Social capital refers to assets in the form of family relations, connections, and contacts with, for example, former school peers, whereas economic capital simply refers to economic assets in an ordinary sense, such as money and property.
The term "current assets" refers to assets that are used to pay a company's obligations and liabilities within a year.
One issue is enforceability: many sukuk contracts are governed by English law but refer to assets located in the Gulf.
A Salomon spokeswoman said that this assessment referred to assets under management held by the WorldCom executives in their brokerage accounts.
Some of the companies listed below are not British firms, but the investments shown refer to assets based in Britain.
"These assets are going to be upstream, which are typically more valuable," Fernandez says, referring to assets for the production of oil and gas.
Fortunes denoted with the phrase and family refer to assets that may be held by a spouse and children, not by extended family members.
Fortunes denoted with the phrase "and family" refer to assets that may be held by a spouse and children but not by extended family members.
"People sell dollars and buy assets priced in dollars," explains Keith R. McCullough of Research Edge LLC, a New Haven, Conn., market service, referring to assets like foreign currencies or securities denominated in foreign currencies, gold, oil or even real estate or whole companies.
People close to Barclays say the complaint by the creditors of Lehman's estate misconstrues what happened, and that the numbers reflected in the complaint referred to asset values at the beginning of the week when the deal was signed, not by the end of a volatile week when the deal was presented to the judge.
The committee, based in Basel, Switzerland, at the Bank for International Settlements, called for improving the quality of the so-called Tier 1 capital base, which refers to liquid assets that banks have to retain as a cushion.
