8) After many other crises,
junior debt gets grabbed when seniors have rallied a great deal.
Not exact matches
Senior
debt is paid first, then
junior (subordinated)
debt, and stockholders
get whatever is left over.
If I created a Collateralized
Debt Obligation [CDO] out of similar instruments, with what would be light leverage of 15 times, and it had just two tranches — 94 % senior, 6 %
junior, the senior obligations would
get a AAA (probably), but the
junior obligations would be rated BB or so — just my back - of - the - envelope guess, but consistent with my experience.
I ended up
getting more scholarship money for my Sophomore,
Junior and Senior years than I did my Freshman year and those scholarships helped me graduate student loan
debt free.
The preferred stocks reflect a part of the credit market that hasn't
gotten whacked too bad, offering a decent yield for the
junior debt on healthy companies risk.
In the case of default, creditors with unsubordinated
debt would
get paid out in full before the
junior debt holders.
After filing for bankruptcy, the «senior
debts» are the «priority
debts» that must
get paid first, and then next the «
junior»
debts get paid, etc...
Meanwhile, over in the corporate department,
juniors get stuck into M&A, plus securities offerings and
debt work.
You're $ 100K in
debt (or more), you've
gotten used to a certain income, and you've grown accustomed to having a secretary and a staff of paralegals (not to mention
junior associates) to boss around.
But let's say
Junior gets a scholarship, you pay off a ton of
debt and / or
get a totally unexpected windfall.
One way to alleviate the pressure is to consider an in - state public college as this is a viable way for
Junior to both
get a solid education and graduate with substantially less
debt.
In other words, if
Junior got a high school scholarship or you paid down
debt a lot faster than you thought you would, call your insurer up to see if you can adjust your policy (more here).