Sentence examples for class of asset from inspiring English sources

Mr Glover says they want to create a new class of asset management, one that includes all of Iwokrama's services.

In the analysis, their performance was being measured relative to their benchmarks, essentially asking, for every different class of asset, whether the funds performed better or worse than a corresponding index fund would have.

During the 1960s there was a resurgence of the commercial bill, which finally became the discount houses' largest single class of asset, only to be overtaken later by the certificate of deposit.

The weight for each class of asset ranges from zero (for assets thought to be very safe, such as the government debt of developed countries) to 100% (for unsecured loans to consumers and companies).

"Institutional investors would love to see this class of asset," said Ken Locklin, a managing director at Impax Asset Management, who spoke on the same panel as Gordon at Avant EE. "They won't reach for it; it has to be on the platter, pre-cut.

If different assets are unlikely to take a beating simultaneously, or if price falls in some tend to be offset by rises in others, the bank's overall risk may be low even if the potential loss on each individual class of asset is high.The easy-sounding label for this thinking is "portfolio theory".

"There is a class of assets out there that are more risky than AAA, but less risky than AA+.

Instead, the implosion of an entire class of assets led to widespread loss of trust in the financial system.

A whole class of assets, like leveraged loans, was created that depended on investors using borrowed money to buy them.

We are supposed to be economists; governments are run by economists, but a whole class of assets are missing from their dataset".

Mr. Paulson attracted fame for betting against subprime mortgages at a time when many of his rivals had not even heard of the now notorious class of assets.