Because people wrongly view preferreds as less safe than bonds, the preferreds tend to have better yields and lower conversion premiums. (The conversion premium is the amount by which the price of a convertible exceeds the value of the common stock you would get if you converted.) Another plus: They are exchange traded, so preferreds are more liquid.
Well, at one time, it was thought that you could work both sides of the coin and utilize the loophole: if you converted the company stock directly to the Roth, it seems that you would only have to pay tax on the basis of the stock (per NUA rules), and then never have to pay tax on the capital gains.
The Apple cash hoard would be much better off if it was converted into any of the companies listed above.
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If Oprah Winfrey converted her fortune into dollar bills and lined them up end to end, they'd wrap around the world five and a half times.
Any qualms Markham might have had about fraternising with the people who may have murdered his former wife are soon forgotten as he becomes fascinated by, if not quite converted to, Gould's religion of pointless violence.
But the rule isn't retroactive, so if your plan has converted already, your employer doesn't have to notify you.
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By one account, if all automobiles were converted to natural gas, these supplies would last as long as 200 years.
The home side could have eased their worries if Paul Wright had converted his chance from less than six yards out.
So if Mitsubishi UFJ has converted to common stock, I would be looking at this very carefully and wondering why this was agreed to.
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According to Jaap Meijer, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort, if the French government converted this debt to equity it would be a different story.
If you have not converted and still have analogue TV, you will lose BBC Two at stage one and all of your remaining channels at stage two.
Partly that's because of the early adopter problem: consumers will have their cars converted only if fuel is easily available, but companies will be willing to sell it only when there are enough drivers to make it profitable.
Dickerson says the church's followers will only be converted to fake items if the leaders say it is acceptable.
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The worst offenders are palm oils, which may have ten times the carbon emissions of normal diesel fuel derived from petroleum if the palm is grown on converted rainforest land.
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And the point is that for all the decent performance of the shares and property held by the Church's pension scheme, their aggregate value is several hundreds of millions of pounds less than would be needed if they were cashed in and converted into allegedly safer bonds.
You spread the converted income over four years if you Rothify in 1998.
If gasoline demand in the Midwest was converted to demand for E85, every drop of ethanol produced in the Midwest could be consumed in the Midwest.
That is, what do we get from a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (or more accurately, CO2-e, the effects of methane, NOX and so on converted to a common as if they were CO2 number).
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
It will be interesting to see if Mr Murdoch's papers suddenly become converted to the cause of the European currency, now that their owner is converted to the cause of European pay-television.
You have to pay tax on the converted amount, but this tax bill vanishes if there happens to be a fat deduction on hand.
"If you say lying about a non-crime can be converted into a high crime by the way you handle it, that sets a pretty low standard for me, " Jeffords said.
If you have friends who, despite these attractions, have wholeheartedly converted to e-readers, I have one last suggestion.
If the destination account currency is not dollars or euros then it will be converted to the native currency automatically.
One takeaway from all this is that if you do a Roth conversion, you must be prepared to monitor the converted investments.
But if the latest rumor is true, our former nerd rage energy will be converted to nerd glee: Scott may be teaming up with the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, Hampton Fancher.
If you are an entity with assets that can potentially be diverted, stolen, converted to personal use, or employees that can be corrupted, then you should consider the initiation of a confidential reporting system that provides a method for honest employees to report waste, fraud, and abuse.
And if the supply of apartments continues to be constrained, rents and the prices of homes converted to rentals will continue to support higher housing prices.
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Hence presumably reprocessing is involved in the final stage, since if the protactinium-233 is left in the reactor it will be at least partly converted to protactinium-234, which is not a useful fissile material.
If the fund were tucked into a 401(k) or IRA, its capital gains would be converted into high-taxed ordinary income.
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