If you agree, put 10% of your money in a hard-assets stock fund (see table below) or in some commodity positions you place yourself at a broker.
And those financial assets are a stock: they are (to an acceptable level of detail) the capital assets from which we make that added value.
To buy time, Miller orchestrated a massive restructuring--selling assets, issuing stock and refinancing bank debt.
Households produce their own version, liquidating riskier assets (like stock mutual funds) and moving into cash and government bonds.
We also have dedicated commitments to non-US assets in the stock and bonds area, precious metals and commodities, real estate and natural resource-type stocks.
Investing 17% or 18% of retirement plan (whether define contribution or define benefit) assets in company stock is reckless and irresponsible, in my opinion.
Some employees have invested 100% of their assets in company stock.
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Hewitt found that the percentage of employees who held half or more of their 401(k) assets in employer stock rose from 9.4% in 2008 to 12.7% in 2009.
Buyers want to buy assets since buying stock carries liabilities.
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He argued that a tax cut is needed now to prevent the government accumulating large stocks of private assets when the stock of public debt is paid off.
These partnerships shelter all manner of assets--stock, real estate, cash--with the parents usually remaining in control as general partners while giving the kids assets in the form of limited partnership units.
Some plans have a significant percentage, say 40%, of their total assets invested in employer stock.
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Granted, many wealthy Chinese prefer to invest in hard assets than in the stock market or low yielding bonds.
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Gentle Ben says he wants to re-inflate financial assets, including higher stock prices.
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.
Meantime, risk assets such as world stock markets and many commodity markets, and the Euro currency, were pressured on the Italian vote news.
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Definition of private equity: a marvelous system for creating wealth by trading an existing stock of assets back and forth at ever higher prices.
Certain rules that govern mutual funds and institutional managers typically prevent them from holding more than 5 percent of their assets in a single stock.
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The company caters to fund managers and institutional investors trading in illiquid assets like private company stock, bankruptcy claims, loans, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.
Contributing appreciated assets, such as stock, family businesses and real estate to a charitable remainder trust during 2010 is a good way to avoid capital gains tax.
Clearly, it was foreseeable to these professionals, as well as the company sponsor, that a heavy concentration of plan assets invested in company stock could be disastrous.
Freedman claims, among other things, that Renaissance could not refund customer deposits because it had fraudulently spent the unearned revenue in a mad dash to increase its cruise ship assets before a planned stock offering.
That has inevitably led to a huge stock of US assets being held by non-US residents.
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Shortly before Enron's demise its employees had 62% of their retirement plan assets tied up in its stock.
But the real stock of corporate assets was on no such roller coaster.
It is clear that something has gone wrong with the way that the economy builds its stock of nonresidential assets.
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Mr Shalizi adds that economic growth deriving from this will create an enormous stock of new assets that can be shared with the world's poorest.
Sellers, on the other hand, prefer to sell stock, not assets.
Further, creditors have no recourse to sovereign assets in Greece, whereas in a corporate-debt restructuring, there are underlying assets factories, stock, equipment that ultimately can be seized and valued.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute says that the percentage of 401(k) assets held in employers' stock has been halved since 2000, but the numbers are still alarming.
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