With quantitative easing, the value of assets are maintained by a centrally unwritten environment of easy money.
Deflation is a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and houses.
They say that, you know, writing down the value of assets right now just adds to volatility.
It is the job of the CEO to increase the value of assets that he or she leads.
According to Hedge Fund Research, a research company, the value of assets in funds of hedge funds doubled last year.
The hefty loss came after Mothercare wrote down the value of assets and took charges related to UK store closures.
Vivendi's gigantic loss for last year included a euro12.6 billion writedown in the value of assets bought during its acquisition binge.
Banks are allowed some leeway to use computer models in gauging the real value of assets that, for whatever reason, aren't trading.
Insurance companies like AIG collect premiums from their insurance customers which they then invest to generate income and appreciation in the value of assets.
If so, investors in the marketplace would decide the best way to mark the value of assets, as opposed to valuation by government decree.
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It required banks to write down the value of assets (such as long-term bonds) to market value, even if the banks intended to hold them until maturity.
Management of these companies has, over time, caused the value of assets it has acquired to decrease so much that the cumulative value destroyed exceeds the value of all their assets currently.
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Deflation pushes up the real burden of debt, while the value of assets linked to that debt, such as house prices, may have to fall even more sharply in nominal terms to return to a fair level.
Banks need to keep a ratio between the value of their assets and the amount of money they're lending out and because of this mortgage crisis and because of the fears surrounding it, the value of the assets they have on their books has fallen.
And if asset managers turn en masse to bonds with long maturities to match their assets and liabilities more precisely, which is necessary especially for older plans, that will raise bond prices, depress bond yields and increase the present value of assets they must hold again, widening the pensions gap.
Back then, a fall in the value of its assets of just 2% was enough to sink it.
When rates rise, the value of the assets goes down while the value of the liabilities remains unchanged.
If the value of the assets shrinks, so does the value of the CEO.
One way or another, the value of most assets is derived from the present value of these cash flows.
Watson explains that what was once a niche sector is now seeing barriers to entry fall, but markets have yet to realize that the underlying value of pipeline assets is substantially higher than the market value of those companies.
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Private investors will not commit capital to productive assets when the value of those assets is losing ground to inflation.
If you are resident in the UK, and you have substantial liabilities and outgoings in sterling, a bit of inflation will help you service what you owe at the same time as eroding the real value of your assets (or in this case, the real value of your loans to Her Majesty's Government).
Known as conduits, these special-purpose vehicles borrow in the short-term, commercial-paper market to make acquisitions of highly rated paper in American asset-backed securities, and have been walloped by the plunging value of those assets since the frailty of subprime loans were exposed.
For most people, the value of their employment exceeds the value of their assets by a wide margin, and this asset has some special characteristics that make it differ from typical items on a balance sheet or brokerage statement.
Cornerstone Progressive Return has 93% of its assets in the shares of other closed ends, many trading below the value of their assets.
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The majors charge an annual "wrap" fee on the value of all assets -- including no-loads -- of 1% or more, which is pretty expensive.
All other things equal, the mining of that tonne might raise the value of the coal that remains in the ground, leaving the value of coal assets unchanged.
Finally, Aris claims that the hedge fund management firm has continued to get its management fee of 2% on assets that Guerra has been inflating by rejecting asset sales that would reveal the fair market value of the assets on its books.
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Wall Street has been moving billions of assets into a relatively new accounting category called "level 3, " a designation that the fair value of those assets, including subprime mortgages and derivatives, couldn't be determined because there was no observable market for them.
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