Children's Health holds more fixed income to back capital project debt
Christy Hamilton · Christie Hamilton – Tweeting on Allocation at Children's Health (Capital Allocators, EP.124) · Mar 9, 2020 · at 17:45
Christy Hamilton, Head of Investments at Children's Health, explains how hospital capital project debt and balance sheet requirements drive higher fixed income allocations.
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“Being a hospital, one of the things that we kind of go through in the enterprise review is we issue debt for capital projects, so, you know, that's actually really important because these assets back up in a lot of instances the debt issuance, and so we typically have more fixed income.”
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