As balance sheets have become more unencumbered, the pool of assets available to support claims by unsecured creditors has diminished.
The family patriarch requested a diversification strategy to enable this pool of assets to support, permanently, the seven non-working members of his family, two of whom were in their 20s.
It was agreed that the Royal Brothers Building would be kept out of the common pool of assets that was to be divided as it could be a potential deal breaker.
So investors are getting a very different return source, but at the same time, since we are building these funds from the largest US equities, they are getting a very liquid pool of assets, something that they can trade.
On the other end of the spectrum, the largest plans typically do not retain a broker unless it is a traditional broker processing buy and sell transactions for a pool of plan assets.
No wonder investors ended 2011 in a state of acute anxiety, abandoning entire markets and choosing instead to crowd into a shrinking pool of supposedly safe assets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused the firm of failing to disclose the role of a short seller in constructing a pool of mortgage-related assets sold to investors.
"CDO" is a common term for collateralized debt obligation, an investment-grade security backed by a pool of bonds, loans and other assets.
She was basically saying that company is still turning a profit and it's a pool of billions of dollars worth of assets and it's not about to go bust.
The TARP, initially positioned as a pool of money to purchase toxic mortgage assets from banks, was ultimately used to inject capital directly into financial institutions in return for preferred equity stakes.
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"The objective of the Unclaimed Assets Register is very simply to pool together all the vast amount of money to make it easy for those people who are entitled to it to recover that money, " Keith Hollander founder of the Unclaimed Assets Register.
But over time, we were able to develop such a deep pool of buyers and such a large amount of assets for sale that we had to really start investing in technology to make the process more scalable, more efficient.
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To minimize the excessive risks of the stock market and keep down investment management costs, we can invest the funds from all the individual retirement accounts as a pool, mirroring the way that the assets of a traditional pension fund are invested.
These are "funds" in the common sense of being portfolios that pool investor dollars to buy assets.
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But the church does shift between considering all assets as part of a single pool when that suits, and claiming that funds have always been separate and ring-fenced when they are exposed to claims.
On the surface, it seems Fidelity is angling to use the ETF wrapper as a way to pool assets from its existing mutual funds to expand the reach of those products.
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The investment component of variable products is not guaranteed at all, but the assets in the investment pool belong to the annuity holders, not to the insurer or its creditors.
The basic premise of mutual funds is straightforward: Investors pool their money, and the fund invests in stocks, bonds, government securities or a combination of such assets.
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