When the price of a financial asset rises, demand generally increases.
To satisfy demand, asset managers have been busy rolling out new alternative products specifically designed for non-accredited investors hedge funds and managed futures inside mutual fund wrappers, for instance.
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Banks may not have enough safe assets of their own to satisfy widespread demand from asset managers, pension funds and the like, so they may seek to broker deals with others.
In response to foreign institutional demand, some asset management companies are refocusing on Japan.
The good news for the dollar is that dollar-debt, such as money market funds and Treasury bonds, are the most liquid, hotly traded, high demand fixed income asset in the world.
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Market tops in the U.S. stock indexes would mean less investor monies flowing into stocks, which would also suggest increased investor and trader demand in other asset classes, such as gold and silver.
In our view, Och-Ziff offers favorable long-term growth prospects, as inflows are beginning to accelerate and the company starts to benefit from increased secular demand for alternative asset managers with consistently strong performance records.
At Ventas, we are at the very attractive crossroads of providing retiring baby boomers who want income a valuable security, and at the same time our asset classes all show increasing demand from an aging U.S. demographic.
Broadly, instead of using simple supply and demand, it explains changes in the demand for one asset (a small silver coin, say) relative to another (a large coin) in terms of changes in the rate of return that the holder of the assets can expect from each.
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China demand is seen driving up asset prices for everything from soybeans to Louis Vuitton handbags.
With supply shrinking, the modest increase in new inflows to the asset class had an outsized impact on demand.
Greenspan's failure is history now, but we should demand that the Fed take asset bubbles more seriously in the future.
Gold market bulls have been somewhat irritated that the yellow metal, which is itself considered a safe-haven asset, has not seen stronger investor demand amid the latest escalation in the EU debt crisis.
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Gold market bulls have been frustrated recently that the yellow metal, which is itself considered a safe-haven asset, has not seen stronger investor demand amid the latest escalation in the EU debt crisis.
Rather than try to create a global reserve asset, reformers might achieve more by reducing the demand for reserves.
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Perhaps the main risk now facing emerging Asia is not feeble demand in the West but inflation or asset-price bubbles at home.
Still, it should be stressed that a major reason Countrywide and other mortgage outfits were able to expand so rapidly, particularly in the new millennium, had to do with the fact that outside of Fannie and Freddie, there was great demand for the loans made toward an asset the value of which was rising.
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What would United States negotiators demand if the Golan Heights were an American asset?
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Money will slosh in and out, driving underdeveloped local asset markets up and down and affecting the level of demand in the real economy.
Despite being a safe-haven asset, the gold market is not presently seeing fresh demand due to the escalation in the European Union sovereign debt crisis.
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Then, excess demand resulted in higher inflation, huge current-account deficits and rampant asset-price inflation.
Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.
We also believe that ultimately the various structural factors negatively affecting demand outside Brazil will continue to manifest themselves, despite the recent improvement in asset markets.
Agreeing that more asset purchases may lower interest rates, there was a question mark surrounding whether it boosted overall consumer demand or not.
The securities lending business is an essential source of revenue for asset managers like BlackRock and its competitors including State Street and Legg Mason, driven by a high demand in the global market.
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The Wonacott article cast considerable doubt on the authenticity of this asset transfer and prompted the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to demand an investigation of the matter in a letter to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on 20 October.
Asset sales are an attractive way of cleaning up the public balance-sheet without doing anything that further chokes demand.
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