Asset Quality Rating
  
Asset Quality Rating is a way to measure the credit risk of an asset, usually those that require payments. In the case of an investment portfolio, the better quality rating will be given to the portfolios with more liquidity and lower cost of the fund itself. The best rating an asset can get is a 1 (always good to be #1, right?) and the worst is a 5.
The 5 isn't necessarily a deal-breaker but means that particular asset really needs to be managed well and has a lot of risk involved...A number-five asset is like a kid coming off the crest of a sugar high.
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that trades Ah lot High volume Lots of buyers Lots
of sellers Liquid lots of cash sloshing this way In
that way Go this way and that Did you ever
see a liquid market go this way and that That
little song Did you ever see a lassie Never mind
All right Weir Liquid markets Good Well because they implied
there's Lots of cash ready willing and able to be
put to work And that's usually a sign of a
healthy risk seeking active market versus risk averse one which
is you know hiding Ah liquid market means that investors
want to put their cash toe work that they have
actually saved cash along the way and or that they
have relatively easy access to credit And you can think
about it from the perspective of your kindly loving realtor
who wants a world where lots of people are buying
homes But in orderto have that happen you have to
have lots of people who are also selling homes at
the same time Otherwise prices just go higher and higher
with no supply to meet demand And at the end
of the day in real estate and it's in the
stock market while the most important thing yes that the
brokers get pays So that's a liquid market one that
trades a lot like it's Wet trading back and for
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