The Fund is considered non-diversified and can invest a greater portion of assets in securities
of individual issuers than a diversified fund.
Fixed income prices respond to changing economic environments, including interest rate changes and credit risk perceptions
of individual issuers, which can negatively affect the price and income level.
Except for mutual funds in the over $ 1 billion asset size class, it does not seem usual practice for individual mutual funds to accumulate greater than 5 % positions in the equities
of individual issuers.
Not exact matches
Bonds are weighted according to their market value; however,
individual issuers are capped at a maximum
of 3 %.
Bond funds typically own a number
of individual bonds
of varying maturities, so the impact
of any single bond's performance is lessened if that
issuer should fail to pay interest or principal.
Just as
individuals have their own credit report and rating issued by credit bureaus, bond
issuers generally are evaluated by their own set
of ratings agencies to assess their creditworthiness.
One feature
of bond markets that limits their liquidity is that
individual issuers may have a large number
of different securities outstanding.
Of course, if you hold
individual bonds to maturity, you may be able to ride out price fluctuations, knowing that as long as the bond
issuer doesn't default, you will get your principal back at maturity and interest payments along the way.
All interested parties, namely: - members
of management
of companies seeking financing, particularly early stage businesses and other small and medium - sized enterprises; -
individual and institutional investors; - dealers, representatives and other registered persons; and - lawyers, accountants and other professionals offering services to
issuers.
«The Commission could consider leaving the current income and net worth thresholds in the accredited investor definition in place, but limiting investments for
individuals who qualify as accredited investors solely based on those thresholds to a percentage
of their income or net worth (e.g., 10 %
of prior year income or 10 %
of net worth, as applicable, per
issuer, in any 12 - month period).»
Holding an
individual bond to maturity will result in the return
of principal (assuming the bond
issuer doesn't default), but those nominal dollars will be worth less with inflation and during periods
of higher interest rates.
- PIV Trusted Agent: A PIV Trusted Agent is an
individual designated by the AA to perform certain duties
of either the PIV
Issuer or the PIV Registrar.
You should also try to diversify among
individual bonds, perhaps by holding a number
of securities from different
issuers.
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of interest
Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Industrial revenue bonds Inflation Inflation rate Initial public offering Inside market Insider Instinet Institutional investor Intangible drilling and development costs Integration Interbank market Interest Intermarket Trading System (ITS) Interpositioning In - the - money Intrastate offering Intrinsic value Introducing broker / dealers Inventory Inverted head and shoulders pattern Investment Investment adviser Investment Advisers Act
of 1940 Investment banker Investment Company Investment Company Act
of 1940 Investment contract Investment grade securities Investor brochure In - whole call IOC IPO Issue
Issuer
Other factors to consider when looking at
individual bonds include the credit quality
of the
issuer and the time until the bond matures.
The MSRB's portal EMMA also provides free access to annual continuing disclosure about the financial condition
of an
issuer as well as additional specific data on
individual municipal securities.
Other credit card
issuers, meanwhile, don't set prearranged limits, but rather do a more indepth analysis
of each customer's finances to arrive at
individual numbers.
Rewards programs are
individual card
issuers» way
of incentivizing the public to use their card over a competitor's.
My first stop is PC and not
individual card
issuers since I get a running list
of transactions from all accounts.
Of course, if you hold
individual bonds to maturity, you may be able to ride out price fluctuations, knowing that as long as the bond
issuer doesn't default, you will get your principal back at maturity and interest payments along the way.
On the flip side, some
of these cards do not offer bonus rewards, they may have an annual fee, or the card
issuer typically only considers
individuals with good or excellent credit (keep in mind that your credit score as well as other factors are involved in determining if you qualify for a credit card).
With
individual bonds, the risk level depends on the bond's characteristics like the credit worthiness
of the
issuer.
Just as
individuals have their own credit report and rating issued by credit bureaus, bond
issuers generally are evaluated by their own set
of ratings agencies to assess their creditworthiness.
For
individual bonds, there is a maturity date at which you can expect to receive the face value
of the bond (the
issuer's creditworthiness is important here).
However, not all kinds
of agency bond issues are considered liquid, including some
of which may be structured for a particular
issuer or class
of investors and may not be suitable for
individual investors.
measurement
of the risk
of default
of an
individual fixed - income security or the
issuer of a fixed - income security; generally measured by one
of the major ratings agencies
They will force someone to issue a credit card to a homeless
individual with no job or income
of any sort and then tell the card
issuer they can't penalize the homeless
individual for paying late and can't try to collect the debt in any way.
