Jan 13, 2006 19:09
18 yrs ago
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Top Quality Financial Translations
Native in: Italian 
Works in: German to Italian, English to Italian
Does the sentence between **** sound right?
English
Bus/Financial
Finance (general)
bond market
The fund ran an overall short duration relative to its benchmark which had a negative impact. ***But contribution from our overweight in A and AA rated bonds as credit did well against BBB's spreads had a positive impact***.
Do you think the English in this phrase is correct?
It is part of a fund report I am translating, and I find it awkward and difficult to understand. Is it just me?
Do you think the English in this phrase is correct?
It is part of a fund report I am translating, and I find it awkward and difficult to understand. Is it just me?
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+3
14 mins
Marian Greenfield
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English
Specializes in field
Over 30 years in financial translation
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English, English
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word order and punctuation are a mess!!!!
Hi Laura!!!!! Nice to "see" you.
As worded the sentence makes no sense. There may be something missing, but it might just be punctuation problems or word order... I suspect it should go something like this:
ut contribution from our overweight in A and AA rated bonds had a positive impact, as credit did well against BBB's spreads
As worded the sentence makes no sense. There may be something missing, but it might just be punctuation problems or word order... I suspect it should go something like this:
ut contribution from our overweight in A and AA rated bonds had a positive impact, as credit did well against BBB's spreads
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
33 mins
David Knowles
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English
Works in field
Specialist in Civil Law & Contracts
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, English, Ukrainian to English
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20
Try this!
***But we were overweight in A- and AA-credit rated bonds, which did well against BBB's spreads, and contributed to a positive impact***.
The point is that they should not have had as many A and AA bonds as they had, but they got lucky and they did well.
The point is that they should not have had as many A and AA bonds as they had, but they got lucky and they did well.
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Jack Doughty
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Thanks Jack - not easy to make sense of this one!
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Andrey Belousov (X)
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+1
17 mins
William [Bill] Gray
Norway
Norway
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English
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Norway
Working with words
Native in: English
Works in: English, Norwegian to English, Danish to English, and 1 more.
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3
see variation below...
The fund ran an overall short duration relative to its benchmark which had a negative impact. ***But our overweight in A and AA rated bonds as credit did well against BBB's spreads, and contributed to a positive impact***.
This is not my field of expertise; I can only try to reconstruct the language!
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Note added at 16 hrs 48 mins (2006-01-14 11:58:05 GMT)
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Let me try and rephrase this, because I have a real problem with Marian's offer (not least her opening swing : "word order and punctuation are a mess"!)
We had too many A and AA-rated bonds as credit
Our BBB's were too spread.
But we got lucky, and the A's and AA's did well, and contributed to a positive impact.
This is not my field of expertise; I can only try to reconstruct the language!
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Note added at 16 hrs 48 mins (2006-01-14 11:58:05 GMT)
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Let me try and rephrase this, because I have a real problem with Marian's offer (not least her opening swing : "word order and punctuation are a mess"!)
We had too many A and AA-rated bonds as credit
Our BBB's were too spread.
But we got lucky, and the A's and AA's did well, and contributed to a positive impact.
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Romanian Translator (X)
34 mins
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Thank you!
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Richard Benham
: I think Marian's version comes a lot closer.
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Thanks for commenting, but please see my new comment above.
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