Emerging-market assets make up only 2.1% of all money invested in American equity mutual funds.
Analysts said that this may lead to a investors being less willing to buy emerging market assets.
Mitsui's goal is to reduce the proportion of its home-market assets to 70% of its total portfolio, from about 90% currently.
On top of all this, the FDIC and other bank regulators recently issued a policy statement declaring that banks, which hold about one-third of money market assets, should not "create an expectation that the bank will prop up" their own money market funds in the event of a breaking-the-buck incident.
Indeed, Fitch Ratings issued a report in June concluding that 50% of all prime money market fund assets were invested in European banks!
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The government will run auctions between the banks selling the assets and the investors buying them, hoping to effectively create a market for these assets.
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ETFs account for more than 13% of all mutual fund assets (excluding money market funds), and assets have more than doubled since 2008, according to Michael Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar.
Marking assets to market with bond holders taking a hair cut would relieve toxic assets from balance sheets.
The shift highlights both the improving macroeconomic conditions and the overcrowded and overpriced market for prime assets, CBRE said.
We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
The build-up in excess reserves reduced the money creation that would normally have accompanied net open market purchases of assets.
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It would also improve market liquidity for assets eligible as security for central-bank money, to the benefit of overall financial stability.
Banks are more reluctant to see their customers fail than they were when there was a ready market for the assets they hold as security.
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It can be done, but it takes huge open market purchases of assets to move the economy much once the Fed funds rate is more or less at zero.
First, there is no need for the Fed to mark to market since its assets are not held for trading and can easily be held to maturity or recovery if necessary.
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Plus, there is no secondary market for these assets, so "you're toast if you need to sell" before the properties are ultimately resold, says Brandon Balkman, executive director of the Real Estate Investment Securities Association, a trade group.
Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
Others will make bigger adjustments, putting some assets needed for short-term expenses in safe investments like money-market accounts while leaving assets for long-term expenses in riskier investments like stocks.
Finally, Aris claims that the hedge fund management firm has continued to get its management fee of 2% on assets that Guerra has been inflating by rejecting asset sales that would reveal the fair market value of the assets on its books.
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The secondary market for private equity assets appears to have strengthened radically this fall, along with the dramatic rise of the stock market and as non-traditional players have emerged as interested buyers in the secondary market for private equity fund stakes.
This could cause them to remain in the market too long, thus losing the opportunity to protect assets prior to a market drop.
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Its holdings include funds indexed to the total U.S. stock market (about 72% of assets) and total U.S. bond market (about 10%), along with three international index funds.
Under mark-to-market, banks value assets as if they were going to sell them now.
It all depends on how much capital was reduced by marking assets to market.
US-64, with 20m investors, has never had to declare daily the market value of its assets.
US-64 does not, therefore, declare the market value of its assets each day.
And since they mark all their assets to market, Morgan and Goldman may have felt the worst of their pain.
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Romer knows that the Fed operates by buying and selling assets at market prices, creating and extinguishing dollars in the process.
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