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- Dole, in Debt Trouble, Sells Land but Holds Line on Prices
- Here's how scary things are at Dole Food: it's relying on the real estate market to get it out of trouble. To avoid defaulting on $350 million worth of bonds, the company is planning to sell land in Hawaii and California. Dole, the world’s largest purveyor of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Food Companies' Bonds Could Get Junkier
- It's too early to call it a "food recession" â€" too many companies are still doing too well for that â€" but Standard & Poor’s move to put several food producers on "CreditWatch negative" isn’t a good sign. The credit-ratings agency on Thursday said downgrades could be...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Amica Mature Lifestyles F2Q08 (Quarter End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator We will now take questions from the telephone line. Operator Instructions The first question is from Jimmy Chen of NBS. Please go ahead. Jimmy Chen – NBS I just wanted to go to the refinancing. Samir you mentioned the environment had...
- Earnings calls 2008-01-14
- Bond Expert: Friday Wrap
- John Jansen submits: Agency, Swaps and Mortgages Agency spreads were unchanged today versus Treasury paper. One trader noted that the market remains lethargic and is likely to stay that way until someone in authority offers some clarity on the issue of the less robust guarantee that the GSEs have...
- External links 2008-10-17
- 7 Drug Companies Explain How They Dodged (or Didn't) the Credit Crisis
- Drug companies have been the eye of the storm in the recent liquidity crash. High profitability, high cashflow (and making products that people literally can't live without) have left them in a comfortable economic position compared to other consumer-oriented companies. Here’s a selection from recent earnings calls...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Don't Ignore the Bond Market
- Saj Karsan submits: When investors think of putting money in the market, they usually think only of stocks. However, there's a huge bond market out there consisting of corporate debt that, depending on the economy, can offer value investors even more bargains than do stocks. For example, when we met...
- External links 2008-10-26
- OneBeacon Insurance Group Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Bob Glasspiegel – Langen McAlenney Bob Glasspiegel – Langen McAlenney Your press release indicates that you’ve had some further hits in the fourth quarter with respect to bonds. Anything you could quantify? Paul McDonough I’ll give you...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-31
- 3SBio's Q3 Hurt by Lehman Bankruptcy
- ChinaBio Today submits: 3SBio Inc. SSRX announced a $2.7 million writedown as a consequence of the U.S. financial crisis. The company invested in $3 million of Floating Rate Notes due January 21, 2009 that are subject to the credit of Lehman Brothers. As a consequence of the Lehman Brothers...
- External links 2008-11-04
- NYTCo WantsTo Raise Up To $225 Million From Mortgage Or Sale-Lease Of Times HQ
- Last month The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) board cut the family take-home pay—and increased the flow of money to the company—by cutting dividends. This week, according to the NYT, it's planning to mortgage or even work a sales-lease on the family home: up to $225 million on...
- External links 2008-12-08
- Economic Catastrophe Bonds
- The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed income markets, many investors focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Bond Laddering: It's a Financial Shock Absorber!
- Most investors love the excitement of a roller-coaster ride only as long as the market is rising. Their enthusiasm and risk tolerance wanes quickly during market declines. This is especially true for fixed income investors, a group not generally known for thrill seeking pursuits. This paper discusses how such investors...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- The Complexities of Global Credit Investing
- The term "global credit" may have slightly different connotations to different investors. To some investors, it refers to a pure global corporate bond portfolio, while to others it is a broad strategy that also includes Agencies, mortgages and other spread sectors. However it is defined, global credit has gained significance...
- White papers 2005-03-15
- The Evolution of Global Fixed Income Markets
- This paper describes how changes in the issuance of debt around the globe have created more opportunities for higher returns at lower levels of risk for investors. Increases in the issuance and liquidity of global corporate bonds and other spread sectors have led many investors to make a strategic move...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Stocks, Bonds, Money Markets and Exchange Rates: Measuring International Financial Transmission
- The paper presents a framework for analyzing the degree of financial transmission between money, bond and equity markets and exchange rates within and between the United States and the euro area. It finds that asset prices react strongest to other domestic asset price shocks, and that there are also substantial...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Why Conduct an Asset/Liability Study?
- For many defined benefit pension plans, the 2000-2002 negative asset returns and low bond yields have caused undesirable financial results and consequently, in most cases, a reduced level of funded status. Being forewarned can be critical to meeting regulatory requirements, producing acceptable financial results, and remaining within budget. This article...
- White papers 2003-11-10
- Entrepreneurial Finance With Heterogeneous Investors
- This paper presents a model of cash constrained entrepreneurs, who raise money from uninformed investors such as shareholders or bond holders, or from informed investors like venture capitalists or banks. There is a moral hazard problem, which can be partially overcome through monitoring by informed investors. However, monitoring is only...
- White papers 2004-07-07
- International Banking and Financial Market Developments
- This document provides an overview on international banking and financial market developments during the year 2000. The most volatile markets as the stock markets particularly those trading technology stocks. This volatility seems to have taken its toll on investors' willingness to bear risk. Credit spreads widened by more than could...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- A Model for Pricing Stocks and Bonds
- This paper develops a traceable, dynamic, arbitrage-free model capable of jointly pricing a cross section of bonds and stocks. The bond-pricing portion of the model produces the standard affine term-structure equations. The paper then shows that a particular choice of dividend process, characterized by affine dividend yields, leads to stock...
- White papers 2002-04-23
- Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future
- The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. In the following article, we show how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their...
- White papers
- Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future
- The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. The following article shows how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their risk levels,...
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