Not having many physical assets makes it easy for these companies to shirk responsibility.
Many of the early HMOs, like Humana, shed their physical assets like hospitals decades ago.
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Iridium has other important physical assets, aside from the satellites and the hoagie-sized phones.
Hamas has lost massively in terms of physical assets but gained hugely in sympathy.
The result is that they purchase more physical assets from the same vendors they already know.
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Still others prefer to look at the value of a firm's physical assets (such as buildings and equipment).
The classic inflation hedge strategy is to buy physical assets with borrowed money.
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The BEA publishes the basic numbers on both GDP and the physical assets that are used to produce GDP.
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This means that our physical assets lasted more than a third longer in 1966 than they did 43 years later.
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So, what changed between 1966 and 2009 that could cause us to create less durable physical assets and induce massive malinvestment?
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Debenhams also has fewer physical assets underpinning its increased debt these days.
Today those things are more important than physical assets: managements and systems.
Rising values of physical assets comes from more assets, or higher price tags on the assets, which means the economy is moving forward.
Silver, like gold, benefited from increased interest in physical assets after the financial crisis, as investors sought safer places to park their cash.
Enterprises are also beginning to embrace IoT for tracking physical assets, managing customer relationships, and creating efficiencies in business operations and supply chains.
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Either way, mutual funds have no physical assets and no employees.
The makers have pushed much of their intellectual property away to the first tier of component suppliers, which have taken physical assets along with the necessary skills.
Sceptics have an obvious rejoinder to the observation that bubbles can leave behind useful physical assets: those assets, they say, would eventually have been built anyway, and on better terms.
Unlike a stock or bond, for which you loan money to an entity with the expectation of earning a return for the risk you took, buying commodities is like buying physical assets.
In telecoms, for instance, private-equity firms are mostly trying to buy established firms often former national monopolists that, while they might be threatened by internet telephony, have strong cash flow, physical assets and plenty of scope to improve the quality of management.
Without reeling off any more facts and acquisition figures, the key point to register is that wherever you look, China is linking physical assets to virtual trades, not just to feed gas market liquidity, but to rebalance WTI and Brent for oil.
With physical mining assets and a solid commodities trading house, Glasenberg is looking to rival the likes of Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Vale.
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Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of physical storage assets.
Once again, physical North American assets play a pivotal role in this respect.
How a company is structured, its physical locations and assets, its management, its ability to efficiently finance its operations, and its dividend policy all factor into performance.
The problem that should keep CEOs up at night is that most IT departments have trouble keeping track of the assets in a physical data center.
By laying a modern foundation in a country whose physical plants usually lag its intellectual assets, Singh put Gurgaon on the map as a destination for global companies.
Failures re-price their assets (human and physical) and try other experiments but the whole process supports tens of millions of workers who gain experience and incomes.
You can also opt for gold-backed securities like the SPDR Gold Shares ETF ( GLD), in which assets are backed by physical gold held in trust for shareholders.
Create a written IT security policy that identifies critical assets and defines policies for physical security, account management, and backup and recovery among other areas.
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