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09:41 Nov 21, 2009
English to French translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / funds
English term or phrase: drawndown funds
finance and banking
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Summary of answers provided
5cut back funds, funds being cut back...reduction,
kolya
4décaissement (de fonds )xxxwfarkas
4fonds en baisse/baissiers
François Begon


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cut back funds, funds being cut back...reduction,


Explanation:

You will often here to this a fund's max draw down over 5 years or max drawdown since inception. Some great low volatility funds will have max draw downs of only 3, 5, or 7% while others will have 10 or 20% drawdown figures. Sometimes this is due to the nature of their strategy, other times it can show that they have slipped at least once in moving the portfolio out of harms way or building in certain stop losses or hedged positions. All of this depends on the strategy at hand.

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Note added at 14 mins (2009-11-21 09:55:55 GMT)
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also in Banking; as in;" . To activate or borrow against a Line of Credit.
Bank customer's instructions to transfer funds to another bank, as when a corporation transfers temporarily idle funds into a Concentration Account for reinvestment at market interest rates.

3. Periodic advance of funds to a developer, as authorized by the terms of a construction loan.
ALSO:" Deplete by consuming or spending, as in The government worries about drawing down our oil reserves. "
A drawdown—also called a voucher—is a request for payment against a grantee’s line of credit for services performed in support of one or more activities. Grantees draw funds as required to pay for work that has occurred for an activity"

used links for examples:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/systems/idis/training/
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/systems/idis/training/

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Note added at 16 mins (2009-11-21 09:58:04 GMT)
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Please advise me if there are other meanings that I don't know and did not mention. I would appreciate that. Thank you. Kolya

Example sentence(s):
  • You will often here to this a fund's max draw down over 5 years or max drawdown since inception. Some great low volatility funds will have max draw downs of only 3, 5, or 7% while others will have 10 or 20% drawdown figures. Sometimes this is due to the
  • nature of their strategy, other times it can show that they have slipped at least once in moving the portfolio out of harms way or building in certain stop losses or hedged positions. All of this depends on the strategy at hand.

    Reference: http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/drawdown.html
kolya
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in Farsi (Persian)Farsi (Persian)

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neutral  xxxwfarkas: Drawing on my own experience as a former lending officer with a major financial institution, DRAWDOWN=DISBURSEMENT of loan proceeds.
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fonds en baisse/baissiers


Explanation:
Drawndown = en baisse pour la Bourse

François Begon
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
décaissement (de fonds )


Explanation:
Retrait de fonds mis à la disposition d'un emprunteur par une institution financière ou par un organisme de crédit, dans le cadre d'une convention de crédit .

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