underwrite
Example Sentences
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“Long-term performance is the result of underwriting rigor, disciplined portfolio construction and careful balance sheet management. After all, private credit is still just credit.”
Nobody wants to hear it, but success would mean underwriting many procurement experiments and some systems that don’t pan out.
Private-credit managers have defended the fees, saying that it takes more time and effort to underwrite hundreds of private loans than to evaluate public securities, and that investors should focus on returns, not fees.
From Barron's
The analyst believes Affirm will be able to adapt underwriting to macroeconomic and geopolitical shorts due to the short duration of its loans, which span weeks to months.
From Barron's
Translated to the screen, her already underwritten — and always strangely named — characters look even less like real humans with real motivations.
From Salon
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