These include Cerberus Capital Management and Resurgence Asset Management, two firms that run large partnerships devoted to trading the debt of troubled companies; and Credit Suisse First Boston, the brokerage firm, which has invested in the debt of troubled companies.
The only other solutions are to try to find a way to increase income or reduce expenses so that more money can be devoted to repaying the debt.
Investors might also consider a small position in a fund devoted to emerging-markets debt, because many of these markets are direct beneficiaries of rising oil and natural-resource prices.
They will meet Van Rompuy before the other 25 EU leaders sit down for a dinner devoted to resolving the debt crisis – and while Cameron holds talks with Mario Monti, Italy's new technocrat premier.
Greece is a mess, with pensions being shrunk for retirees and utilities like electricity have been cut off from poor people, while the country's resources are being devoted to paying off debt to European banks.
Officials in Washington and some analysts on Wall Street are worried that the amount of borrowings and the relatively high interest rates the loans carry may inhibit economic growth as a growing share of household budgets are devoted to servicing college debt.
Other sources say that a new department devoted to collecting overdue debts is the pride of Wang Xuebing, the bank's president.
British consumers are the most indebted citizens of any Group of 7 nation, and television shows devoted to real estate and debt advice are among the most popular programs in the country.
The underlying logic was lost in the coverage devoted to Dresdner's bad debts.
