Asset-based lending and factoring got attention when banks slashed credit lines in the 2008 financial collapse.
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That's because they exclude funds that refuse to pay large asset-based fees to the supermarkets.
They are typically established as unregulated collective investment schemes and have surprisingly similar asset-based and performance-based remuneration.
Asset-based lenders extend loans that are backed by marketable securities, equipment, inventory, accounts receivable and other business assets.
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Total asset-based credit commitments grew 5% in the last year, according to a November 2011 survey by the Commercial Finance Association.
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It was founded by a Canadian EWB overseas volunteer and a Zambian coworker and provides alternative asset-based financing to rural Zambian entrepreneurs.
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Talking through the night, they arrived at a plan for Duke to take over Panenergy and bring the latter's strategy of asset-based trading to the utility.
Talking through the night, they arrived at a plan for Duke to take over Panenergy and bring its strategy of asset-based trading to the North Carolina utility.
The earlier structure also impeded deal-making because the ownership wasn't in one place as a tangible currency and Liberty Entertainment was a tracking stock, rather than asset-based stock.
They could simply buy Marriott stock (which is all this fund invests in), incurring only a brokerage commission, as opposed to a recurring asset-based fee on top of any commission.
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It is common for these funds to charge a performance fee, based on the success they have pursuing their investment strategy, in addition to an asset-based management fee, based on the amount of money provided by investors.
This created a fantastic opportunity for asset-based lenders like Presidential to capture large portions of the market that had been abandoned by traditional small business lenders like banks and credit unions over the last three or four years.
Today, there are many style-based index funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and style-based asset class funds that can be used to create a tilt.
Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
"The cut will not ease volatility on its own, " said one London-based asset manager.
Assumptions about investor risk tolerance implied in age-based asset allocation models are just plain wrong.
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If January rolls around and there still is no deal, Melek said he would look for a broad-based sell-off across asset classes.
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The seller is Howard Marks, the billionaire money manager behind Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based publicly-traded alternative asset management firm.
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Today, this rule-of-thumb is called an age-based asset allocation model.
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There is always debate among investors as to whether style investing using index funds or a style-based asset class fund is an active management strategy or a passive one.
Slim acquired a stake of less than 2% in the New York-based asset management firm, according to the telecom tycoon's spokesman, Arturo Elias Ayub, even though he wouldn't confirm the amount.
The big key to this fund is, it is a rules-based asset allocation methodology, designed and has an objective of producing positive returns, regardless of the condition of the financial market.
Today, the financial planning industry has created a model where the advisor and client sit on the same side of the table with fee-based asset management rather than commissions for trades.
This illustrates radically different approaches to age-based asset allocation.
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Figure 1 compares three age-based asset allocation models.
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That is exactly the kind of thinking and behavior the Japanese government and central bank intended to create by vowing to defeat deflation and reignite the economy through broad-based asset purchases known as quantitative easing.
"We want to make it easier for employees to take action, so that when the day comes, they are better prepared, " says Edmund Murphy III, head of the defined-contribution business at Putnam Investments, a Boston-based asset manager.
Although he had shifted his ownership to Atlantic via a complex Bahamas-based asset swap to minimize disclosure and taxes, Feeney continued to aggressively expand DFS, traveling the globe to conquer new markets, expand margins and outmaneuver rivals.
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Fidelity Investments and American Funds, among the largest in the category, saw redemptions or weak investor interest compared with competitors, according to an analysis of mutual-fund flows done for The Wall Street Journal by research firm Strategic Insight, a unit of New York-based Asset International.
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