponsible: they are rich enough to be buffered personally against the economic risks of Brexit and will leave it to their erstwhile colleagues in the cabinet to deal with the immediate speculative attack and longer term loss of investment that a vote for Leave would result in.
«It has been predicted that more complex food webs will be less vulnerable to extinction cascades because there is a greater chance that other species can step in and buffer against the effects of species loss.
Well, because dividends offer are viewed as a buffer or protection against stock market losses.
So there's this effective pool of money they can use to buffer against large losses with; it's called float.
Third, tree based agricultural systems often provide additional benefits such as fruits, fodder, fuelwood and timber and thereby diversifies the production system to buffer against weather related production losses and hence raise smallholder resilience against climate impacts (Nair et al..
The editorial also praised home ownership as a way out of financial instability: «Homeownership also proved to be a buffer against financial loss in the downturn.