The other, fee-based side of its business involves managing long-term investor assets in exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and money market accounts.
While mutual funds are losing assets, exchange traded funds are gaining them.
Among the largest issuers, Vanguard grew average assets per exchange-traded product by 42%, compared to 12.4% for State Street and 4.3% for iShares.
To get there, it buys not only government paper but also riskier assets such as exchange-traded funds.
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Mr Takenaka also wants it to buy less conventional assets such as exchange-traded funds (index-linked equity funds).
The bank added that it would also buy relatively riskier assets such as exchange-traded funds and real estate trust funds.
The central bank also said that it would buy relatively riskier assets such as exchange-traded funds and real-estate investment trusts.
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As well as lowering business costs, direct convertibility may pave the way for New Zealand's central bank to diversify some of its foreign-exchange assets into Chinese government bonds.
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He even suggested to the vice-Chairman of the CME that he could argue in front of the court that the judge grant a lien to CME on the MF Global holding company assets if the exchange were to put up a temporary fund to make MF customers whole.
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This portfolio can be used to embrace all manner of investments such as Bonds, Commodities, Equity, Foreign Exchange, Loans and Options plus less transparent assets such as Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Film Box Office Sales Human Resources, Real Estate, Structured Products, Trade Marks, Patent and Marketing Rights.
The exchange of assets for an annuity policy is neither taxable nor reportable (at least until 2012).
The region is forced to acquire dollar assets in order to avoid exchange-rate appreciation and deflation.
Jenkyn-Jones runs an almost identical open-ended fund with the same name and 17.5 million pounds of assets on the Irish stock exchange.
Fisher wisely established the ventures in a way that gave local partners minority stakes in exchange for business assets, ensuring that Kodak would have operational control.
Companies were offered "buybacks" instead, under which they drilled for oil, built pipelines and handed over the assets to the government in exchange for a fixed return, paid in oil.
However, most global trade, Asia's external debt, foreign-exchange liquidity and financial assets are still denominated in dollars.
While athletes are used for production and exchange just like traditional assets, they are also liabilities on multiple levels as well.
The auditor for a firm like this must annually review the procedures for safeguarding customer and firm assets in accordance with the Commodity Exchange Act.
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Holders of precious metals or other major tradable (fungible) assets worldwide need to monitor the foreign exchange rate of the currency in which their asset is held.
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As a result, all the developing countries have their foreign exchange reserves in dollar-denominated assets.
Its global role would increase as assets were shifted into euros, but global exchange-rate volatility would rise.
We sifted through the performance figures of foreign-country exchange-traded funds with significant assets that have been trading for at least 15 years.
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The picture is less clear for Asian countries, which, led by China and Japan, account for about half of the world's foreign-exchange reserves and sovereign-wealth assets.
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Springleaf has unpledged assets it could offer as collateral in such an exchange, the person said.
The company has had its assets frozen and is under investigation by the stock exchange's regulating body.
They may thus, say the three economists, have been buying in order to exchange over-valued equity for real assets.
They must still have some money left to invest, so they can exchange some of their valuable Treasurys for assets that the suddenly risk-averse are trying to unload.
An emerging face of irresponsible capitalism in Africa, Dan Gertler took his family's fortune in diamonds (his grandfather was the first president of the Israeli Diamond Exchange) and invested it in mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In exchange Malone received UPC's Irish cable assets, a closer geographical match to his U.K. cable company, Telewest.
Investors do not regard assets in different currencies as perfect substitutes, nor do exchange rates always reflect inflation differentials.
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