Previously, they had more leeway in valuing assets, so long as they expected to hold them for a long period of time.
"I suppose there had already been a rigorous enumeration and distribution of the marital assets not so long before, at the time of the settlement".
"They'd borrowed as much as they could, the stock was too low to issue more equity, and you can only sell assets for so long before you start dissipating your underlying value," said Gary Schneider, an analyst at Bear , Stearns
Of course, Schwab doesn't mind how or why these advisors are gathering assets, just so long as the money is walking through the door.
The British papers, unless blessed with vast increases in digital revenue, will be News Corporation assets only so long as Mr. Murdoch has breath in him.
Asset managers, for so long the Bloomingdales and Harrods of finance, are facing competition from the sector's Wal-Mart in the form of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a flexible vehicle that gives investors exposure to almost any asset class at low cost.Yet the industry is also being presented with two great long-term opportunities.
Under Mr. Putin, however, there has evolved something of an unspoken agreement not to spend too much time looking back at the corrupt and murderous way in which the Soviet Union's assets were privatized, so long as everyone agrees to follow certain rules.
Lord Ashcroft has been buying and selling assets in Belize for so long, and with such large sums, that the locals sometimes say he owns the whole country.
But for many assets, ownership seemed for so long like an inviolate trait.
That enables them to examine income and assets in alternate ways so long as they obey the master commandment imposed by regulators in the aftermath of the financial crisis: Determine whether the borrower has the ability to repay the debt.
"They've been selling off some of their key assets, but there's only so long you can sell off assets to keep the stock price up," Mr. Perkins said.
