Marsh relies on insurance brokerage for 60% of revenue and two-thirds of operating profit (earnings excluding realized investment gains and losses and other unusual items).
Instead, indices are based on the successful sales of the most coveted items among those collectibles, or even more dubiously, on the appraised value of the most expensive items in that market, which tells you nothing about realized investment gains at all.
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If the investment is realized, the plant will be the first of its kind in the Americas.
The rich especially benefit from two of the biggest: capital gains realized at death and investment earnings of retirement accounts.
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To focus our analysis on actual returns, we looked primarily at companies that achieved first investment and realized an exit in the past decade.
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If an investor's realized return from an investment, net the fees, exceeds what they could get elsewhere, despite having to pay what seems like a higher fee, the investor is happy with his investment and its return.
Since money market rates are low, the interest income from large cash balances is comparably less than the profits that could be realized by, say an investment in new product line.
Resource Capital has not realized a penny from its investment in Molycorp, which aims to produce rare earth minerals (used in things like electric cars, wind turbines and iPods) at a previously shuttered mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
They realized that there would be no exit from their investment if they could not scale it.
"I think everyone realized we're not three-piece-suit investment banker types, " he says.
To stop these risks from being realized, he called for NATO nations to hold the line on defense investment.
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We realized we needed to focus and set measurable impact targets that reflected sound investment thinking and responsible use of financial resources.
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The amount and nature of taxation, whether of the income stream generated by a particular investment, or that levied on interim dividends or capital gains realized upon the disposition of an asset, must be among the many complex factors considered by any rational investor in assessing the relative merits of an investment opportunity.
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While building their new relationship, the three business owners realized that an acquisition would be more prosperous for Pollbob, rather than an investment.
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Mr. Shvo said he decided to scale back even earlier, at the end of 2007, when he realized the market "couldn't sustain" the excess of if real-estate investment.
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