1 Inflation erodes the value of bonds' fixed-income payments.

2 When stocks drop, shift some of your fixed-income assets into an equities fund.

3 Fixed-income, currency, and commodities trading revenue fell nearly 70 percent from the third quarter.

4 For fixed-income fund managers who invest outside their domestic market, the performance of the currency in which those bonds are denominated can be key to how the investments fare.

5 Good capital preservation fund should be a fixed-income and earnings power is much stronger than the rights and interests of the fund balance.

6 The optimal incentive payment scheme contains five components:fixed-income, informational rent, risk compensation, incentive compensation and the managers'market price.

7 A cool economy keeps inflation from eating into the value of fixed-income securities.

8 The fund manages about 9. 5 billion pounds in fixed-income securities.

9 A cut in interest rates can help stocks by making them more attractive to investors than fixed-income securities.

10 At Dallas-based Richmont,(www.Sentencedict.com) he will oversee the management of about $ 350 million in fixed-income assets.

11 During the year the bank actually had 12. 18 billion pesetas in capital gains from its fixed-income portfolio.

12 Reports showing heartier growth will weaken investors' appetite for fixed-income securities, he said.

13 You can hardly avoid the dreaded word anymore if you venture into the fixed-income realm.

14 The Fed's program should 'relieve a fair amount of the pressure on the commercial paper market, ' says Ajay Rajadhyaksha, head of fixed-income research at Barclays Capital.

15 Under ordinary circumstances, rising interest rates send bond prices moving in the opposite direction, hurting investors who depend on fixed-income holdings for some of their income.

16 'I think there is a logic both for share buybacks, and an attraction to being very competitive with fixed-income instruments here if we increase our yield,' he says.

17 A mixture of investments including stocks from various industries, bonds and other fixed-income investments is the way to provide maximum growth while securing your investment funds for the future.

18 The ravenous market appetite for long-dated assets spread across the fixed-income asset spectrum.

19 He got a job in New York as a fixed-income trader in 2000, and later raised money to invest in new markets and help develop avenues for investments.

20 For investors taking long Treasury positions, stronger economic growth, if accompanied by inflation, is a key risk because inflation erodes the value of fixed-income securities.

21 China Life would also this year increase its investment in bonds and other fixed-income assets while reducing investment in stocks because of expected equity market volatility, Mr Liu said.