The scale of trust assets still pales in comparison with total banking sector assets of more than 100 trillion renminbi as of the end of June.
But Mr Gros points out that, though Switzerland's bank assets are large in comparison with GDP, the country also is a big international creditor foreigners owe it far more than it owes them.
In such cases, the contract shall also take into account the relative economic importance of the value of the assets in question in comparison with the total estimated value of the services covered by the contract.
The outlook for the European asset managers appears promising in comparison, with stabilizing markets, a recovery in asset flows and a benign regulatory backdrop all conducive to building confidence in the sub-sector's future earnings generation.
The main assets of the method in comparison with the existing monopole-methods are a higher accuracy, a possibility of measuring at considerably shorter distances from the noise source, and a certain freedom in the choise of the measuring points around the source.
Known for its chemical inertia and great thermal stability, this polymer, which is not easily processed, has many assets (biostability, heat sterilisable) in comparison with its main competitor, the PET, even if like the latter, it does not satisfy all the requirements a material used for the making of arterial substitutes has to comply with.
Because it sits on a rising mountain of cash and liquid securities, because its operating assets the pigpens and the like would be expensive to replicate and because those assets generate good returns in comparison with Seaboard's stock market value.
Such high-quality bonds are safe in many ways, especially in comparison with other assets.
The central thesis in this study is that group-ranch-level-driven and/or collective action-based innovations in the management of livelihood assets are more socio-ecologically resilient in comparison with household/individual-driven innovations.
With their stocks down, health care REITs are cheap in comparison with the estimated liquidating value of their assets.
In comparison with batch, transaction processing has meant dramatically lower levels of asset utilization and energy efficiency.
