The contribution that four important intangible assets--reputation, innovation, management and human capital--make to a company's market value is deemed to be its corporate brand value.

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He also owns 20.5 million C Shares, which are deemed to have the same value as the B shares.

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Using this definition means many items of value are not deemed investments.

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