Sentences with phrase «quality debt issues»

How to do it: Some of the best short - term bond funds are iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD), which is a highly - liquid ETF filled to the brim with high - quality debt issues.

Not exact matches

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

So while these «fallen angel» bonds have the potential to be intrinsically higher quality than debt originally issued at the junk or high - yield level, undue structural selling pressure from the downgrade can cause them to sell at a discount.

MINT is a low - cost, actively - managed fund that seeks higher current income than the average money market mutual fund by holding a hodgepodge of high - quality and ultra-short term USD - denominated debt issued by domestic or foreign issuers.

The three - day Central Economic Work Conference is expected to set major changes in economic indicators to reflect more on the quality of the economic growth rather than mere growth speed, while tackling specific issues such as mounting debts, poverty and pollution.

When investor preferences are risk - seeking, overly loose monetary policy can have a disastrous effect by promoting reckless speculation and enhancing the ability of low - quality borrowers to issue debt to yield - starved investors.

The cause is always speculative distortion that was well - known for quite some time: elevated valuations, often accompanied by speculation and new issues of low - quality stocks representing some «new economy» theme, or yield - seeking speculation and heavy issuance of low quality debt.

He's reduced taxes and debt twice, continued to make water quality a signature issue, and addressed his long - standing concerns over the lack of affordable housing on the East End by working with developer Georgica Green Ventures and community members to gain town board approval for a 38 - unit workforce housing project in Speonk.

@user1873 It is also unclear if Article IV puts a floor on the quality of debt issued, or simply leaves it to the market.

Candidates have voiced few ideas (with Sen. Marco Rubio as the one - time and now faded exception), sapping our confidence that they are ready to solve the complicated postsecondary issues of federal debt and education quality.

Currently, our debt portfolio is invested in the highest credit quality assets encompassing securities issued by AAA rated companies and Government of India securities.

For many people, the pressure of aggressive creditors and debt collectors becomes a major quality of life issue.

Given concerns about credit quality and the need to preserve capital we're seeing unusual demand for government securities; a recent issue of U.S. government floating - rate debt attracted almost six times the offered amount.

States, cities, and other public entities issue debt to fund projects for essential infrastructure and to enhance the quality of public life.

If company ABC (Rating: AAA) wanted to issue bonds at 5.00 % their competitor XYZ (Rating: AA) would have to pay a higher yield to attract the equivalent investment because of the perceived lesser quality of their debt.

Vanguard's VSG has a similar duration, but higher credit quality and exposure to federal government issued debt than to its two closest rivals, First Asset's FGB and iShares» CLF, Kletz says.

Anyone who's ever relied on a Student Loan Forbearance or Student Loan Deferment will be familiar with the way that this program works, and all the same issues apply — typically, if you quality for the program, you won't have to make principal tax payments, but you will start racking up interest on whatever amount of debt you owe.

This is important because a big part of what was happening in 2008 was that the new debt being issued was being issued to people with low credit quality.

Since this fund is composes of higher quality issues, the risk of default is modest compared to junk bonds, but of course, we only consider US government debt as the sole risk - free bond issuer.

Credit ratings can also speak to the credit quality of an individual debt issue, such as a corporate note, a municipal bond or a mortgage - backed security, and the relative likelihood that the issue may default.

The Fund will not purchase a debt security that is rated less than Caa / CCC by Moody's or S&P, respectively, and will only purchase an unrated debt security if the Fund managers believe that the security is of at least B quality, subject to a limitation that the Fund may not hold more than 20 % of its net assets in debt securities that are rated less than B or that are unrated debt securities of similar quality, based on the Fund managers» fundamental analysis of the issuer and of rated bonds issued by similar issuers.