Christopher P. Bogart, the chief executive of Burford, who was once a general counsel at Time Warner, said his firm was a passive investor, providing capital without seeking to influence the court proceedings.
Adding another wrinkle, under the 2010 health care law, a new 3.8 percent tax on passive income -- dividends, capital gains, interest and other unearned income sources -- goes into effect for high earners in 2013.
The public-employee pension fund of Nevada, which manages thirty-five binvestsdollars, ininety ninety per cent of its capital through such passive strategies.
We could speak of passive network building or social capital that can be mobilized.
Private equity firms organized limited partnerships to hold investments in which the investment professionals served as general partner and the investors, who were passive limited partners, put up the capital.
Passive aggression or passiveness.
Yes, of course all great capital cities are slightly passive-aggressive.
The surtax will apply to interest, capital gains, annuities, rents, royalties, passive activity income and dividends.
These gains could be from selling the property in question at a capital gain or from owning other passive investments, like oil wells.
