But they tend to approach individuals when the company has already traced lost assets, rather than individuals going to them asking for help.
Billions in plan assets were lost.
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After the highly publicized collapse of Enron in 2001, many of their employees lost more than half of their retirement assets when the company declared bankruptcy and then to make matters worse, they also lost their jobs.
It would not force the banks to write off and sell assets that have lost value.
The outflow of assets is not lost on the big Wall Street firms.
Ricky Solomon, the Amaranth founding partner and former head of convertible arbitrage who landed at Oppenheimer, lost most of his personal assets.
Assets that have lost value must be recorded at whatever price they might fetch if they were sold today - if they could be sold, that is.
His principled stand lost him nearly half his assets under management due to client defections, but those that stuck with him did well in the bear market that followed.
The federal regulator says it expects to file another 5 to 10 lawsuits in order to recover assets that were lost when five now-failed federal credit agencies bought these securities.
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Folks were so disheartened that they withdrew their funds from The Dreyfus Fund, one of the biggest equity funds of that era, so that it lost about 40% of its assets.
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We have lost track of our two most important assets: customers and employees.
Assuming the company stock in the plan has lost half its value this year, employee retirement assets have likely taken a near 9% hit.
We're prepared to move U.S. Navy assets to help find those who have lost their lives, to help find the missing and to help stabilize the situation.
Lost is the opportunity for them to leverage their assets by, say, getting a mortgage on a home or a loan on a business, and thus expand economic activity.
Yet when some supposedly good-quality assets proved to be worth little, people lost faith in the models and the ratings.
President GEORGE BUSH: We're prepared to move our U.S. Navy assets to help find those who've lost their lives, and help find the missing to help stabilize the situation.
While it is true that banks could resist these views by accepting lost profitability that would come with the higher reserve requirements from disfavored assets, only the most extreme bears would be willing to do this.
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Here I can only say that any future world in which the Treasury is allowed to bully the Fed into providing it with more income would indeed be one in which price stability is endangered but only because the Fed will have lost its independence, not because of QE-related losses on assets.
Quantek has returned 12.1% of assets to investors this year, but by September Papastavrou had lost patience and wanted more.
Meanwhile, cooler-headed Greeks are racking their brains for ways to regain the economy's lost competitiveness and make better use of Greece's abundant human and natural assets.
Sure, for a few years after Enron employees lost their jobs, and in many cases most or all of their retirement assets, employees pulled back, took stock (no pun intended) of their portfolios, and lessened their exposure to company stock.
No jobs have yet been lost, but KPMG said it was looking for a buyer for the company and its assets.
Yahoo only lost 15% of its value when this Alibaba flap arose because it is a large company with other assets.
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American Tissue's lenders lost their patience with Gabayzadeh at an October 2001 meeting where he refused to work with them on selling assets to pay back an unspecified portion of the debt.
One of the drawbacks of borrowing from your retirement plan is that the loan amount is no longer being invested in the portfolio of assets in your retirement account and, therefore, the opportunity for diversification using that amount is lost until the amount is returned to the plan.
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