Sentences with phrase «qualities of the fixed rate»

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The model for the fixed - income style box is based on the two pillars of fixed - income performance: interest - rate sensitivity and credit quality.

The agency offers safe, fixed rate mortgages; rental assistance for low - income families and individuals; and financing for the development of quality, affordable rental housing.

Given the explosion of high - quality ETFs in the marketplace, sector - rotation strategies can be implemented to alter US equity sectors, country exposure, fixed income sector and rate sensitivities, and commodity and currency exposures.

«In our view this is probably a generational opportunity for high quality corporate bonds and provincials and federal agency bonds,» says Scott Lamont, head of fixed income at Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd., and manager of the firm's bond fund, a top - rated performer on the MoneySense Best Mutual Funds Honor Roll.

the relationship between interest rates and time, determined by plotting the yields of all or as many bonds of similar credit quality (eg: Treasuries or AA - rated Corporates), against their maturities; yield curves typically slope upward since longer maturities normally have higher yields, although it can be flat or even inverted; the Fixed Income Search Results Scattergraph shows several smoothed yield curves for different fixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based on bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of bonds, which is significantly larger than the number of bonds offered by Fidelity on any giveFixed Income Search Results Scattergraph shows several smoothed yield curves for different fixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based on bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of bonds, which is significantly larger than the number of bonds offered by Fidelity on any givefixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based on bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of bonds, which is significantly larger than the number of bonds offered by Fidelity on any given day

In addition, these funds must invest primarily in investment - grade fixed - income securities, such that the average credit quality of the portfolio as a whole is investment grade (BBB or equivalent rating or higher) and not more than 25 % of the portfolio's holdings are invested in high yield fixed income securities.

For fixed - income funds, the vertical axis shows the credit quality of the long bonds owned and the horizontal axis shows interest rate sensitivity as measured by a bond's effective duration.

The fixed income style box demonstrates the two most important and distinguishing characteristics of fixed income funds: credit quality and interest rate sensitivity.

Strategy: The fund invests exclusively in short - term, high - quality fixed income securities in the highest rated short - term category according to one or more of the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (or of comparable quality).

Fixed income securities are subject to increased loss of principal during periods of rising interest rates and may be subject to various other risks, including changes in credit quality, liquidity, prepayments, and other factors.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index (Representing U.S. High Yield) is a total return performance benchmark for fixed income securities having a maximum quality rating of Ba1 (as determined by Moody's Investors Service).

Investments are restricted to fixed - income securities with an average credit quality rating of double - A and minimum credit quality rating of investment grade.

The basis point change presented in the preceding table, however, represents a fixed basis point change in reference obligation credit spreads across all credit quality rating categories and asset classes and, therefore, the actual impact of spread changes would vary from this presentation depending on the credit rating and distribution across asset classes, both of which will adjust over time depending on new business written and runoff of the existing portfolio.

Low Quality's Round Trip Bad News Bulls Stock Performance Following the Recognition of Recession The Beginning of the Middle Experimenting with the Market's Median Valuation Anchored Inflation Expectations and the Expected Misery Index Consumer Spending Break - Down Recessions and the Duration of Bad News Price - to - Sales Ratio May Prove Valuable International Markets Show Important Divergences Fixed Investment and the Technology Rally Global Yield Curves, Earnings Growth, and Sector Returns Recessions and Stock Prices Adjusting P / E Ratios for the Market Cycle Private Equity and Market Valuation Must Stocks Rise Following a Cut in the Fed Funds Rate?

Because low interest rates and quantitative easing — the buyback of public debt to help spur growth in the area's troubled countries — has caused high - quality stocks to rise without actually fixing the Eurozone's problems.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index is a total return performance benchmark for fixed income securities having a maximum quality rating of Ba1 (as determined by Moody's Investors Service).

Because of their typically attractive yields and investment - grade credit ratings, fixed - rate capital securities can help investors achieve enhanced returns without sacrificing credit quality.

Similar to the Venn diagram in which the overlapping section of circles is the focus, the S&P U.S. High Quality Preferred Stock Index is designed to measure preferred securities that are constituents of both the fixed - rate and investment - grade preferred stock indices.

In addition to the normal risks associated with fixed income securities discussed elsewhere in this SAI and the fund's prospectus (e.g., interest rate risk and default risk), CDOs carry additional risks including, but not limited to: (i) the possibility that distributions from collateral securities will not be adequate to make interest or other payments; (ii) the quality of the collateral may decline in value or default; (iii) the fund may invest in CDOs that are subordinate to other classes; (iv) the complex structure of the security may not be fully understood at the time of investment and may produce disputes with the issuer or unexpected investment results; and (v) credit ratings by major credit rating agencies may be no indication of the creditworthiness of the security.

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• Comprehend the need for required goods and services and solicit bids • Perform basic analysis for fixed priced and variable contracts • Conduct basic procurement procedures to acquire goods and services • Analyze business practices and market conditions to evaluate bid responsiveness • Draft contract provisions and correlating documents • Solicit sources of supplies, analyze and compare prices and discount rates • Negotiate prices and transportation charges • Draw up contracts for each vendor / supplier decided upon and send out contracts to be signed • Plan and carry out recruiting work by following established procedures • Assist in training personnel to carry out the work that they have been hired for • Ascertain that procured goods are received on time and check for quality and quantity

Software Quality Assurance Technician — Phoenix Software and Applications — Phoenix, AZ — January 2009 — September 2014 • Troubleshot programs to identify areas in need of improvement and point out issues to programmers • Pushed programs to their limits to test their stability and make note of areas of weakness • Booted applications with multiple different hardware and operating systems to check for compatibility issues • Described problems to programmers and provided detailed reports for them to fix errors • Maintained a bug elimination rating of more than 90 percent

SUMMARY - Senior Quality Assurance Engineer / Functional Analyst with 10 + years of diverse experience in IT industry - 3 years of experience in financial industry specializing in solutions for OTC / Listed Derivatives Clearing, Central Counterparty Clearing Houses (CCP) workflows and reporting, Credit and Rates Products Risk calculations as well as electronic trading and FIX - Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycl...

Areas of expertise Sales and Marketing, B2B Contract Negotiations, Transportation Systems, Manufacturing and Quality systems, Development and implementation of continuous, batch or fixed rate production environments and related capital equipment expenditure, Kan - ban and lean manufacturing methods, projected verses scheduled yields, capturing delta utilizing innovative technologies and practices.

The agency offers safe, fixed rate mortgages; rental assistance for low - income families and individuals; and financing for the development of quality, affordable rental housing.

You can be a discounter, a flat fee or a fix rate charger, percentage, but how much you can deliver in terms of quality depends much on how much quality income are you really generating.