Looking at returns on assets and equity between 1996 and 2003, they conclude that the profitability of local banks serving single rural markets was dented by the presence of more broadly based competitors.
The company actually gets smaller, because it has less assets and less equity. (Compared to LInked-In, for example, that grew larger by selling shares and increasing its cash asset.) Over time the cash disappears, and the equity disappears.
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Company data such as return on assets and return on equity are analyzed with respect to trends in their own performance, and relative to industry averages.
They told us that SCF was based not on forbidden interest and speculative paper assets, but profits through equity participation and sound investing in real assets.
Return on Assets and Return on Equity have steadily declined since 1965.
Ping An and other insurers are also expected to benefit when China's insurance regulator allows them to place more of their investments into higher-yielding assets like equity and property.
Those goals are expected to be similar to ones outlined in a new executive compensation plan that grades performance based on return on assets and tangible common equity, the people said.
Though it slightly underperforms its domestic peer group in return on assets and return on equity, Popular's earnings per share are growing faster (15.3% vs. 12.7% compound annual growth over the last five years).
We forecast earnings in the sales and trading division by looking at the assets deployed in the equity and debt markets and the yield the bank earns on this capital.
In 2008, Ventas accelerated its balance sheet and liquidity improvement by raising equity, selling assets and increasing bank lines of credit.
The mix of your investments should include publicly traded fixed income and equity assets such as investment grade bonds, preferred stock and common stock.
Energy Transfer is split into two publicly traded entities: Energy Transfer Partners, which holds the assets, and Energy Transfer Equity, which operates ETP for a fee and also holds a 39% share in ETP.
Analysts at Panmure Gordon Co. said it was plausible that Kraft Foods might team up with a private equity firm to buy Cadbury and divide the assets between them, with Kraft getting the confectionary business and the private equity fund getting the company's stable and profitable beverage unit.
Analysts at Panmure Gordon Co. said it was plausible that Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ) might team up with a private equity firm to buy Cadbury and divide the assets between them, with Kraft getting the confectionary business and the private equity fund getting the company's stable and profitable beverage unit.
He wants hedge funds and private equity firms to buy those assets and free the economy.
Another rationale for the move into alternative assets (as hedge funds and private equity are known) is that returns are uncorrelated with those on other assets.
And insurers face lower returns on investments in alternative assets, such as hedge funds and private equity.
Now we have 933 billion of liabilities, 1, 137 billion of assets, and 204 billion of equity.
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Mellon earns a better return on equity and assets than either, but they have faster-growing earnings.
In the last two quarters, returns on equity, assets and investment have exceeded prerecession levels.
Savings funds have a rising appetite for less liquid, higher-risk assets such as private equity and property.
Instead, life companies bought risky assets, such as equity and property, intending to sell policies to firms in which they held stakes.
The North American Distressed Debt Market Outlook 2011, a survey of 100 experienced distressed debt investors released by Debtwire, Macquarie Capital and Bingham McCutchen, found that these investors will move their cash from energy to real estate assets and from first and second-lien loans to common equity and convertible bonds.
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The increase in margins is supported by increase in premiums due to the implementation of the new variable annuity products and increase in fee income due to increases in average assets under management resulting from improvements in equity markets and increased deposit activity as equity market improvements created an environment where investors were willing to re-enter the capital markets.
Such banks might be looking to sell assets rather than refinance them, which spells opportunities for private equity players and hedge funds hunting for distressed assets.
But money invested in "alternative assets" like private equity (and venture capital) would see expected returns of 14%-16%.
They long since moved into alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity, and have reaped handsome returns.
Yet another provision reduces your exemption if in the ten years before bankruptcy, you attempted to defraud creditors by liquidating nonexempt assets and pumping the cash into home equity.
To make matters worse, plans are increasing their high risk bets by loading up on hard-to-value assets, such as private equity and hedge funds, in a desperate attempt to close their funding gaps.
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As investors remain wary of risk involved in equity and commodity assets in the short term, Berkshire Hathaway sage Warren Buffett is in India, where he advised investors to stay out of long-term dollar-bound bonds, according to Bloomberg.
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