Private-equity funds, for example, give investors exposure to the same kinds of risks as quoted companies, only with added leverage.So was the whole idea of diversification a write-off from the start?
To begin with, it bites off such an absurdly large chunk of thematic meat that any possibility of chewing through it all is a write-off from the outset.
Despite these challenges, Peter Leon, a respected mining analyst, says the sector cannot be written off from the larger economy.
We've had supportive comments on maths to 18 and student loans being written off from the Tories.
I tore the paper I had written off from the notepad and walked over to put it into my purse.
The American International Group posted higher quarterly profit yesterday as premiums rose, but it fell short of Wall Street forecasts as income from investments declined and old earthquake claims and a write-off from a software project dragged down earnings.
It included a new rent of £400,000 a year and an offer to write off £300,000 from the £1.3m pounds that Sisu owe.
That agreement included a new rent of £400,000 per year and an offer to write off £300,000 from the £1.3m that Sisu owe.
But Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Ifo institute in Munich, one of the country's key economic thinktanks, last week became one of the most prominent German voices arguing for an international summit to agree a debt write-off, from the pragmatic point of view that Germany is unlikely to get its money back anyway.
International profits fell 8.1% to £28.2m after a £3.8m write-off from the closure of franchise stores in Romania.
Tata steel has been forced to write off $1.6 billion£1.04bnbn) from the value of its assets, raising questions about the future of its UK business.
