The issue is whether improving asset prices will make people more willing to spend.
Esther Posner, for example, kept numerous copies of old documents, but never noted whether an asset had been disposed of.
Curious to see whether those asset sales include deepwater projects that would be more difficult to operate under a new regulatory regime.
Note that, in warning against excessive concentrations or common exposures across the banking system, regulators need not make a judgment about whether a particular asset class is mispriced--although rapid changes in asset prices or risk premiums may increase the level of concern.
How can the pricey guru--or you--decide whether to sell an asset if you don't know its basis?
Duke views every asset, whether it's a pipeline or a 500-megawatt power plant, as holding both intrinsic and extrinsic value.
The high-beta rich often have more than half of their wealth in one asset, whether it is a company or a single stock.
First, there was not at all a consensus among the FOMC members on whether to end the asset purchase program sooner rather than later.
The question is whether they can stop asset markets going wild in the hope of averting trouble later, or must wait for a crash and then deal with any macroeconomic effects.
Foaming asset prices are reviving the debate about whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates to cool down asset-price inflation.
Diversification--whether across oceans or across asset classes--is a good thing.
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But SigFig, which will release apps for Android and the iPhone later this month, takes it further, analyzing the data to show your asset allocation and whether you could save on fees by switching to different mutual funds.
Whether central banks should respond to asset-price bubbles is one of the hottest debates in monetary policy.
On Wednesday night in New York, at a UBS discussion on fine art and investments, moderator, art adviser and dealer Jason Rulnick asked panelists whether they thought art was an asset or an investment.
The debate about whether the Fed should worry about booming asset prices when inflation is low is therefore likely to hot up again in coming months.
Two weeks ago, FORBES GLOBAL asked whether the stock market was signaling an asset bubble pop, as it did in 1987, or something far worse -- an Armageddon like 1929.
But try to price any asset these days--whether a house, a car, a share of stock or a sports team, and you'll find that the recession has negatively impacted its value.
The inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program is investigating whether the administration pressured GM to give the UAW special treatment, but the IG lacks subpoena power to force officials to testify.
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Funds should review their asset allocations, not only in light of current market realities, but also for purposes of determining whether consultant conflicts may corrupt the integrity of the process whereby asset allocation is determined.
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Their questions have to do with distributions, asset allocation, taxes, and whether to continue to managing their portfolio themselves or hire our company to do it for a low fee?
The transactional friction that Islamic banks create in structuring financial services to be Sharia-compliant is repeated across all products, whether they are loans, mortgages, bonds or asset-management offerings.
Whether the latest meltdown caused you to rethink your asset allocation or you are sticking with the division between bonds and equities that you chose previously, chances are you need to rebalance your portfolio in light of recent events.
Whether that will calm British fears about selling a strategic asset to a European group is uncertain.
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Now the person who needs monitoring is the person who is trading, whether it is a buy-side trader, an asset manager or a hedge fund.
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The recent surge in house prices around the world has revived the debate about whether central banks should raise interest rates to cool down asset inflation.
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Whether managing a business or maintaining the value of an asset, the overarching goal is to maximize the value of the asset for victims, as victims of Ponzi schemes rarely receive more than pennies on the dollar.
There is always debate among investors as to whether style investing using index funds or a style-based asset class fund is an active management strategy or a passive one.
But the point is that when one is evaluating a client for asset protection planning, a determination must be made whether the client has any known claims or not.
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How policy makers respond to possible new asset-price bubbles will be crucial in determining whether the rest of this decade is a replay of the '70s, the Noughties or something more benign.
"The asset sale program is independent of the evaluation" of whether to divide the company, says Cazalot.
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