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Retirement Accounts401(k) and 403(b) PlansIndividual Retirement Accounts (IRA)SEP and SIMPLE IRAsKeogh PlansMoney Purchase/Profit Sharing PlansSelf-Employed 401(k)s and 457sPension Plan RulesCash-Balance PlansThrift Savings Plans and 529 Plans and ESA
What is a credit default swap?
Keywords: insurance, risk, hedge, swaps, arbitrage, credit default swaps, defaults, interest rate swaps,
What was the Subprime Meltdown?
B/B2 — credit rating
BB/Ba2 — credit rating
Keywords: default risk, S&P, risk premium, high yield bonds, Moody's, Fitch, creditworthiness, BBB, investment grade bonds,
B-/B3 — credit rating
Keywords: treasuries, credit rating, junk bonds, S&P, high yield bonds, Moody's, Fitch, investment grade bonds, default rate, recovery rate, risk free,
A/A2 — credit rating
Keywords: bankruptcy, default risk, S&P, risk premium, Moody's, Fitch, investment grade bonds, upper middle investment grade,
What is a Credit Spread?
Credit Spread is an indication of the default risk perceived in corporate bonds at the current time. Continue reading...
What is Subordinated Debt?
What is Collateral?
What is Counter-Party Risk?
What are forward contracts?
What is Bond Insurance?
AAA/Aaa — credit rating
B+/B1 — credit tating
Keywords: default risk, credit rating, junk bonds, S&P, high yield bonds, Moody's, Fitch, ratings institutions,
What are credit derivatives?
What is the Prime Rate
A+/A1 — credit rating
Keywords: bonds, default risk, S&P, Moody's, Fitch, AAA-rating, investment grade bonds, Credit Rating Agencies (CRA),
BB+/Ba1 — credit rating
Keywords: junk bonds, S&P, high yield bonds, Moody's, Fitch, AAA-rating, BBB, investment grade bonds, Credit Rating Agencies (CRA),
What is Times Interest Earned (TIE)?
What are Bond Ratings?
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