There is a good chance that the deductions attributable to unproductive land held for investment will be of little or no current benefit.
But in the process of buying the loans and packaging them up, investment banks retain some risk of loss, including accounting items like loans held for sale, loans held for investment, retained interests in the securitizations themselves, and so-called warehouse loans that keep the origination engines at the small mortgage lenders humming.
That compares with 23 times earnings for other publicly held investment managers, and 25 times for the entire market (see table below).
The global equity derivatives division had already lost heavily last July (as, to be fair, had other investment banks), when the British government unexpectedly changed tax rules so that investment banks could no longer claim tax relief on dividends if shares are held for trading rather than investment.
Currently, investors have no financial incentive to invest for the long term returns on investments held for less than a year are taxed as personal income, but capital gain taxe applies unilaterally and equally to any investment held for even a day beyond 365 days.
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Likewise, companies do not have to value at market prices shares in affiliates and subsidiaries that are held for long-term investment purposes.
Even then, low wholesale gas prices held back investment until the government announced tax breaks for the development of new fields in February.
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Lock-ups are the easiest for investors to understand and manage: They are upfront requirements for how long an investment must be held, or how much notice an investor must give before liquidating.
This narrow definition of trading account, with a focus on intent to sell the assets in the next 60 days, would allow JP Morgan to argue that the chief investment office portfolio, classified as held for sale, was not a trading account.
That said, for more than three decades, we at The Prudent Speculator have believed that buying and harvesting a broadly diversified portfolio of undervalued stocks to be held for their long-term appreciation potential is the best investment approach.
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In fact, certain UBS customers with a primary investment objective of income held Non-Traditional ETFs for periods of several months.
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The trustees would then select the investment advisers who would be judged by and held accountable for delivering returns after all fees.
My criteria for selection included funds that held bonds with an average rating of investment grade and at least 5 years of returns.
His word is held in such high esteem that investment banks that structure derivative products for him don't require that he put up a lot of collateral.
The Women's Exhibition for Marketing and Investment is the first of its kind to be held in this deeply conservative country.
Investors who were brave enough to buy ACAS at the beginning of 2010 have seen their investment grow by more than 200%, but for those that bought and held the stock since the beginning of 2008 have had an average annual return of -29% (with dividends reinvested).
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With returns from bonds held back by low interest rates, U.K. insurers are becoming lenders as they look for investment alternatives.
John Buckingham editor of The Prudent Speculator newsletter and Chief Investment Officer of Al Frank Asset Management, has held MSFT in his value oriented portfolios for several years.
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To verify your investment income, an offshore bank may ask for information about your investments and where they are held.
Unlike Trump, whose development business is privately held, and Zeckendorf, who flourished before the real estate investment trust was invented, Zuckerman gets ample equity capital for his projects via share offerings of Boston Properties.
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