Archive for the ‘Interest’ Category

Emphasizing the credit opportunity (2010-2-18)

In a labor–management situation, for instance, a company may want to partner with its union to improve quality, productivity, or processes—yet it wants to be adversarial when it comes to negotiating benefits and wages. These two contrary positions may be difficult to understand. A true partnership needs to focus on mutual interests, but it doesn’t [...]

The flows of pension funds and payday loans (2009-11-11)

Fund flows measure the amount of money that comes into or leaves the open-ended mutual funds during a given period. Coupon payments are not included. The flows of pension funds, hedge funds and insurance companies are not tracked in this number. Nevertheless, there is a high correlation between high-yield market total returns and mutual fund [...]