They fall into two broad categories: Is the Fed disrupting markets by removing assets from circulation?
Minority shareholders have been pressing for changes, especially within the company's management, which they say has been running the company inefficiently for years and, more recently, removing assets.
Pricewaterhouse claims that Lehman in New York transferred $8 billion out of its European subsidiary just before filing for bankruptcy, a move that could have blocked European hedge fund clients from removing assets.
New policies can help poor women build wealth, such as removing asset limits for public benefits, refundable tax credits for dependents, matched savings and retirement accounts, and access to credit for micro-business development.
In recent years the family drew attention when Mr. Pritzker's two youngest children, Liesel and Matthew, filed a lawsuit claiming that he had removed assets from trust funds and directed them to other parts of the business.
Such transactions were sometimes used to remove assets from banks' balance-sheets, helping them to meet rules on loan-deposit ratios and capital.Under old rules banks did not have to attribute much capital to an interbank loan.
Finally, the fact that you and your spouse are not in the best of health could indeed mean that a local authority could take the view that you set up a trust specifically to remove assets from the means test (bearing in mind that your house wouldn't necessarily be included anyway).
Off balance sheet accounting refers to the methods a company can use to remove assets and liabilities, as well as income and expenses, from its balance sheet and income statement.
If Congress agrees to remove asset information from the form and the formula, the EFC will be based on income and family demographics alone.
Fed officials say that they are more concerned that asset purchases will destabilize financial markets, by removing safe assets from circulation, increasing the volatility of prices, or encouraging too much speculation.
In the US, Syracuse University is the largest to divest from coal, oil and gas while Stanford University is removing its assets from coal companies.
