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Cohen & Steers’ Cordes also sees better value in the institutional preferreds, especially what are known as contingent capital securities, or cocos.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Castelluccio lentils and dried beans are in stock, from smooth white cocos to speckled borlotti.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

The hullabaloo at Deutsche, along with the poor performance of European banks more broadly, seems to have prompted a broader reassessment of the riskiness of cocos, argues James Chappell of Berenberg, a bank.

From Economist • Feb. 11, 2016

Among his favorite investments are convertible contingent bonds, or cocos.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

Their fruits be divers and plentiful; as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, figu, sagu, with divers other sorts.

From Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Pretty, Francis