Business assets

Cathy Smart and the investment analysts at 401k Forum help you get down to the ..... with this article about the different asset classes.

Mid-cap stock performance usually falls somewhere in between the returns of their large- and small-cap ......

In a leveraged buyout (LBO), the target company's assets are used as collateral for debt, and its cash flow is used to ..... debt accrued by the buyer to acquire the company.

Such core strategies include traditional equity and fixed income products that are either passively or actively managed against benchmarks such as the S&P 500 and the JP Morgan Government Bond Index, ......

However, while investors are becoming more familiar with asset classes such as convertibles, high yield and emerging ..... debt, a number of new credit products also make attractive satellite components.

However, unlike unsecured bonds, which are fully dependent on the operating, payment ability and ultimately bankruptcy risk of a company, asset backed securities to various degrees tend to be ..... (fully or partly) from those risks.

While ABS bonds have long been a key component of many fixed income strategies, the search for new sources of ..... have led many investors to the ABS market.

This ..... change in how cash assets are viewed and treated has implications for corporate treasurers, who are looking to minimise risks, optimise returns, get the most from their cash portfolios and make the most of their own valuable time.

Recent events in the global capital markets have led to a ..... reassessment of risk, and emphasised the importance of synchronising the credit and liquidity components embedded in investment alternatives with the needs and risk tolerance of the corporation.

To enhance the return on the overall cash portfolio, corporate treasurers see a greater need to break down the portfolio into different types of cash: ..... cash, the least predictable, to meet daily needs; reserve cash, providing a liquidity cushion; and strategic cash, the most predictable, for discretionary use.