Loans and securities which share the characteristics of loans in other words, assets that derive their value only from interest and repayment of principal will be held at cost, provided banks can show they will hold them for the long term.
In other words, assets in retail money market funds and small-denomination CDs rose by a staggering $3 billion daily in the first six weeks of this year.
In other words, assets are usually quite difficult to price, so you try to pay some amount well below what you think an asset is worth to minimize the impact of various issues that might impact the value of that asset.
When interest rates are at zero, the future returns expected from competing assets must also come down in other words, current asset prices must rise.
Small changes in beliefs about the future can have a surprisingly large effect on the value of the assets concernedIn other words, because asset prices are bets on a distant and uncertain future, they are inherently volatile.
When the bet went wrong with the bursting of the dotcom bubble, funds went into deficit.They accept that, in a crisis, correlations head towards one; in other words, all asset classes (except government bonds) tend to fall together.
"When you use words like asset allocation, you lose people.
In other words, the asset management industry — which reached $84.9 trillion in value in 2016 and is predicted to almost double to hit $145.4 trillion in 2025 — is about to be massively disrupted by blockchain technologies, and pioneers in this space are clubbing together to promote the tech and push for common standards.
Those fossil fuels could become, in other words, "stranded assets" that are, for all intents and purposes, useless.
Its stock rose slightly on Tuesday, on word of the possible asset sale.
