For example, a company with illiquid assets, under a heavy debt burden facing upcoming debt maturities and finding itself unable to refinance, may have to sell off assets at a bad time for less money than it thought those assets were worth.
That's because assets in a child's name, compared with assets in a parent's name, whittle down eligibility for financial aid faster.
With a GRAT, a grantor puts assets into a trust and takes back an annuity payout for typically two to three years.
Here's a joke only an accountant could love: A woman puts her assets in a trust and gives her husband the legal right to decide what to do with those assets--but only after he's dead.
Proxies in place, the team dove into the data and came up with surprising results: Between 2002 and 2007 (the years covered by the database), public firms increased their gross fixed assets (as a percentage of total assets) by 4.0 percent a year on average versus 9.7 percent at similar private firms.
So, so much money sitting in China looking for assets, and there are only a couple of assets you can buy if you're a Chinese citizen.
He sees a possibility that the Federal Reserve might want to, or have to, sell some of its assets at a time when the assets are underwater.
Savings of as little as 0.5% a year of assets could make a big impact on workers' nest eggs.
If you ask -- if you just do an intelligence assessment of assets, as I said, a unidimensional assessment of assets, you come to a pretty clear -- you come to a set of conclusions.
It exceeded a target set in 2010 of boosting assets from continuing operations by 5% a year, but fell well short of another benchmark that would have required a return on those assets of 1.25% to 1.5%.
This could be the case for a sale of personal assets or a home.
All three formulas put aside a certain amount of assets and a certain amount of income in a safe spot.
Knowing your aid outlook is important, because money in a 529 (unlike assets in a 401(k) or IRA) reduces the aid your child is eligible to receive.
The ABC process begins when a debtor company signs a contract assigning its assets to a third-party assignee (like Sherwood), which acts as a fiduciary for the company's creditors.
With a farm, the assets are a primary consideration.
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Gary Lewis, a distressed-assets expert who runs a financial website called scrantonisbroke.blogspot.com, wants the city to consider filing for bankruptcy, which would allow it to restructure its crippling debt and change its expensive labour contracts.
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The energy efficiency tools can be used with a network of assets such as smart meters, smart plugs and building management systems to keep a tab on real-time energy use of corporate assets.
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They are paid eye-popping sums, typically based on a percentage of assets under their management or a percentage of gains.
At DISH's option, Clearwire would also sell or lease up to an additional 2 MHz of Clearwire's spectrum to DISH from a channel that is adjacent to the Spectrum Assets at a price to be calculated in the same manner as the Spectrum Assets.
In recent weeks, talk of a government-created "bad bank" to absorb troubled assets resurfaced as a solution, as did a government insurance program to guarantee assets.
That might pay off for someone managing a billion dollars worth of assets on a full time basis.
Board members decided to go for broke in finding a cure by unleashing those assets in a heroic research push.
The idea here is that having a basket of funds or assets enables a more laissez-faire approach, since risk is being managed through diversification.
On the state level, backdating could involve a breach of fiduciary duty, a waste of corporate assets and even a usurpation of a corporate opportunity.
So who is worth more, a young adult with no assets and a college loan but millions in human capital, or a retired person who has already realized their human capital?
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We can give the client a better feel for what to expect if we saw, for example, a large drawdown of growth assets, a sell-off in the markets or a rising interest-rate environment.
The subsidiary does not recognize gain on the distribution of any appreciated assets to the parent, which is an exception to the general rule of Section 311(b) that treats a corporate distribution of appreciated assets as a sale.
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The bulk of that money is now being raised by forcing losses on large deposit holders as well as bond holders in Laiki bank, which will be split into a bad bank of toxic assets and a remaining viable core business.
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