An executor typically offers the will for probate, takes action to protect the assets of the estate, makes distributions of property to beneficiaries and pays the debts and taxes of the estate.
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Gijsbert Groenewegen, managing partner of Silver Arrow Capital Management, said the news about Germany seeking to protect its banks shows how murky the European debt situation is, which makes investors seek the transparency of hard assets like gold and silver.
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The idea that natural assets are substitutable makes some environmentalists (including some contributors to the report) nervous.
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The discount makes the payout to charity, as a percent of the trust's assets, look bigger than it really is and the gift to the heirs a lot smaller--exactly what the donor wants.
The business unit makes money by charging a fee for serving as the custodian of financial assets on behalf of institutional investors such as mutual funds, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and other investment pools.
In both cases what really makes the entity valuable and successful is the very special way the intangibles and tangible assets come together to generate a present value of future net income.
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As the commission's report makes clear, an EMP attack could devastate both civilian and military assets without harming humans--in the short term.
He makes the same as I do, has the same assets, family structure, etc.
Under these changing circumstances, it makes sense for owners of corporate assets to take the extra time needed to educate and develop potential Chinese acquirers.
This makes the charitable trust a particularly attractive vehicle for appreciated assets like stocks, which would normally be subject to capital gains, but can be contributed to the trust at fair market value (and thus, deducted calculating that same value) and sold inside the trust for no gain.
The donor puts assets in a CLAT that makes annual payments to charity for a term.
Sometimes it makes more sense to simply close the doors and sell the assets.
One reason for such optimism: Greek, Irish and Portuguese sovereign debt makes up less than 1% of assets at each of the EU's ten largest banks.
And because the ICB seems to think that a standalone bank could usefully have an existing infrastructure, that makes a link between Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks and the Project Verde assets make more sense.
Finally, Medicaid makes it tough to artificially give away assets in order to benefit from the program.
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In some states that makes a big difference in the time and fees it takes to transfer those assets to your heirs.
The convention of measuring people's wealth by their total assets makes retiring Americans look poorer than they actually are.
Baker points out that private mutual funds, on average, charge much higher fees (as a percentage of assets under management) than the costs of the Thrift Savings Plan the federal government makes available to federal employees.
And the other alternative reading, that they have 32 times as much capital as they do assets makes no sense at all in a system of fractional reserve banking.
This makes Sarofim, who last appeared on the Forbes 400 in 2007, a billionaire once again on his publicly traded assets alone.
If you're considering a 1031 deal, proceed cautiously: It probably makes sense only if you are already planning to sell a property and to reinvest the proceeds into other real estate assets, say tax experts.
That makes it a buyer's market, given the slew of desperate banks, pension funds and endowments looking to unload assets to meet obligations.
Yet the merger makes sense, in an industry dominated by the 27 big state banks, which together own four-fifths of bank assets and pocket 70% of the profits.
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