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BlackRock, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. Our next question will from the line of Roger Smith with Fox-Pitt Kelton. Laurence Fink Hey, Roger. Roger Smith – Fox-Pitt Kelton Thanks very much. My first question really is on the RFPs that you're talking about and you said it is much more robust...; Tags: RFP, Fixed Income, Call Transcript, Earnings, BlackRock Inc., Investment, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-10-20
Legg Mason, Inc. F2Q10 (Qtr End 09/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions. Our first question comes from Dan Fannon of Jefferies. Dan Fannon – Jefferies Hi, good morning. Could you guys talk a bit about your pipeline in a little bit more detail and then kind of give us a sense, Mark, as you guys...; Tags: Legg Mason Inc., Fixed Income, Call Transcript, Equity, Earnings, Investment, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Finance, Seeking Alpha; Earnings calls 2009-10-22
AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript: Question-and-Answer Session Operator Absolutely. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from William Katz – Buckingham Research. William Katz – Buckingham Research My question is on the Institutional pipeline. You mentioned that you're seeing a little bit of a pickup in the gross sales. I was wondering if you...; Tags: Fixed Income, Call Transcript, Earnings, Investment, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Finance, Seeking Alpha, AllianceBernstein Holding LP; Earnings calls 2009-10-29
Fixed Income Capabilities: Risk management is integral to all of the investment strategies. Every client portfolio has risk controls embedded into its investment process, and the proprietary risk management system grants us the capability to analyze every bond in every client portfolio on a daily basis to confirm that we are bearing only...; Tags: Investment Strategy, Fixed Income, Risk Management, Morgan Stanley, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Investment, Security, Finance, Management; White papers 2002-04-01
Fixed Income Year End Review: Calendar year 2002 marked the third consecutive year in which U.S. investment-grade bonds outperformed U.S. equities. The favorable performance for the asset class, however, resulted in extreme valuations in many areas of the market, which pose new challenges and opportunities for bond investors in the New Year.This report is an...; Tags: Bond, Fixed Income, Morgan Stanley, Investment, Finance; White papers 2003-02-03

Global Financial Developments : An Overview: This article is about the overview of global financial developments.The most volatile markets were the stock markets, particularly those trading technology stocks. However, the volatility also extended to the fixed income markets and major currencies. One source of volatility seemed to be uncertainty, engendered by data released during the period,...; Tags: Volatility, Financial, Stock, Fixed Income, Bank For International Settlements, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2000-06-01
Interest Rate Swaps: It is the exchange of one set of cash flows for another. A pre-set index, notional amount and set of dates of exchange determine each set of cash flows. The most common type of interest rate swap is the exchange of fixed rate flows for floating rate flows. One of...; Tags: Financial, Interest Rate, Fixed Income, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance; White papers
Year End Market Review 2001: More of the Same, but Different: This paper displays the data of asset allocation, U.S. equity, fixed income, international equity and alternative investments, across asset classes and performance deteriorated from 2000 to 2001. It reveal the statistics of second worst two-year period for U.S. equity in recent history, liability-sensitive investors were further threatened by lower bond...; Tags: U.S., Fixed Income, Equity, BARRA ROGERSCASEY, Investment, Financial Services, Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations; White papers 2003-01-01
After 100,000 Miles, It's Time To Look Under The Hood : Fixed Income Portfolio Management For The Next Decade: Over the past several years, the concentration of fixed income flows into a small number of investment management firms has been quite significant. This trend, combined with a decreasing capital commitment from Wall Street, introduces the question of "How Does Size Impact Investment Strategy?" The inherent risks and implications of...; Tags: Institute For Fiduciary Education, Fixed Income, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Deconstructing Structured Products: This article offer an outline as to what structured products are, who is making them available, and what investors should be aware of when putting a deal together. Fundamentally, Structured Products most often include a fixed income element, which serves to protect investors' capital, combined with equity, or absolute return...; Tags: Fixed Income, Investor, Cole Partners, Investment, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Fixed Income: Managers of investment portfolios are concerned about risk, return, and the amount of risk required to achieve a specific return. In the pursuit of returns, history and theory confirm that the expected return on equities exceeds the expected return on fixed income. Managers looking for superior inflation-adjusted returns begin with...; Tags: Volatility, Fixed Income, Equity, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2003-01-01
