There are three alternative current asset financing policies: aggressive, moderate, and relaxed. A moderate financing policy matches asset and liability maturities. (Of course exact maturity matching is not possible because of (1) the uncertainty of asset lives and (2) some common equity must be used and common equity has no maturity.) With this strategy, the firm minimizes its risk that it will be unable to pay off maturing obligations. An aggressive financing policy occurs when the firm finances all of its fixed assets with long-term capital, but part of its permanent current assets with short-term, nonspontaneous credit. There are degrees of aggressiveness, in fact, a firm could choose to finance all of its permanent current assets and part of its fixed assets with short-term credit; this would be a highly aggressive position, and one that would subject the firm to the dangers of rising interest rates as well as to loan renewal problems. A conservative financing policy occurs when the firm finances all of its permanent asset requirements and some of its seasonal demands with permanent capital. This position is a very safe one. Therefore, an aggressive financing policy uses the greatest amount of short-term debt, while the conservative policy uses the least. The maturity matching policy falls between these two policies.