Sentence examples for vanilla instruments from inspiring English sources
Stocks and bonds are in, while plain vanilla instruments like annuities and insurance are definitely out.
We need much simpler, plain vanilla instruments such as standardized credit default swaps that are exchange-traded, fully collateralized and guaranteed by a central clearing corporation.
One major criticism of the Geithner plan was that it would permit less regulation of some of the more complicated derivatives that are custom-written, rather than plain-vanilla instruments, and would open a loophole that would keep much of the market unsupervised and opaque.
The complex instruments carry steeper risks than the plain vanilla exchange-traded-fund.
Even so, market-watchers expressed disbelief that such huge positions, in instruments that the bank itself described as "plain vanilla", could have been built unnoticed.
Instead of issuing "plain vanilla general obligation bonds," the city financed its debt using certificates of participation (COPs), complex financial instruments municipalities often use to get around debt restrictions.
Along with the threat to the plain-vanilla insurance policies held by millions of ordinary consumers, it was the threat posed by these arcane financial instruments that led Washington to bail out A.I.G.
