Sentence examples for understood asset from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps the most important, but least understood, asset Janet Yellen would bring to the table is an ability to manage the fractious F.O.M.C.," he wrote, referring to the Fed's policy-making Federal Open Market Committee.

After underlining her talents and arguing that Fed minutes show she was among the first to foresee the extent of the financial crisis, Blinder delivered the killer blow: "Perhaps the most important, but least understood, asset Janet Yellen would bring to the table is an ability to manage the fractious FOMC [the rate-setting Federal open market committee].

But I think we can also say that even beforehand, writing this much insurance — $63 billion worth — on illiquid, poorly understood assets was a questionable decision.

This issue comes to the fore when trying to understand asset vulnerability to current and future weather events in the context of a changing climate.

As for how the venture world has changed since they started investing, Lefkofsky believes that with venture returns so mixed, it's a "hard to understand asset class".

The ensuing bust was made more dangerous because of the second weakness: the complex interconnections of securitised finance meant that no one understood what assets were worth or who owed what.

"I simply did not understand the asset forms.

The family business in Warroad, Minnesota that didn't lay off a single one of their four thousand employees during this recession, even when their competitors shut down dozens of plants, even when it meant the owners gave up some perks and pay – because they understood their biggest asset was the community and the workers who helped build that business – they give me hope.

Many of those perceptions have since evaporated, but members of the task force say there is still a need to better understand the assets that often do not appear on balance sheets.

It is hard enough to understand how assets and revenues are transferred and allocated within Mr Li's empire as a whole; harder still to evaluate an acquisition in which Cheung Kong, Hutch and other bits of the group each end up with stakes in the target business.

"Throwing a thousand engineers at the problem won't solve it — it relies on domain expertise, a long history of people who have seen long cycles, and understand how assets perform," he said.