The Dubai state investment agency planned to sell some properties in London and New York and redeploy some capital to real estate in Asia, its chief investment officer, Yu Lai Boon, said this month.
But as their empires grew, so did the need to raise cash and lock in some capital gains -- and go public.
Most large institutional investors who hold investment grade government debt do so in order to generate income for their investors, and maybe get some capital gains out of it as well.
Some of the money is for scholarships to students who have worked in community development projects, and some is seed capital for students who want to try to help out in poorer neighborhoods around Tufts.
Democrats want to remove the bequest exemption from the capital-gains tax law, and some Republicans want to reduce capital-gains rates anyway.
Sadr City, the scene of Tuesday's deadly blast, is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and where some of the capital's most intense fighting in recent months has occurred between Shiite militia members and Iraqi security forces.
The course, which starts in southeast London, wends through the Canary Wharf business district and passes by some of the capital's most famous landmarks, including Tower Bridge and Westminster, before finishing near Buckingham Palace.
The 26.2 mile course, which starts in southeast London, wends through the Canary Wharf business district and passes by some of the capital's most famous landmarks, including Tower Bridge and Westminster, before finishing near Buckingham Palace.
And some of the increased capital outflow was expected, to repay expiring corporate bonds.
You would lose all of that difference, and then some, just in transactions costs and capital gains taxes.
They do not have real land titles, only the right to demand some land and capital upon leaving the enterprise.
The bursting of the housing bubble has led to hefty credit losses: most Western financial institutions are short of capital and some are insolvent.
Zell raised some capital and merged Covanta with a Zell-controlled entity.
The slightly unconventional ways in which Greenblatt calculates earnings yield and return on capital also involve some good common sense and are particularly interesting given the recent credit crisis.
Many banks have taken steps, over the course of the last few months, to shore up their balance sheets by selling businesses and raising some of that capital that they need themselves.
Some of this was the result of rising costs for production and capital expenditures, with some disappointments in earnings, he said.
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Also, as I mentioned last Friday, Royal Bank of Scotland has what is known as contingent capital, or a contractual arrangement with the Treasury that it can call on taxpayers again for capital in a crisis - and this contingent capital should in some ways be seen by regulators as helping RBS to meet the new capital requirements (because future taxpayer help is guaranteed).
We've seen job postings for immediate hires up 40% on 2009 and vacancies in some sectors such as venture capital, private equity and consumer products up by as much as 70%.
But the regulators--those who oversee banks at the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC--have to take an aggressive approach in making sure that bank and insurance company regulatory capital is stabilized and perhaps, with some creativity, even increased from the unnecessary writedowns of the last year.
Special-purpose vehicles usually are formed to move assets off a company's balance sheet to help avoid some regulatory scrutiny and capital requirements.
VCs usually limit their involvement to the CEO decision, and some firms, such as Kleiner Perkins and ff Venture Capital, are known for maintaining a keiretsu of operating talent to deploy within their portfolios.
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Even before the operation began, in fact, simply the news of the pending arrival of additional troops had a positive impact on the ground, as various extremist groups abandoned their positions in the capital and in some cases fled the country.
Having said that, what is also true is that unless businesses and global capital markets have some sense that we've got a plan, medium and long term, to get the deficit down, it's hard for us to be credible, and that also could be counterproductive.
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As the hard disk drive and drive component companies start to get back into their factories to access the damage there will undoubtedly be a lot of facility cleanup and repair and likely replacement of some expensive capital equipment particularly when this equipment was on the first floor of a flooded building.
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If you already own Diageo and you have a long time horizon (and Sizemore Capital does own Diageo in some client accounts), I think it is reasonable to hold on and reinvest your dividends.
Schroer's fund, invested largely in pharmaceuticals and biotech, is up 35% so far this year on the strength of some good venture-capital investments and investor excitement over the potential genomic revolution.
Of course, defaulting countries will want at some stage to return to the capital markets, and the option that they will at some point start paying the coupons on their bonds is worth something.
The London Marathon route, which is lined by hundreds of thousands of spectators every year, starts in Blackheath and finishes near Buckingham Palace, passing some of the capital's most recognisable landmarks including Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf and Big Ben.
Some speculate that Ispat and other capital intensive manufacturers will be relegated to the status of being the low-margin drones of others' supply chains.
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