Private equity operators start to do deals in an active new issue market for debt securities and equities.

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Thus began the 30-year bull market in debt securities of the United States.

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Nevertheless, Fidelity has been "substantially" adding emerging-market debt, especially Asian high-yield securities, to its holdings over the past 12 months.

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Buyers of retail property have been taking advantage of debt financing available from the sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities, a market that has been gathering steam.

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As we have pointed out over the past year in our disclosures and quarterly calls, we have taken advantage of the dislocations in the European sovereign debt market by buying short dated debt in European peripherals and financing those securities to their exact maturity date.

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Monthly-dividend payers can be concentrated in the same sector, may have high correlations during a bear market, and are usually small or mid-cap securities with larger debt obligations.

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With long-term investment horizons, life insurance companies in developed economies are important investors in the stock market, as well as in the private placement markets for debt and equity securities issued by small- and medium-sized enterprises.

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The effectiveness of ECB purchases of government bonds through its Securities Market Program has also been weakened, analysts say, by Greece's debt restructuring, where the ECB was treated better than private investors.

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Green Tree Financial found itself in a life-threatening credit squeeze because the market had lost faith in its mortgage-backed securities and refused to refinance its short-term debt.

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