But many bankers will be watching two other asset classes in 2009.
Two other asset-backed securities funds with exposure to subprime mortgages in the United States — run by Union Investment and HSBC Investments Deutschland — were closed last week.
The puzzle involves two other asset classes that have done rather well during the first five years of the decade, and they should continue to outperform during the second half of the decade.
Of the five other assets we looked at, only oil beat gridiron ownership.
But this ratio would have been higher were it not for banks shuffling off their dud loans to Cinda and China's three other asset-management companies (AMCs).In this section Who wants to be a mandarin?
The trade came at a high price for the Clippers, who dealt a rising star, guard Eric Gordon; the Minnesota Timberwolves' unprotected 2012 first-round selection; and two other valuable assets (Al-Farouq Aminu and Chris Kaman's expiring contract) to New Orleans.
Selling Thyssen's 30.1% stake in Germany's third mobile-telephone network, E-Plus, would raise around DM3 billion, but other assets such as Thyssen's property portfolio, which has a nominal value of DM3 billion, would be more difficult to liquidate.
Despite the arch-capitalist atmosphere, half the sheikhdom's top hotels, its airport, seaports, refinery, dry dock, aluminium smelter and two of its three banks, among other assets, are government-controlled.
