positionnement de type barbell

English translation: barbell position

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French term or phrase:	positionnement de type barbell
English translation:	barbell position
Entered by:	Maciej Andrzejczak

22:44 Jan 31, 2009

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Bus/Financial - Finance (general)

French term or phrase: positionnement de type barbell

An excerpt of a financial paper

En termes de positionnement, si nous recommandions les marchés européens au début de 2005, les marchés anglo-saxons offrent des perspectives meilleures cette année, principalement du fait de leur avance en matière de cycle économique et monétaire. Un positionnement de type barbell, en privilégiant les parties frontale et très longue se justifie toujours en Europe (zone euro et Suisse) et au Canada, dans un contexte de poursuite du resserrement monétaire, alors qu’un positionnement sur les segments intermédiaires prendra tout son sens sur les marchés anglo-saxons (Royaume-Uni et Australie, dès maintenant, Etats-Unis dans une deuxième phase). Du côté crédit, si nous considérons toujours qu’il existe certaines poches de valeur (Europe convergente, certains marchés émergents), nous recommandons de maintenir un profil prudent. Il nous faudra faire preuve de flexibilité et d’opportunisme dans un monde où le risque nous semble plus que jamais sous-estim

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barbell position

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I have no idea but I googled barbell position and got this:

The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling: Applications for Capital ... - Google Books Resultby Thomas S. Y. Ho, Sang Bin Lee, Sang-bin Yi - 2004 - Business & Economics - 735 pages
A Barbell Trade A barbell position refers to buying bond positions with short-term bonds and long-term bonds while selling medium-term bonds such that the ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=019516962X...

If you think of it, a barbell has weights at each extremity - so I suppose that is the analogy. At the each extreme but not in the middle.

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At each extreme - at each end

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