About a quarter of Alaska's oil and gas royalties goes into an entity called the Permanent Fund, the assets of which are managed by investment professionals.

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Let's hope this program is modeled on the one in Alaska: About one-fourth of the state's oil and gas royalties goes into an entity called the Permanent Fund, the assets of which are managed by investment professionals.

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The bill aims to make the UK's regime for freezing the assets of terrorist suspects more permanent, following a Supreme Court ruling in February.

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One highly sensitive and contentious political and investment question is whether the prospects for taxpayers getting all their money back would be enhanced if the government took permanent ownership of RBS's residual stinky assets, ran them down over the next decade, and only privatised a completely cleaned up bank next year (see here for more on this).

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But he ignores the fact that savers are incurring permanent losses by being deprived of normal rates of return on risk-free assets.

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Gold tends to have low correlation with other financial assets and there is a credible argument that gold should have a permanent place in portfolios because of that diversification benefit.

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