Floating-rate securities, securities with puts, securities where, if certain things happened, a sinking fund kicked in.
The sinking fund continued in operation through the Napoleonic wars, though in an increasingly bizarre fashion.
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Pitt instead created a sinking fund, using tax revenue to buy back bonds in the market.
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Most tobacco bonds have a so-called turbo structure (rather like a sinking fund).
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This seemingly impossible scheme works, thanks to a sinking fund that compensates lenders if the two indexes go in opposite directions.
The process reverses if inflation heats up again, but that's when the sinking fund kicks in to make up the difference.
When the British won a battle, investors anticipated the day that the government would stop issuing new bonds and turn to buying old ones via the sinking fund.
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Hicks and Southridge Capital were the subject of a 2002 Forbes article (see "Sinking Fund") on death spiral preferred financings that also detailed the work of Mark Valentine, former chairman of Canadian brokerage Thomson Kernaghan.
What could be more foolish that sinking your emergency fund into stocks and then find that you need it and have to sell off your investment at a particularly bad time in the market?
Marc Kaufmann, the previous manager of the Select Electronics fund thought that the sinking memory prices of 1996 presaged a rocket PC market.
In the final hours of the conference, the governments of small, sinking island nations were delighted to learn that they, and not some global body, would control a fund to help them adapt to a warming world.
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His Palomino fund was up 13.3% net of fees through the first half of the year, after sinking 5.09% in 2011.
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