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of any bank, credit card
issuer, airlines or hotel chain, or other advertiser and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any
of these entities.
An
individual's credit limit is the maximum line
of credit extended by the credit card
issuer or lender.
Although the Department
of Education is the largest
issuer of federal student loans for borrowers in the United States, they do not often service the loans issued to
individuals after funds are disbursed.
In the above - mentioned list
of companies, whose common stocks all are selling at meaningful discounts from NAV and which also enjoy super-strong financial positions, long - term returns to TAM investors would likely be more than satisfactory, if the
individual issuers could increase their NAV after adding back dividends by at least 10 % per annum compounded.
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of any bank, credit card
issuer, airlines or hotel chain, or other advertiser and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any
of these entities.
The collateral behind these bonds often consists
of a pool
of high - yield bonds diversified by
issuers and industries, which enables the pool to obtain a higher rating than any
individual bond in the pool.
Price risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows
of a financial instrument will fluctuate due to a change in market prices (other than those arising from interest rate risk or currency risk), whether those changes are caused by factors specific to the
individual financial instrument or its
issuer, or factors affecting similar financial instruments traded in the market.
The Bank
of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Constrained Index limits any
individual issuer included in the Bank
of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Index to a maximum
of 2 % benchmark exposure.
While the actual upper limit will vary by scoring model, the type
of credit product, and even the
individual credit card
issuer, many consumers with credit scores below 650 will fall into the «Bad Credit» category.
In the case
of resident aliens, foreign nationals, and other immigrants who don't qualify for an SSN, some
issuers will accept an
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) in its place.
That said,
individual issuers sometimes have their own limitations on how many
of their cards a particular cardholder can obtain.
Many
issuers offer corporate cards that can be issued to
individual employees, and many
of these can offer cash - back rewards.
That's why it's important to carefully study your
individual spending patterns, determine the perks you find most valuable, and think about the type
of service you expect from a card
issuer.
An
issuer or selling security holder is no longer entitled to accept an
individual investor's standard representations in a subscription agreement or initials beside the applicable category on the relevant form: the seller now has a positive responsibility to take reasonable steps to verify the investor's representations and ensure the terms
of the exemption relied upon are met, and to retain relevant documentation to evidence the steps it took to establish that the investor met the exemption's conditions.
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We assist our clients with corporate and securities compliance issues, such as continuous disclosure and insider trading requirements
of issuers and
individuals.
In addition, our securities and litigation attorneys have substantial experience in the representation
of issuers, officers and directors, broker - dealers, registered representatives and
individuals in a broad range
of investment, compliance and employment matters, including in SEC, FINRA and state investigations and proceedings.
(1) an interest in the
individual holdings within a mutual or common investment fund; (2) an interest in securities held by an educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organization in which the judge or the judge's spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child serves as a director, an officer, an advisor, or other participant; (3) a deposit in a financial institution or deposits or proprietary interests the judge may maintain as a member
of a mutual savings association or credit union, or similar proprietary interests; or (4) an interest in the
issuer of government securities held by the judge.
If a group health plan provides health benefits solely through an insurance contract with a health insurance
issuer or HMO, and the group health plan creates or receives protected health information in addition to summary information (as defined in § 164.504 (a)-RRB- and information about
individuals» enrollment in or disenrollment from a health insurance
issuer or HMO offered by the group health plan, the group health plan must maintain a notice that meets the requirements
of this section and must provide the notice upon request
of any person.
In addition, group health plans that provide health benefits only through an insurance contract and do not create, maintain, or receive protected health information (except for summary information described below or information that merely states whether an
individual is enrolled in or has been disenrolled from the plan) do not have to meet the notice requirements
of § 164.520 or the administrative requirements
of § 164.530, except for the documentation requirement in § 164.530 (j), because these requirements are satisfied by the
issuer or HMO that is providing benefits under the group health plan.
First, we include a group health plan and an
issuer or HMO with respect to the group health plan within the definition, but only with respect to the protected health information
of the
issuer or HMO that relates to
individuals who are or have been participants or beneficiaries in the group health plan.
Individuals enrolled in such group health plans have the right to notice
of the health insurance
issuer or HMO's privacy practices and, on request, to notice
of the group health plan's privacy practices.
In this case, the
individuals enrolled in the group health plan would receive notice
of the health insurance
issuer or HMO's privacy practices, but would not be entitled to notice
of the group health plan's privacy practices.