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Among hedge funds, Google was also the top holding, according to the report, which examined investments at the end of the fourth quarter for the largest funds by asset size.
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Noting that average employment per firm seems to have been trending up and that the largest 50 firms increased their asset size as a share of GDP from 70 percent to nearly 130 percent since 1996, The Economist speculates that more firms may have grown beyond a point where scale economies were beneficial.
Given the size, asset holdings and attractive valuation, Skilled Healthcare would be an obvious target.
Secondly there is the credit risk issue attached to the mushrooming of wealth-management products, an asset class of uncertain size and quality which banks created in order to attract deposits with higher rates of return.
Their stance alleviated worries that the BOJ would face criticism for doubling the size of its asset purchases to stoke inflation.
Banks that must increase their ratios can only do so in one of two ways: raise fresh capital or shrink the size of their asset base.
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Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.1% for a sixth straight loss after the Bank of Japan left unchanged its key interest rate and the size of its asset-purchase program.
The move helped reassure the market, as there were concerns before the meeting of finance ministers that Japan would be subject to criticism for its plan to double the size of its asset-purchasing program, announced earlier this month.
The Committee will regularly review the pace of its securities purchases and the overall size of the asset-purchase program in light of incoming information and will adjust the program as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability.
The answer depends on the size of the gift, how much asset appreciation there is, and the donor's overall investment, estate-planning and giving goals, Mr. Teitell says.
In determining the size, pace, and composition of its asset purchases, the Committee will, as always, take appropriate account of the likely efficacy and costs of such purchases.
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Expectations are that with a new asset-purchasing program, the Fed will match the size and pace of Operation Twist, but that Treasury purchases will be spread across the yield curve, said Nomura.
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The accounts won't rival 401(k)s in size, but for many people they will become a significant asset, thanks to the miracle of compounding interest. (After a certain high threshold, some people may opt to put a piece of this money into bonds or even stocks.) HSAs will make insurance more affordable for small businesses, which will be a boon for many of today's uninsured.
However, the uncertainty about the valuation of asset prices is arguably no greater than the uncertainty about potential growth rates and hence the size of the output gap, which is at the heart of most central banks' inflation forecasts.
Some providers offer a single, one-size-fits-all or model portfolio, while others offer some customization at the asset allocation level, implemented through a series of proprietary funds-of-funds or feeder funds.
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Louis Fed president James Bullard has been a proponent of varying the rate of asset purchases to reflect the level of accommodation, while in the past Bernanke has said the total size of their balance sheet, rather than its rate of change, determined the level of monetary easing.
"For such a small city (in terms of size), it has many districts all with different characteristics, " said Richard Elms of Castle Asset Holdings.
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