But these would entail some transaction costs and some portfolio risk.
Alliance & Leicester said it would outsource some transaction processing and give managers incentives to reduce costs.
Moreover, Mr. Sauter noted, an index fund incurs some transaction costs when switching to a new index.
And though they had originally thought of charging some transaction fee, they decided against it, Mr. Keenan said.
The lesson is that ownership counts, a view that as disaster piles on disaster is at last gaining some transaction.
"From the recipient organization's perspective, having a gift from $1, $100, $1,000, to $100 million, there are some transaction costs," Mr. Rooney said.
Kengeter said a vote for Britain to leave the union could affect some transaction volumes but that "the overall proposition is not endangered at all".
If one ignores tax considerations, there are several ways that Mr. Cheney could lock in the current price, minus some transaction costs.
"With the current uncertainty over the rules, you cannot be sure when you can enter in some transaction or whether your counterparties are adequate or not," said another person in the industry.
On a recent earnings call, Chase Carey, News Corporation's president and chief operating officer, said: "We always seem to be the topic of the day when it comes to a rumor of some transaction".
He and the other litigants here had already raised their voices once, when their frustration over some transaction gone awry led them to file their cases in what is colloquially known as small claims court, and they raised them again, as the clerk called each of their names, plaintiffs and defendants.
