Insurance companies can't go out and back their annuities with hedge funds or private equity or even just an ordinary stock portfolio, because, unlike an employer, they can't count on boosting their reserves with revenue from their "regular" lines of business; for insurers, this is their business.
I found a huge collection of green frog clip art, pirated mp3s and some ordinary art portfolio sites.
He had lots of ordinary income from his portfolio alongside big trading losses.
ALTHOUGH the long-predicted resurgence in the economy has been painfully slow to emerge - and may not be so robust as many still hope - most brokers, portfolio managers and ordinary householders appear to share a remarkable agreement about investment fundamentals.
Interest is taxed as ordinary income, so increasing your portfolio's yield could also increase your tax bill.
Under ordinary circumstances, managing a corporate bond portfolio is like juggling a half-dozen oranges.
If the portfolio sinks, you wind up with ordinary (that is, high-taxed) income from the option premium, but lower long-term gains.
It is also a problem for ordinary investors who have traditionally tried to protect their portfolios by spreading risk over a broad basket of assets, so that if some go down in price, others will increase.
But one thing both campaigns talked about was closing the so-called carried interest tax loophole, which allows fund managers to classify returns on portfolio investments as long-term capital gains rather than ordinary income.
AOL also said it "expects to utilize approximately $40 million of its existing deferred tax assets, representing approximately 20percentt of its total deferred tax assets, to offset any ordinary income taxes resulting from the license of its remaining patent portfolio".
