The deal would be "a way in which Bear could have a local partner without extended capital risk, " wrote David Trone, an analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton, in a research note Monday.
They are less likely to own stocks and shares than Americans, even though some are assiduous savers against a rainy day (three-quarters of all French household financial assets are free from capital risk).
Really early-stage science projects that have a lot of materials science risk or long-term capital intensity risk are going to be tougher to fund.
First, they want to build statistical models mapping the severity and frequency of past operational risk losses and use this to judge the amount of the bank's capital at risk from operational failures in the future.
Enforcement will be the real challenge, assuming that all the cumbersome legislation goes forward on financial conglomerates, pensions, new capital-adequacy rules, risk capital for small businesses, clearing and settlement, accounting standards and insolvency rules.
She has no capital at risk (obviously) and pays the ordinary income tax rate.
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The report also noted that Raymond James Bank's ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets was a healthy 10.2%.
Taxes take away the financial incentive to invest and put capital at risk, for lower or no returns.
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Mr Miles said that the optimal ratio of core tier one equity capital to risk-weighted assets would be 19%.
If you put your investment capital to work in the financial markets you are exposing that capital to risk.
Market makers traders who put their capital at risk to provide bids and offers are increasingly being replaced by order-matching systems.
In the real world, bankers must put their own capital at risk, and governments do not cover all losses.
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In this case, is the personal guarantee considered capital at risk?
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Blue Nile adopted a virtual model, in which it provides a shop window for suppliers yet does not put any of its own capital at risk.
From a text book perspective, Basel III requires banks to hold 4.5% of common equity, Basel II requires 6% of Tier I capital of risk-weighted assets.
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But in the case of Orange County, says Tanya Beder of Capital Market Risk Advisers, which investigated the affair, the financial products involved were fairly straightforward.
Capital equals risk equals a cost of doing business and the more of it you can offload on the other guy, the more profitable you will be.
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People who work in the business maintain that carried interest is investment income, but most of the capital at risk is that of investors, not their own.
Again, merely comes down to who has capital at risk.
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Many analysts from investment firms like Nomura Securities and RBC Capital Markets have been warning about capital flight risk out of peripheral European countries since late last year.
And since there is no capital at risk for the GP if a fund loses money, the risk of default on the debt is borne solely by the LPs.
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These buyers and sellers also include ticket brokers, who as market makers put their own capital at risk over the course of the long and sometimes winding, sports seasons.
This is a form of heightened scrutiny, though informal and less severe than some other options, and looks at a bank's capital and risk management, loan quality and liquidity.
They began to put their capital at risk on behalf of their clients, taking the other side of deals when pension funds and insurance companies wanted to rearrange their portfolios.
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Specialists at the NYSE, individuals who are assigned stocks and whose function it is to make orderly markets by putting their own firms' capital at risk, have been especially battered in the image wars.
Mutual fund sales have slowed somewhat, but the public now has more of its savings capital at risk than at the peak of 1972, when the Nifty Fifty were comparably priced to the Nifty Twenty today.
Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).
Higher tax rates on capital gains would flatten the uptrend in risk capital and bonk this boom, too.
For risk-based capital purposes, the risk weights for Treasury securities and other securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, government agencies, and government-sponsored entities will not change.
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