All of which is a long-winded way of saying that UK banks should be able to meet the new capital standard without taxpayers having to inject any new money.
Gains on such funds are taxed more lightly, under standard capital-gains rates.
The standard bearer capital allocation model of a portfolio describes inherent risks to the fund, but not reward.
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And with many large investment houses, most notably U.K. firms Barclays Capital and even smaller Standard Life Investments recently saying that the emerging markets have lost some steam despite high inflows to start the year, Indian equities could be in for a pull back, not an upswing.
The market changes have left Kleiner, the most active venture capital firm in cleantech, with dozens of investments that may never pay off, threatening its image as the gold standard of venture capital.
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In such a scenario, since local subsidiaries (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru) cannot reduce capital reserves below a certain level, we assume these subsidiaries would only lower their capital reserves up to one standard deviation above the legal minimum, to prevent potentially violating any regulatory requirements during periods of heightened volatility.
Macroeconomists also had a blindspot: their standard models assumed that capital markets work perfectly.
These accords are a global regulatory standard on bank minimum capital requirements, bank liquidity, and bank leverage.
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Witte put Russia on the gold standard to attract international capital and help create domestic capital to expand the economy.
Devaluation means inflation, capital flight (and who wants to hold a depreciating currency?), increased cost of capital, destroyed savings and a lower standard of living.
The alternative is a growing irrelevancy for developed market companies and markets and a subsequent decline in our capital markets, corporate sector, and standard of living.
The result is that now all of the main mayoral candidates have signed up to the LCC's campaign promising to "commit to continental-standard cycling infrastructure in the capital".
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Now of the three potential bidders for Lloyds, two - NBNK and Sun Capital - would find it hard to escape standard status, because (to state the obvious) neither of them have been giants in banking for the past 20 plus years.
"There's a great deal riding on this election, but it's really all about personalities, " said Joe Murphy, political editor of the capital's free daily newspaper, The Evening Standard, which has endorsed Johnson.
Daily works on the Natural Capital Project, a joint venture of Stanford, the University of Minnesota, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy to develop standard tools for the measurement of natural capital.
But most financial innovations, properly used, enhance our standard of living by helping create and deploy capital more efficiently.
Under the classical gold standard economic growth, international trade and global capital flows flourished with a minimum of state intervention.
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Capital and interest, or repayment, mortgages work as standard loans do.
These three virtues in the fiscal cliff are highly positive and will only increase the pool of available risk-taking capital in the economy, thereby increasing the capital-to-labor ratio and improving the national standard of living.
The details may be arcane, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.
Some will no doubt benefit in the near term, but the removal of limited capital from the productive parts of the economy will ultimately reduce our standard of living, drive up unemployment and make individuals more--as opposed to less--needful of charity.
For Standard Bank the merits of the deal are clear: more capital, and kudos, to build a bigger presence in Africa and elsewhere.
Even after the new standard is implemented, investors will need to convert operating leases into capital leases for all prior years to perform apples-to-apples historical comparisons.
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The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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Standard Chartered has just reopened its representative office in Yangon, the commercial capital, after a gap of several years.
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The Industry Standard and its regional editions flourished when dot.coms were flush with venture capital cash they could use to advertise and build their brand.
Just as the right answer to inequitable application of national security-minded export controls is not to dumb down ours to the lowest common denominator applied by others, our approach on capital markets transparency ought to be to bring others' exchanges up to our new, higher standard.
The Financial Stability Board, which co-ordinates the G20's financial policies, has asked standard-setters and regulators to find ways of yanking ratings out of rules on bank capital, fund holdings, margin agreements and so on.
The PowerShares Capital Management group, for example, has a whole family of exchange-trade funds based in standard indexes but with methodologies that allow for discretion in what securities are purchase, and in what amounts.
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