These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.

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The value of some of his other assets went down as well but losses were not as significant.

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The buyout barons wrote down the value of their assets significantly and saw some of their desperate investors unload slices of their funds for as low as 40 cents on the dollar.

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