Sentences with phrase «maintains investment grade credit»

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Each account will contain investment - grade taxable bonds rated BBB − or higher at time of purchase.2 The investment team will seek to maintain an overall portfolio credit rating average of A −.2 Please be aware that lower rated bonds do carry additional risk compared to higher rated bonds.

To maintain the value implied by the senior debt rating, the TIFIA debt can not exceed the amount of the senior obligations unless the TIFIA credit instrument receives two investment grade ratings.

During the boom phase, any investment grade rating can work; in the bust phase only the best market practices maintain a credit rating.

and few credit sensitive entities maintain an investment grade rating.

One challenge in spinning off its gas network into a separate company and making it attractive to investors was the amount of debt it could hold relative to its assets — it would need to be higher than the energy regulator's limit, while at the same time needing to maintain an investment - grade credit rating so it could benefit from cheaper borrowing costs.