Sentences with phrase «fund as a buffer»

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Latin American countries with less of a buffer against a global downturn, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also been a drag on exchange traded fund (ETF) flows.

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

Key steps along this path include completion of the transition to full implementation of Basel III, including new liquidity requirements; enhanced prudential standards for systemically important firms, including risk - based capital requirements, a leverage ratio, and tighter prudential buffers for firms heavily reliant on short - term wholesale funding; expansion of the regulatory umbrella to incorporate all systemically important firms; the institution of an effective, cross-border resolution regime for systemically important financial institutions; and consideration of regulations, such as minimum margin requirements for securities financing transactions, to limit leverage in sectors beyond the banking sector and SIFIs.

This includes most prominently Basel III and structural banking reforms, such as the «ringfencing» of domestic operations and «subsidiarisation», which requires banks to operate as subsidiaries overseas, with their own capital and liquidity buffers, and funding dedicated to different entities.

For example, NCB Development Corporation used its $ 6.4 million grant to create the Charter School Capital Access Program; the grant dollars comprise a «first loss reserve» - money that serves as a buffer for lenders in case payments fall through - on a $ 45 million loan pool that NCB and the Reinvestment Fund raised from large financial institutions.

CFP funding contributes to the initiation of an approximately 18 - month investigation focused on how to communicate with policymakers about building resilience, including the concept of «buffering» experiences and relationships, epigenetics as a process underlying resilience, the cultural and biological components of resilience, and interventions related to both building resilience and addressing the apparent lack of resilience in young children.

My proposal is better because it treats money market funds like ETFs — they are pass - through vehicles, and as such, do not need capital buffers.

Really interested in this topic as we are building alerts / metrics into Planwise and the emergency fund / buffer..

Like you, we have buffer baked in to account for supplementing the college funds stash as well as teenage years expenses (Hello orthodontist work, car insurance and the like......)

Still, investors are increasingly using the funds as a liquidity buffer for core debt holdings.

You could keep a small buffer emergency fund and throw as much additional money towards your debt to make progress on paying down the principle balance.

Once you reach your ideal buffer emergency fund, pay down as much debt as you can.

The company should be able to fund dividends with plenty of money left over to leave a buffer for a downturn as well as to re-invest in the business.

THAT»S why we're looking to fund a hefty emergency account, as well as a large checking - account buffer.

This second fund, however, is not quite the priority as the $ 1000 cash buffer and can be kept in somewhat conservative investments (perhaps a stock - bond blend).

It is also prudent to keep some funds in your savings for at least 3 months of mortgage and property taxes as a buffer.

Personally I don't like to have one since I'd rather rely on line of credits but that said, we usually have around $ 3000 in our accounts — I normally think of this as a «cash buffer» rather than an emergency fund but it kind of works out to the same thing.

Stretch goals can be fun and all, but the more Kickstarter projects I see delayed or run out of money despite their funding, the more I think that extra funding might be better used as a buffer against unforeseen costs or events, or as you say, improving the product with contractors or outsourcing rather than adding features.