"The Dow is the quintessential financial asset and gold the ultimate in tangibles, " he says.
But since it is also seen as a financial asset, higher values are a signal to buy.
These instruments are called 'derivatives' because they derive from an underlying financial asset - in this case, share prices.
What is debt to Washington is a financial asset for you and me.
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Adding a financial debt and an equivalent financial asset to a community will cause the elimination of both when summed.
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If you're buying a financial asset, you're exposed to the skills, or the lack thereof, of the people running those businesses.
Rising home prices should help buoy consumer confidence and the broader economy because houses represent the largest financial asset for many Americans.
For most households, home equity remains their largest single financial asset.
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When the price of a financial asset rises, demand generally increases.
In its interim stages, it lifts financial asset prices more than employment, destroys the purchasing power of savings, and may result in much higher commodity prices.
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Under the current federal aid formula, money in a 529 savings account owned by a parent counts the same as any other nonretirement parental financial asset.
The post-1971 U.S. dollar-based monetary system permitted an explosion of credit, which naturally favored the credit industry directly, and the entire financial asset-holding investoriat, indirectly, at the expense of the middle and lower classes.
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The second and no doubt leading contributor to the gold bubble has been the world financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent worldwide central bank policy of monetary expansion to fight financial asset price deflation.
Last year's budget agreement tacked an additional six months onto the time an individual must hold a financial asset in order to have the lower capital gains rate applied instead of the regular income tax rate.
You continue to assume that hiring even ditch diggers has no positive effect on output, which it does, and then argue that the debt becomes a burden on the private sector when it is, in fact, a financial asset that they have added to their portfolio.
Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, financial asset-holding and the access to and quality of public services since the first free elections in 1994, the current (2011) unemployment rate is 21 per cent and over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.
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To alter the metaphor, it was rather like an Olympic athlete on steroids: basically impressive, but made to look even more so by the artificial stimulus of a financial-asset boom.
Khuzami also added five additional units to oversee various areas of the financial industry: asset management, large scale market abuses, complex derivatives and financial products, foreign bribery and corruption, and the municipal and public pension markets.
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The crowdfunding industry has arrived and leading financial firms like Asset Alliance are embracing it.
At my firm, we serve affluent high-net-worth individuals, families and businesses with financial planning, asset management and private equity services.
Executive stipends for financial planning: Many executives receive stipends they can apply towards financial planning and asset management services.
The IRS group is focusing on many kinds of financial instruments and asset classes, from derivatives to real estate such as, say, a stake in a winery in Europe as well as trusts, royalty and licensing agreements, revenue-based or equity-sharing arrangements, private foundations, privately held companies and partnerships.
Massachusetts Financial Services, an asset manager, has banned soft-dollar commissions (opaque kickbacks from brokers).
Ideally, your divorce financial planner also will have additional advanced training in divorce financial planning strategies and asset protection.
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Finally, its support of the financial system with massive asset purchases in frozen markets, including commercial paper, mortgage backed securities, and currently Treasury notes.
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In August 1998, after the Russian government had defaulted on its debts, liquidity suddenly evaporated from many financial markets, causing asset prices to plunge.
David Financial Group, Select Asset Management and the estate of Joel David Salinas, who committed suicide last month by apparently shooting himself in his Friendswood, Tex.
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This means that the share price and the net-asset value are one and the same, but it also means that portfolio managers are slaves to financial fashion: when an asset class becomes popular, money comes pouring in and they must buy.
Mr Key, a 47-year-old former Merrill Lynch investment banker, has highlighted his financial-sector experience as an asset in a political leader at a time when an understanding of complex financial issues is paramount.
Again, there is no question the financial stimulus has pushed up asset prices.
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