Bank of America, through its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, is now the world's largest asset manager, with most of its core assets in the United States.

美国银行通过对美林证券的收购成为了目前世界上管理资产额最大的银行，其核心资产几乎都集中在美国。

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And we see a direct benefit of that — namely, the attrition in our technical people since the acquisition has been very, very low, and that's a huge asset.

我们看到了它所带来的直接的好处 — 也就是，自从合并以来我们的技术人员的流失变得非常非常的少，这可是一笔巨大的财富。

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That goal is to allocate the acquisition cost of a long-lived asset to expense over the years in which the asset contributes to revenue.

那目的就是将长期资产的获取成本在该资产产生收益的各年度中分配到费用账户中去。

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While Telmex appears as a slow growth, possibly declining asset, the acquisition is part of a strategic group to face increased competition from Grupo Televisa, which has been poaching fixed-line customers.

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But the Fed has not told us when it will begin to normalize its balance sheet, and the expectation is that it will further expand its asset acquisition and influence the allocation of credit.

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Some have been quite big, such as the acquisition, over 20 years, of a string of ever larger asset-management companies.

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