Finally, in India, while the volatility issues related to dominant financial assets, such as company shares, have been well researched and documented, only a few studies on commodity futures have been carried out.
After World War II, several navies retained their existing battleships, but they were no longer strategically dominant military assets.
History offers few clues on the consequences of a downgrade to the world's dominant risk-free asset.
Choosing a desired policy for divestiture of dominant firms' generation assets has been a challenging task and open question for regulatory authority.
Mr Shin replies that in instances like this, where there happens to be a dominant holder of assets, there is less chance of sales into a falling market.Although more accurate disclosure of balance sheets is desirable, the work of Mr Shin and his colleagues is a reminder that there are always trade-offs to any policy change.
By the end of that terrible decade for financial assets, the dominant strategist on Wall Street was Henry Kaufman of Salomon Brothers, who delighted in the moniker of "Doctor Doom .The rise of hedge funds has also played a big part.
It is also threatening to break up Britain's Lloyds Banking Group and force asset sales and limit dominant market positions at Royal Bank of Scotland and other European lenders who took help.
The crux of the issue is that Lehman, as a dominant provider of both complex derivative assets to funds and a prominent insurer of credit default swaps, was an essential conduit for hedge funds investing in these esoteric areas.
Assets: 70% of dominant brewer Bavaria.
The dominant investing advisory model, based on assets under management (AUM), is bad for many investors.
