Or will they end up squandering what has been one of the western hemisphere's prime assets?
The Club Med countries have an endless supply of prime assets sitting idle, virtually all of which could be rented out in short order.
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Selling Worldwide could mean the BBC losing control of its prime assets - its brands and its programmes - to a third party which would not be in the interests of licence payers.
They continue, for example, to have considerable exposure to European banks, with, as of May 31, 2012, approximately 30% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks based in Europe generally and approximately 14% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks located in the Eurozone.
American International Group recorded a steep decline in first-quarter earnings Thursday, as some of its prime international assets are now delivering profits to the bottom line of rivals, and the drop comes amid reports of tension with government rescuers.
JPMorgan Chase, now the owner of Bear, has seen a 25% rise in prime-brokerage assets over the past few weeks.
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Indeed, Fitch Ratings issued a report in June concluding that 50% of all prime money market fund assets were invested in European banks!
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In the late 1990s Benz Energy, a Vancouver-exchange-listed exploration company, stumbled while developing the Oakvale gas field in Mississippi but stayed alive by selling assets to Prime Natural Resources.
Assets: Family owns prime real estate in Munich, a property development outfit, the Arabella hotel chain and breweries including Paulaner, one of Germany's best-known brands.
At least one, AQR, had asked its lawyers to grill the fund's prime brokers about the fate of its assets in the event of their demise.
Ironically, one case that raises questions about the courts' susceptibility to pressure saw Mr Thaksin, then prime minister, cleared in 2001 of concealing his assets.
Uneximbank's boss, Vladimir Potanin, a former first-deputy prime minister, helped design a programme for privatising state assets, of which his own group became a leading purchaser.
Black reported that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had said Cypriot proposals included a set of assets that they believed the Russians would be prepared to buy.
And attempts by Merrill Lynch, one of the prime brokers to the Bear Stearns funds, to sell some of their assets showed how illiquid the market for such securities had become.
The assembled leaders had also agreed that "we need to develop broader measures of progress to complement GDP in order to take account of the natural assets that will contribute to future prosperity", the deputy prime minister added.
With a growing customer base, on-line exposure, minimal debt and very few assets, when the global economic crisis hit in 2008, Aramex was in prime position.
As prime minister between 1997 and 2002 Lionel Jospin, himself an ex-Trotskyist, privatised more assets than any of his right-wing predecessors.
Rather, Viacom has significant television assets that include the CBS network, which is pulling in big audiences with some of its prime-time shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Survivor.
Soon after that, he split with his longtime partner, Vladimir Potanin, a former deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin with close ties to the Kremlin, leading to asset sales and division of assets.
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