Still, one of Bradley's most well-known assets is his ability to make adjustments in the fray.
However, I also expect that strong municipalities will not have trouble navigating these more difficult economic times, given the strength of their income producing assets and their ability to cut expenses.
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The ability to sell assets to this fund will make it easier for banks to raise private capital, which will accelerate their ability to replace the capital investments provided by the Treasury.
While they will continue to buy assets overseas, their ability to buy big will be limited, analysts say.
We also have the ability to access assets and technology much faster than before.
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GE's success is based on its ability to make assets sweat harder for shareholders.
The ability to buy assets expires after two years, but its management of those assets would continue.
Management sounded optimistic about the second half of the year, and their ability to grow assets, revenue and earnings going forward.
Another important reason is that it shows confidence in the ability to select assets that you think will provide a superior return on investment.
It seems ironic when people who have no qualms with insuring their cars, homes, and other assets hesitate to insure their ability to support themselves.
Alongside the gain in assets has come an increased ability to borrow against them and an increased tendency to spend as if the asset appreciation would go on forever.
Hedge funds generally have great freedom in their investment strategies, including the ability to invest assets with other hedge fund managers, and funds and are notoriously lacking in transparency.
The ongoing sovereign debt issues with Greece reignited when comments from the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund suggested that without further austerity measures and sale of assets by Greece, the ability of Greece to be able to repay debt soon coming due comes into question.
How a company is structured, its physical locations and assets, its management, its ability to efficiently finance its operations, and its dividend policy all factor into performance.
Has the fund taken in too many assets under management, thereby impacting its ability to generate attractive returns on the money you have invested?
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"Liz Murdoch got a company that has tremendous production assets like TheBiggest Loser, with the ability to sell and buy content like this overseas, " says Grant.
Some of the banks trumpeted their ability to buy discarded European assets abroad, as well as making fresh loans in Asia, when they released reports on May 15th showing a sharp increase in profits last fiscal year.
Financial assets appeal for one reason only: their ability to enhance, or conserve, the buyer's wealth.
Through the program, companies would also have the ability to purchase insurance on troubled assets, rather than selling them.
The Volcker rule, which puts limits on banks' ability to invest capital in alternative assets, could also help Blackstone.
For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual.
Furthermore, the ability of the survivors to recover their assets was hindered because the information was destroyed by the perpetrators.
While half the children are below average, the current educational system shortchanges their ability to pro?t from the assets they do possess.
The experience in Desert Shield demonstrated that limits on lift assets and the lack of prepositioned equipment affects the ability to deploy any but light land forces to halt the aggression.
In fact, 64 percent of employers in a recent CareerBuilder.com survey found social interview skills and the ability to communicate well as the most important assets in a potential employee.
"A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, including her investments, is essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines, " it says.
The rationale for the high allocation is that you need your assets to grow, and at a rate that preserves your ability to purchase goods and services.
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That has limited its ability to finance further investment in its most valuable assets, such as Cegetel, France's second-largest telephone operator, of which Vivendi owns 44% and Mannesmann 15%.
At the meeting shareholders will vote on resolutions to restrict the ability of the bank's board to dispose of assets.
Nor have investors grown any more confident about their ability to price the banks' toxic mortgage-backed assets: Merrill Lynch's cut-price sale of collateralised-debt obligations in July has had few imitators.
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