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.
Even more crucial, they want Congress to make clear that companies can meet the target by measuring their average assets over the past 24 months.
The increase in margins is supported by increase in premiums due to the implementation of the new variable annuity products and increase in fee income due to increases in average assets under management resulting from improvements in equity markets and increased deposit activity as equity market improvements created an environment where investors were willing to re-enter the capital markets.
For example: You must give away at least 5% of average net assets each year, and you must not engage in self-dealing--such as using foundation money to buy a table at a benefit dinner, or billing the foundation 20% of your secretary's salary because he spends 20% of his time doing foundation-related work.
The average return on assets declined slightly to 1.19% (it was 1.23% in 2009).
Some of the biggest foundations base their grant-giving on a three-year average of their assets.
In a study of 26 blue-chip Japanese firms which do their accounts the American way, Mr Marable found that, on average, the assets in their pension funds covered only 60% of the projected benefits.
Both in America and outside it, shares account for a small, and often non-existent, proportion of the average person's assets, which are typically dominated by his home.
Among those that offer stock, workers have an average of 20% of assets invested in it, Hewitt says.
According to Morningstar.com, the ten largest mutual funds by assets had an average turnover ratio of almost 75%.
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Fortunately, the Big Board contains a quotient of intrinsic value embedded in tangible corporate assets, then average earning power cycle to cycle and dividend paying capacity.
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We believe that if the company continues the trend of strengthening its deepwater and ultra-deepwater assets, its average daily revenues per rig and the gross margins of its contract drilling business will be positively impacted going forward.
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The euphoria many endowments have had for private equity resulted in the average endowment, pre-crisis, allocating 11.8% of assets to private equity, above the average allocation for all types of institutional investors, which stands at 8.8% today.
Today, insurance companies have an average of 12% of their assets in risk assets that include high-yield public equity, private equity and real estate equity.
For financials, the Buffett-based approach also looks at the return on assets rate, which must average at least 1% over the past 10 years.
Expenses come to 0.59% of assets yearly, compared with the average of 0.52% for all global and international ETFs.
Since the financial crisis insurance costs have doubled from an average of roughly 0.12% of assets a year to 0.24%.
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The fees typically raise the already-high cost of a variable annuity to an average of almost 3.5% of assets per year, according to Morningstar.
According to a recent Citigroup study, small firms on average spend a heavy 2% of their assets covering various operating expenses, excluding salaries and payouts to their investment teams.
In a report on India's economy, the consultancy points out that 43% of India's capital stock is owned by the state, and that the productivity of these assets is well below the Indian average (see chart).
Japanese bank holdings of JGBs now account for 25% of bank assets, five times the developed world average.
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Since 1994, his vintage currencies, stocks and bond certificates have outperformed all the traditional financial assets in his portfolio, producing an average annual return of 14.28%.
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Under this rule supervisors should require financial institutions to value assets using a long-term moving average when they are pledged (explicitly or implicitly) as collateral for new credit.
The average Gen Y investor has 30% of their assets in cash, the highest of all demographic groups, according to the latest MFS Investing Sentiment Survey results.
The rent growth and position as a domestic owner of domestic hard assets (without European exposure) warrant above average FFO multiples in our opinion.
Higher charges, especially for trading, could cause global wholesale banks' risk-weighted assets to balloon by one-fifth on average, reckons Huw van Steenis of Morgan Stanley.
The bigger concern, however, is not banks' direct exposure to government bonds, which average just 5% of euro-zone banks' assets, but the impact on their financing.
Yet even the critics believe women's influence over wealth is growing, if only because wives outlive their husbands by an average of seven years and usually inherit most of their assets.
As the composition of investment has shifted from traditional machinery towards shorter-lived assets, such as computers and software, the average rate of depreciation has increased.
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