If the best equity fund manager is overweight Brazil and the best fixed income manager is overweight Brazil, there is no country diversification in a market where risk taken on the wrong country can hurt a portfolio.
Japan is the most undervalued market in the world, offering the best chance for equity price appreciation.
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It all adds up to the best returns on equity in the business.
The best hope for equity investors in 2012 is that both the gold bugs and the bond vigilantes are wrong.
Not only is there a large gap between the best private-equity funds and the rest, but their respective performances have also been remarkably consistent.
Total has one of the best returns on equity in the sector, which is a good indication that it knows how to turn any rising natural gas earnings into profits for shareholders.
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Templeton, which is best known for international equity funds, has linked up with an Italian bank and with J.
After adjusting for these factors, the authors argue that the best estimate of the equity risk premium worldwide in future is 4-5 percentage points.
Why is it that many pensions pay substantially higher fees for their money market cash sweep than they pay their best performing bond and equity managers?
Likewise, its return on equity is second best in the sector.
Especially in America, private-equity bosses are best-known for giving their money away, not to charities, but to the rock stars they hire to play at their birthday parties.
The amount of common equity - the best capital for absorbing losses - that banks have to hold will rise from 2% of their loans and investments to 7%.
The new rules state that the amount of common equity - the best capital for absorbing losses - that banks have to hold will rise from 2% of their loans and investments to 7%.
Our list consists of no-load diversified U.S. equity funds with the best records since March 2000.
Another business to make the 16 best performers was Kenya's Equity Bank, which the study said had pioneered mobile banking in its nation's rural areas.
Falling house prices also mean householders have less equity, excluding these people from the best deals, which require a large deposit.
As measured by the equity markets, Russia is the second best performing BRIC, but is still underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The venture capitalist or private equity specialist must study and comprehend how best to allocate pools of capital (savings) to their most productive, efficient and profitable use.
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"The best way to defend their position in the private-equity space is to affiliate with a distressed-debt fund, " Bringewatt says.
But Knight is one of the electronic vanguard that has best used automation to become one of the most consequential equity traders in the world.
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Private equity investors aren't always putting the best companies out there for sale to the public says the Corporate Library, a for-profit corporate governance research firm.
In a filing with the SEC on Friday, Schulze said he was in negotiations with Best Buy about deal in which up to three private equity firms would invest in the company, in exchange for a board seat for each firm plus two nominees by Schulze.
More troubling are reports that Mr. Yang is engaging in one-off discussions with private equity firms, presumably because it is in his best personal interests to do so.
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Coupled with that, I do want to say that what I feel is one of the best investments out there for anybody who wants to play the equity markets is actually derivative equities, and that would be a high-yield or junk bond.
The best firms, such as Goldman, used to make returns on equity above 30%.
With crowdfunding equity investment on the horizon, how can women entrepreneurs best tap the crowd?
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According to the private equity clients at Pepper Hamilton lawfirm, India is the best emerging market for their investments.
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Such incubators typically take a large chunk of equity, which may scare off the entrepreneurs with the best ideas.
But neither has been able to make a big breakthrough into equity underwriting, the investment-banking business that separates the best from the rest.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, sometimes the best way to increase a company's stock price is to sell additional equity.
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