They see it as a cost instead of an asset that costs something.

他们认为它是费用开销，而不是花费一些费用的资产。

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But there's also a cost in not really knowing where this asset lives.

但是同样存在成本，它在于并不真的知道这个资产存放在哪儿。

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Performance, efficiency, and cost issues include asset reuse, speed and cost of development, and runtime performance.

性能、效率和成本问题包括资产重用、开发的速度和成本以及运行时性能。

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The law effectively eliminated the old 10% Investment Tax Credit (some of you may still remember those days) as well as the old longer term depreciation, with a new, more attractive shorter recovery period, referred to as the Modified Asset Cost Recovery System (MACRS).

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But diversified asset classes cost more to trade and involve higher management fees, expenses that eat into pension-fund returns.

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In theory, this is an annual write-off that adds up to an asset's cost over its useful life.

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