Sentence examples for complex investments from inspiring English sources

Smaller banks were keen buyers of these complex investments.

And it steered clear of complex investments its executives could not value.

They're not being dishonest; they just haven't untangled all of their complex investments.

They also ran so-called stress tests on complex investments that ended up losing money when the economy went south.

Furthermore, unexpected problems could yet emerge in the complex investments that were popular with banks and hedge funds.

Not simple loans, but complex investments created by pooling millions of mortgages together and then slicing them into pieces.

Markets for some complex investments, like collateralized debt obligations, do not appear to have been policed by anyone.

It opened up a new world of ever more complex investments, blossoming into a gigantic global industry.

They also assumed that complex investments linked to home loans drawn from around the nation were diversified, and thus safer.

That led it to reduce its positions in asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations — complex investments that fell into trouble when their underlying mortgages went sour.

LONDON — The surprise $2.85 billion write-down at Credit Suisse this week underscored the difficulty banks face in valuing complex investments.