Sentence examples for reducing equity from inspiring English sources

One attraction of buying back shares is that it increases returns by reducing equity rather than by improving profits.

The service pursues a disciplined strategy that, among other things, calls for reducing equity exposure as the stock market rises and increasing it as stocks fall.

"The concerns about the economy have reached such a level that we are reducing equity exposure," said Douglas R. Cliggott, United States equity strategist at J. P. Morgan Securities.

Aviva have taken action to reduce volatility ahead of the solvency II framework including disposing distressed property loans, reducing equity volatility (a 25% fall in markets was only 3% off the solvency II ratio at the year end).

And the best way to do this is to borrow more heavily, increasing leverage and reducing equity funding relative to their balance sheets (an equivalent way of saying that they borrow more and rely less on equity — in banking jargon, they reduce their capital levels).

"We had been warning for years prior to 2008 that most funds were ignoring the requirement to protect participants' assets as they approached the retirement date by reducing equity exposure," said Joe Nagengast, founder of Target Date Analytics in Marina del Rey, Calif.

It was worse, so I got busy reducing equities exposure for clients early in the selloff.

Look at reducing equities, junk bonds except for maturities of less than five years and below investment grade preferreds except those by large financial institutions.

That year, Zynga also started to reduce equity packages through demotions.

As for investments, his advice is to "reduce equity exposure, hold gold — it's a quasi-currency".

Yet in recent years much progress has been made in understanding how to reduce equity agency costs, argues Mr Tirole.