Although Japan is showing signs of an economic revival after years of low growth, Mitsui says there are limited opportunities for investment in assets of the size and scale to meet its ambitions.
Overall, the total size of assets managed by the wealth management division rose 6.5% in 2012.
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Although oil cognoscenti applaud Aubrey for his acquisition prowess, assembling one of the great troves of natural gas assets, second in size only to EXXON (XOM), the fact remains that CHK has had negative cash flow every single year they have been in existence.
So as the fund grows up, as the fund grows in size, the assets could be reduced.
Given that the banks' assets are many times the size of Swiss GDP, would the country have the financial strength to bail them out?
Should the economy continue to improve Schwab would likely benefit doubly from a continuation of the interest margin trends as well as further growth in size of client assets.
Switzerland, home to two huge banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, each of which at the time of the crisis had assets at least twice the size of the country's annual GDP, is also proposing unusually strict capital rules and giving regulators a say over its banks' business decisions.
In particular, the sum of the value of global stocks, bonds, and bank assets is 366% of the size of global GDP.
We also had to examine whether the fees managers charged pensions were the lowest managers offered any other clients for accounts of similar size and with similar assets under management.
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What makes matters worse is that these same assets are still being hyped in potential and size to leverage balance sheets.
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Merrill was an outlier in terms of the size of its exposure to mortgage-backed assets, because of its leading role as a distributor of CDOs.
Once in an FLP or LLC, the assets fall under the control of a manager, who decides the size and timing of distributions, says Scott Winget, a senior director of planning at Wells Fargo Family Wealth.
We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
Is it better to take big risks in order to grow, or just milk the cash cow assets they already have and slowly but surely liquidate down to a smaller size?
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Realistically, if megabanks were forced to hold capital equal to 15 percent of assets rather than 8 percent, they would have a powerful incentive to reduce their size.
Assuming that Western banks stagnate, that would mean China's biggest bank would take about two years to reach the size of, say, JPMorgan Chase, measured by risk-adjusted assets.
They vary based on the size of the plan (large companies tend to have lower costs as a percentage of total assets) and the extent to which the employer absorbs the costs charged by the plan sponsors and advisers.
Whitney says Citi's tangible capital ratio of 2.8% is well below the 4.7% average of banks of similar size, the result of a flurry of acquisitions over the last two years that bulked up its assets by 35%.
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