On the asset side, one of the portfolios is the funded reserve for grants.
The asset side of the ledger would consist of gold and liquid, secure non-governmental financial claims.
But they would also harm the asset side of insurers' balance sheets, as bond prices fell.
If you have fixed liabilities not doing well on the asset side of your book, that is fatal.
The current action seeks to target the asset side of the balance sheet.
Imagine the potential for trouble monetizing this giant liability side of the balance sheet while selling the asset side to mop up the cash again.
On the asset side, it has 1000 of loans and bonds.
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The critics assume implicitly that all the expansion on the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet is offset by monetary liabilities, which simply isn't true.
And for those funds that still have lots of money in equities, low rates have propped up the stockmarket, boosting the asset side of the equation.
You have a number of problems buying financial assets that you don't have on the hard-asset side, where you can have some control over running those businesses.
That is, the problem is deemed to be giving banks too much discretion on the asset side of the balance sheet, when the liability side is insured.
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Although these sets of tools differ in important respects, they have one aspect in common: They all make use of the asset side of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet.
My baseline is that net household wealth will be on tear over the next few years as the asset side of the ledger pays-in increasing real dividends and the liability side of the ledger pays-out near negative real interest rates.
Furthermore, even by the relatively hygienic standards of most insurers, the asset side of Lloyd's' balance-sheet is squeaky clean, while the toxic claims that brought it to its knees in the 1990s are now parcelled off to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
He saw strong vice presidents of sales and marketing as champions of the asset enhancement side.
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Ferguson had been previously quoted as saying he would not sell his prize asset to Spanish side Real but Hughes believes the Scot would have been fully involved in the decision to offload Ronaldo.
In February last year, with the merger aborted, all change: the private-client and asset-management side had a glowing future, growing faster than the investment bank up to 2003, and with twice the rate of return.
If you are a buy-side or asset management firm in New York and you want to start trading in Asia, you need to be able to route trades to Asia.
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He has admitted asset bubbles are a negative side effect, or a cost as he puts it, of low rates, and has acknowledged savers are getting the short end of the stick.
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He also said the ECB had "decided to start consultations with other European institutions" on measures to promote non-bank lending to companies by trying to revive that side of the asset-backed securities market.
Now the person who needs monitoring is the person who is trading, whether it is a buy-side trader, an asset manager or a hedge fund.
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The survey was conducted by OpenTCA a consortium of major sell-side firms and TradingScreen, a provider of multi-broker and multi-asset class execution management systems (EMS) to the buy side.
On the struggling car side, the most obvious asset is Mitsubishi's 18-year-old factory in Normal, Ill.
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.
Let me quickly mention one of the key side effects that concerns me about very large scale asset purchases: the removal of collateral from the financial system.
In any case, this thought applied to any reasonably constructed index of asset prices reveals that the Federal Reserve is barely on the easy side of neutral, and the European Central Bank has Europe in a death grip.
This would shrink the liability side of the equation and when they found employment in the private sector, add to the asset column.
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