Liquidity: Perhaps the most important feature of bond funds versus individual issues is liquidity the ability to exit a particular asset quickly and efficiently.
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But when a collective judgment is reached that a particular asset class has been bid up too high, dollars are pulled and the asset class shrinks in value.
If a particular asset class, strategy or fund has done extremely well for three or four years, we know one thing with certainty: We should have invested three or four years ago.
The first very minor one is that the only real legal meaning of a credit rating refers to how much capital a bank has to allocate to a holding in a particular asset.
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One investment risk that may not be obvious to most investors is that of over allocating to a particular asset class or industry sector that is highly correlated to the industry or company where one is employed.
Note that, in warning against excessive concentrations or common exposures across the banking system, regulators need not make a judgment about whether a particular asset class is mispriced--although rapid changes in asset prices or risk premiums may increase the level of concern.
Gold has always been a very particular asset class.
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For example, such an exercise might suggest that a sharp change in asset prices would not only affect the value of a particular firm's holdings but also impair liquidity in key markets, with adverse consequences for the ability of the firm to adjust its risk positions or obtain funding.
This means that they issue and redeem units or shares directly with investors on a regular basis, based on the net asset value of the units or shares on a particular day.
Unlike their ETF predecessors, which typically provided passive exposure to a particular index of stocks, bonds or other asset class, this fund changes its weightings (in other ETFs) based on momentum in the market.
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Option-writing, an activity that insures the purchaser against asset-price movements, creates a particular danger.
Whether the gross domestic product is rising briskly or not at all is immaterial if a particular company is priced at less than its readily ascertainable net asset value.
Levinsohm is a particular strong choice with his background in digital ads an asset that Thompson and Carol Bartz did not have.
Most advisers will tell you to diversify distribute investment capital across various asset classes, each of which may behave differently at a particular time.
That means, in particular, making China see that a tinderbox it has long regarded as a strategic asset has become an appalling liability.
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Whither Japan has as a particular interest in Japanese financial institutions and companies banks, securities firms, insurance companies, asset managers, consumer finance, and leasing companies.
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The amount and nature of taxation, whether of the income stream generated by a particular investment, or that levied on interim dividends or capital gains realized upon the disposition of an asset, must be among the many complex factors considered by any rational investor in assessing the relative merits of an investment opportunity.
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In particular, the low insider interest may mean that stocks are not trading at a good discount to their net asset value, or there are poor earnings prospects in the view of company directors.
The story quotes CASH Asset Management director Patrick Yiu noting that China Unicom has seen no particular boost to earnings after signing a three-year deal with Apple in 2009.
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For a car or home you still owe a partial amount on, just subtract the amount you owe from the total value to get the worth of that particular asset.
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