Rebalancing is difficult because it forces you to sell the asset class that is performing well and buy more of your worst performing asset classes.
It also provided a small stipend to reduce the temptation to eat or sell the asset immediately, as well as weekly training sessions to teach them how to tend to animals and manage their households.
However, the price at which they can sell that asset in the future depends entirely on the perceptions and expectations of other people , which may depend further on those of others in the future.
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For a start the index funds buy futures a contract to buy or sell an asset at a future date not the physical good.
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Bailiffs have repeatedly threatened to sell off the company's biggest asset: Yuganskneftegas, the firm which produces 60% of its oil.
When done correctly and transparently, advocates say, third-party ownership is no different from a form of securitization: You unlock some of the equity in your asset and only pay the lender back when you sell up.
The PE industry is laboring under the burdens of high asset prices, the reluctance of Indian business owners to sell controlling stakes in the companies and virtually no viable exit options to provide liquidity.
The sell-off swept across markets and asset classes, while safe haven currencies strengthened and gold continues to set new highs.
This allows the original holder of the asset, or originator, to sell assets that it previously could not, while also moving risk off its books.
We have always said Alchemy was bad news for this plant - they are asset strippers who intended to sell off the best bits and leave people out of work.
The sell-side is keen to give them every service possible and the traders at the hedge funds and asset managers sit in their nice comfy offices trading away.
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As confidence has unravelled, investors have been forced to sell all those asset classes simultaneously, driving down prices across the board.
Across the board, investors had failed to take account of how fast and how far asset prices fall when everyone wants to sell at the same time.
Ferguson had been previously quoted as saying he would not sell his prize asset to Spanish side Real but Hughes believes the Scot would have been fully involved in the decision to offload Ronaldo.
Real estate derivatives are a way for investors to gain exposure to the asset class without the need to buy or sell properties by replacing the exposure of the real property to the performance of a real estate return index.
The government said it had no plans to sell Northern Rock (Asset Management).
Instead, it pays to own a selection of asset classes and to sell off gains systematically, using the cash to buy assets that have fallen out of favor.
One option that has repeatedly been raised is for the firm to sell all or part of its Neuberger and Berman asset-management unit, but that would leave it with a large proportion of assets impacted by the credit-market turmoil.
How can the pricey guru--or you--decide whether to sell an asset if you don't know its basis?
If you were to sell this fund, does it inadvertently tilt the balance of your holdings towards other asset classes?
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You pointed out that Treasury debt is also asset-backed in the sense that the govt has assets it can sell off (military bases, etc).
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On the other hand, you have to weigh that against the value that owning a home can add as an asset that you can later sell or borrow against to help provide for your retirement.
Every stock market cycle and every asset class bubble, people get sucked by a good story at the top and sell at the bottom in a panic.
Last year Allianz announced plans to build an army of 2, 000 financial planners who would sell Allianz (and other asset managers') funds in Germany on an open platform-may the best product win.
Aside from the autumn of 2008, when no one knew what to do with any asset except sell it, gold has not dropped below its long-term uptrend for more than a few days.
Now when someone who has a 100% loan on his danger asset loses his job, he cannot sell it and pay back his loan, because of the selling expenses.
"The sale of W New Orleans-French Quarter helps advance Starwood's asset-light strategy, as we continue to pursue opportunities to sell owned real estate at the right time to the right owners, " said Simon Turner, Starwood's president of global development.
Retail investors need to sell some of their U.S. Treasury bonds and buy Chile and Brazil, asset managers tell me all the time.
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The SEC has also announced it is proposing a rule that will force Wall Street firms that package and sell asset-backed securities like CDOs, to keep 5% of those packaged loans on their own books, so they will share the risk with those they sell the investments to.
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