Over the past few decades, multinational corporations have grown significantly in terms of size, assets, resource control and revenue, not to mention societal influence.
To evaluate socioeconomic status, we asked about household size, assets, income, and education.
We have also incorporated important socio-demographic characteristics, such as family size, asset holding and source of income.
Adjusting for size, asset management firms on average charge mutual funds 67 cents per $100 invested, versus 28 cents for pension funds, representing a 140% premium, according to "Mutual Fund Advisory Fees: The Cost of Conflicts of Interest," a 2001 study by academics John Freeman and Stewart Brown.
When Prudential of Britain agreed last week to buy American General, the big Texas life insurer, for $26.5 billion, the deal left the Liberty Financial Companies, a modest-size asset-management company in Boston, out in the cold.
The independent variables include hospital size (Total Assets), capital structure (Financial Leverage), profitability (Profit Margin), operating efficiency (Asset Turnover, Days Patients Accounts Receivable, and Average Age Of Plant), asset liquidity (Current Ratio and Days Cash On Hand), and labor costs (Salary to Revenue).
After all, the support these firms received was based on the size of assets before the financial panic began, not the size of those assets today.
Anecdotally, we know that size and assets are critical.
These are like super-polls and have extraordinary amounts of material on family size, household assets and so on.
Following the near-collapse of Equitable Life in 1999 the Financial Services Authority FSAA) introduced tougher rules on the size of assets that life insurers need to keep to safeguard policyholders' funds.
Social investment for charities is dependent on their size and assets For many smaller charities, loan financing may not be the way forward.
