They want the chancellor to legislate for a lower ratio, of perhaps 25 to 1, and to give the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary the ratio, depending on prevailing financial conditions.
The lowest percentage of workless households was in 2006, at the height of the global financial bubble, when the ratio stood at 17.3%.
The authors found that a measure of financial depth the ratio of broad money to GDP helped to explain the size of reserves.
In 2007, before the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession, the employment-population ratio had fallen to 63%.
Overall the ambitions of austerity to reduce the debt-to-GDP-ratio, which had surged in the aftermath of the financial shock in 2008, has failed.
Obviously if the derivative assets were included in the balance sheet as they are under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) rules, the price-to-book ratio would be significantly lower.
The company is in excellent financial health, as its debt-to-capital ratio has steady improved since the 1990s and now stands at around 30%, Thompson says.
The 0.95% expense ratio may be reduced by interest income earned on cash and financial instruments since the fund will get its desired exposure with leveraged swaps while maintaining a large cash position.
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So from a financial perspective, the oil-to-gas ratio is very different than in terms of energy.
Japan's Financial Services Agency said in May the bad loan ratio at the country's 11 biggest banks had fallen from 5.18% a year ago to just 2.93% today.
Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).
American commercial banks were subject to a leverage ratio in the run-up to the financial crisis: they still ran into trouble.
The second measure comes from the International Monetary Fund, which found that if private credit grows faster than the economy for three to five years, the increasing ratio of private credit to GDP usually signals financial distress.
Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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Fortunately, farmers are in better financial shape these days: the debt-to-asset ratio, over 25% in the crisis years of the 1980s, is now closer to 15%, notes Bob Stutzman, of Prudential Agricultural Investments.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
Britain's highish ratio reflects the City's longstanding role as an international financial centre.
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Its ratio of corporate debt to GDP was 49%, the ratio of household debt to GDP was just 31% and financial sector debt was just 14% of GDP.
The aggregate tier one common capital ratio - assets held in reserve as a buffer against financial troubles - would fall from an actual 11.1% in the third quarter of 2012 to 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the hypothetical stress scenario.
Only Ally Financial, of the 18 banks under review, fell short of the desired 5% capital ratio under a severely adverse scenario.
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The report found strong evidence that involvement of financial advisors results in inferior risk-return trade-offs, as measured by the Sharpe ratio, regardless of advisory model.
Finally, in keeping with our commitment to transparency, Development began the process of posting its technical debt ratio continuously for all our company to see, along with our financial results.
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