According to the Straits Times newspaper, the Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Company has said that the giant metal nest is raking in tens of millions of dollars each year from tourism.
If you have no idea what kind of assets the fund or management company is investing in or if you can't tell from your statement, that's not a good sign.
Deals struck at the peak of the market comprise about a quarter of KKR's private-equity assets under management, while the company's efforts to diversify have yet to make much of an impact.
Last year, Wisdom Tree saw a 42 percent increase in new money flows as a percent of assets under management, greater than any other fund company, according to Morgan Stanley Research.
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Instead, each company wants to build its assets under management.
Renacci, who founded the healthcare company LTC Management Services, lists assets in five individual funds, each of which contains investment funds, and holdings at the state and municipal level, as well as corporations.
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The formula: have management borrow money against the assets and cash flow of a company, and use that money to buy a controlling stake of it.
And analysts say it is important that the assets handed over are protected from any legal action if the fund management company gets into difficulty.
"In many parts of the country, water is absolutely more valuable than gold, " says fish habitat and water consultant Shannon Skelton, who runs CFI Global Fisheries Management, a company that helps landowners manage their water assets.
My assumption is that at some point in the coming weeks, Verizon will make an offer to Vodafone to buy this stake - and may also make its offer known, because it may believe that Vodafone's shareholders would put pressure on Vodafone's management to crystallise the valuation of the company's assets.
How a company is structured, its physical locations and assets, its management, its ability to efficiently finance its operations, and its dividend policy all factor into performance.
Another company, Black Diamond Capital Management, purchased GSC Group's assets, including Oreck, out of bankruptcy in 2011.
The contribution that four important intangible assets--reputation, innovation, management and human capital--make to a company's market value is deemed to be its corporate brand value.
However, the company is now realigning its asset base, revamping management and selling non-core assets.
In an interview posted on the BAA Web site, the chief expressed his belief in the company's "great assets" along with a robust growth of businesses, and strong management.
The company says it gives its clients' interest top priority, and may reduce its assets under management, restrain its growth, reduce its fees or otherwise change its terms even in circumstances where other firms might feel such actions are unnecessary.
Entering the asset-management business in Europe and the U.S. could help to expand its horizons there, and will push overall assets under management close to the total held by Nomura Asset Management, the biggest Japanese money manager, the company said.
In March, the company, which has come under new management, tried to beef up its funds by selling its assets to the Halifax.
That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
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