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Since the IRS intended the 3.8% Medicare Surtax to place a tax on investment income, it is natural that income from standard forms of investment assets are included in the NII sum.
FORBES: New Taxes and New Terms: How to calculate Net Investment Income under the New 3.8% Medicare Surtax
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And, of course, the opposite is true, too: the 8% standard gives banks a huge incentive to hold riskier assets.
ECONOMIST: Banking regulation
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For atypical assets, what you, and those are assets for which there isn't any standard regularized marketplace.
FORBES: Intelligent Investing Briefing Book
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Bass won't do badly either, with his fairly standard hedge fund fee of 1.5% of assets annually plus 20% of any profits.
FORBES: Sid Bass tries to hook investors with a no-sin fund.
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One other bank that might take an interest in Citigroup's assets is also based in the United Kingdom: Standard Chartered.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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The N-spot we really seek is the precise amount of assets needed at retirement to provide the same living standard after retirement as that we enjoy before retirement (or as close a match as possible without going into debt).
FORBES: Economics-Based Planning
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As part of our standard process, every effort is made to identify the source of account assets.
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has bought 20% of Standard Bank, a South African lender and the continent's biggest bank by assets, and now offers renminbi accounts to expatriate traders.
ECONOMIST: The Chinese in Africa
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Accounting standard-setters have been arm-twisted into relaxing rules that force banks to mark certain assets to market, but in the long run that may hurt confidence in the health of bank balance-sheets, not help it.
ECONOMIST: Meltdown may have been averted. But the crunch is not over
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If the employer has enough assets to pay out all obligations of a pension plan, then it can initiate a standard termination.
FORBES: PBGC Pension Termination: A Worker's Perspective by Terry O'Rourke, United airlines (December 15, 2007 )
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As you can see in the graph below, when combining such assets, returns generally shift to the lower right: higher return and lower risk (as measured by standard deviation).
FORBES: The Multiple Rewards of Multi-Asset-Class Investing