In most states the assets of a single, childless adult go to his parents, if they are still alive.
For some people, say, those saving only for retirement, life-cycle funds could be a one-stop way to achieve a proper, diversified mix of assets through a single investment.
"Every animation begins with a single asset of a flower, insect, animal, etc.," says Taberko. "As I'm animating, I think about what kind of 'path' the animation evolves through, so that when I compile the individual assets together, the movement is captivating but not busy and confusing.
A total of 250 portfolio managers and analysts picked stocks in 11 locations around the globe for a $4.5 billion pool of assetsabout the size of a single mutual fund.
In November it filed a prospectus supplement containing a disconcerting update: "While the Fund's fundamental policies do not allow it to concentrate its investments (that is, to invest more than 25% of its total assets) in a single industry, certain types of municipal securities are not considered a part of any industry' under that policy".
If Osborne succeeds, he will raise more from the sale of state assets in a single year than even Lady Thatcher did in 1987 – when her government sold £21bn worth of shares in British Airways, the British Airports Authority, British Petroleum, Rolls-Royce and the Royal Ordnance Factories.
Most of Metropole France's investments are more long term, and it holds up to 10% of its assets in a single stock.
If you sell a lot of capital assets in a single year, you may need to pay estimated taxes to avoid a penalty for underpaying your taxes.
Were The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a public company, it would rank among the entire world's 400 largest by asset size before getting a single dime of Warren Buffett's promised money.
We study auctions of a single asset among symmetric bidders with affiliated values.
