True, first tier assets are cheap, and those that are heavily invested in tend to bear fruit quickly.
For some second-tier assets, we foresee continued valuation pressure leading to continued down or flat rounds along with more recaps unless there is a significant positive change in the exit markets.
"Investors, other than Chinalco, are left with diluted exposure to core, tier 1 assets and increased exposure to the lower margin, downstream assets that Rio was unable to find a buyer for," they wrote.
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The easiest way of acquiring more tier-one assets to exploit during the next boom, while stripping out costs into the bargain, may be the revival of the mega-merger.
"We're drawn to top-tier hotel assets," Mr. Statz said, adding that Starwood owns Sheraton, Westin and St . Regishotels in cities including New York, Boston and San Francisco, the strongest hotel markets in the country.
Many of these firms, which tend not to produce ore as cheaply as the "majors", could go out of business.The proportion of existing mines in flabby middle-age is growing as the rate of discovery of new tier-one assets has slowed over recent years.
"She worked out why player loans would make sense for every kind of club – whether it was the top tier, with expensive assets not getting a game, or the lower tier like Birmingham who needed players but didn't want to risk paying transfer fees.
Our sources say that there are multiple parties are showing interest in the round, including top tier investors from various asset classes (early stage as well as late stage, and public company investors).
They would raise the threshold defining big banks for the purposes of the act from $250m to $1 billion and create a middle tier of banks with assets between these limits.