Stable Value Vs. Money Market Funds: This article emphasizes that a stable value participant is subject to the Equity Wash rules. A participant may only invest stable value assets in a competing investment option by first transferring assets from the stable value portfolio to a non-competing investment and the assets must remain in the non-competing investment...; Tags: Asset, Fixed Income, Portfolio, State Street, Asset Management, Investment, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2001-06-20
Strategies For A Low Yield World: In this era of very low interest rates and yields, all fixed income investors are finding that the returns from their portfolios are under pressure. This is especially true of official investors such as central banks and government funds, whose asset allocations have tended to be towards the lower risk...; Tags: Asset, Strategy, Fixed Income, Investor, State Street, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2003-07-01
The Case For U.S. Mortgage-Backed Securities For Global Investors: This article emphasizes about the U.S. Mortgage-Backed Securities for Global Investors. One of the most attractive features of MBS, and of prime importance to global investors, is their security. Mortgage-Backed Securities, whether explicitly guaranteed by the Treasury or by the two Government Sponsored Entities FNMA and FHLMC, are generally considered...; Tags: Fixed Income, Investor, State Street, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2003-02-28
Management Of Risk in Fixed Income Asset Management: It is a fact that the way to make money in any market is to sell investments for a higher price than the price at which they were bought. Many amateur investors assume from this that the key to successful investment is some sort of superior crystal ball, enabling the...; Tags: Fixed Income, Investor, State Street, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2001-12-01
Simple, Cost-Effective And Targeted Access To Bonds: Fixed Income iShares: An ETF represents a basket of securities that tracks a specific market index. ETFs trade on major stock exchanges, like a stock, and therefore their price fluctuates continuously in real time to reflect changes in the prices of the underlying assets. ETFs offer investors the cost-effective opportunity to buy or...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Bond, ETF, Fixed Income, PCT Publishing, BGI, Financial Services, Investment, Finance; White papers 2002-10-01
Property/Casualty Fixed Income Investments...2000: This article presents the year 2000 investment results achieved within the property/casualty industry. The focus is fixed income investments. It summarizes the results on "surplus exposed to "risk" assets," "fixed income credit quality," "fixed income asset allocation," "taxable book yields," "company size," and "company performance." It presents an...; Tags: Result, Fixed Income, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2001-12-01
Risk and Return in Fixed Income Arbitrage: Nickels In Front of a Steamroller?: This paper has conducted an analysis of risk and return characteristics of fixed income arbitrage. It shows that a widely-used fixed income arbitrage strategy based on swap spreads generates sizable positive excess returns over an extended period. The findings shows, that most of these excess returns represent compensation for risk;...; Tags: Financial, Fixed Income, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2004-04-01
Micro and Macro Structures in Fixed Income Markets: The Issues at Stake in Europe: This paper gives a brief introduction of fixed income in European markets. How these markets provide liquidity and the effectiveness by which the prices they form serve as informative signals about fundamentals. The discussion is divided into three groups. First issues related to the effect of the euro on market...; Tags: Fundamentals, Fixed Income, ECB-CFS Research Network, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2002-04-27
Global Fixed Income Portfolio Management: Global income investing has become very popular over the last decade as investors worldwide sought more favorable risk-return tradeoffs by combining international positions with domestic alternatives. The primary purpose of this paper is to develop a model that properly specifies risks and returns, so that the global investor may make...; Tags: Asset, Risk, Fixed Income, Investor, Asset Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management; White papers 2000-12-06