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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

The Motley Fool

The goal is to earn the spread between the interest from the portfolio and the interest costs on the debt employed to build the portfolio. In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company. There are more moving parts here than I care to track. A couple of charts will help explain this point.

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CalSTRS Leads Big-Money Charge Back To Bonds

Pension Pulse

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q4 2024

Pension Pulse

Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

active fixed income mutual funds. The long-term connectors and our relationships span many years as holders of company debt and equity. A number of significant whole portfolio institutional mandates funded in the quarter, and we continue to be chosen for large global solutions. We have a credit strategies interval fund.

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Top Fund's Activity in Q1 2024

Pension Pulse

Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We expect our acquisition of Kreos Capital to close in the third quarter of this year, adding venture debt capabilities and further bolstering BlackRock's global credit franchise. In May, we capitalized on the improved conditions for debt issuance, issuing 1.25 billion of 10-year debt at a coupon of 4.75%. How do you do that?

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Top Funds' Activity in Q2 2024

Pension Pulse

Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.