Their pay and assets will not appear to fall in numeric terms as inflation pushes up the value of all the things they need to buy, whilst pegging their income and assets value to a never rising floor.
Private investors will not commit capital to productive assets when the value of those assets is losing ground to inflation.
Management of these companies has, over time, caused the value of assets it has acquired to decrease so much that the cumulative value destroyed exceeds the value of all their assets currently.
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Of course, it would take only a 23% fall in the assets' value to make the equity worthless.
How much longer will they want to keep piling up assets whose value shows no sign of doing anything but fall?
If you're paying between 1% and 2% of your assets' value, you may want to investigate why expenses are that high, especially if you're in a larger 401(k) plan.
Unfortunately, he completed the transformation just as the telecoms boom was coming to an end, leaving Marconi with hefty debts and a range of overpriced assets whose value was steadily dwindling.
When rates rise, the value of the assets goes down while the value of the liabilities remains unchanged.
Banks need to keep a ratio between the value of their assets and the amount of money they're lending out and because of this mortgage crisis and because of the fears surrounding it, the value of the assets they have on their books has fallen.
If the value of the assets shrinks, so does the value of the CEO.
One way or another, the value of most assets is derived from the present value of these cash flows.
She backed out the value of nonnuclear assets to come up with an enterprise value for nuclear power plant owners.
They are saying that a weak dollar is forcing Central Banks around the world to turn to other currencies and hard assets because they are losing value on their dollar based assets.
Watson explains that what was once a niche sector is now seeing barriers to entry fall, but markets have yet to realize that the underlying value of pipeline assets is substantially higher than the market value of those companies.
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It required banks to write down the value of assets (such as long-term bonds) to market value, even if the banks intended to hold them until maturity.
Under mark-to-market, banks value assets as if they were going to sell them now.
With the Paulson plan, the taxpayer ends up owning toxic assets of questionable value.
But this implies that Berkshire recorded these assets at a value which was unrealistic, which is not the case.
For harder-to-value assets--say, artwork, real estate or an interest in a family business or partnership--the appraisal is a safer bet.
The ranking measures a composite of sales, profits, assets and market value.
We depart from tradition this year by considering profits, assets and market value, rather than sales alone, in determining which companies are biggest.
The valuation is made when you set up the trust, and it is done by subtracting from the assets transferred the value of your annuity.
To use the tool, parents or students input financial data, such as income, assets, the value of their home and the number of family members.
The issue of valuing hard-to-value assets has hovered over all sorts of investment funds holding illiquid assets ever since the credit crisis hit financial markets.
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The SEC issued a letter yesterday spelling out guidelines that appear to give companies a little more leeway to value assets as they see fit.
Not only have assets dropped in value, liabilities have also risen.
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Japan's biggest bank by assets and market value is keen to expand outside its domestic market, where loan demand is sluggish following two decades of economic stagnation.
Based on our Global 2000 composite ranking for sales, profits, assets and market value, Citic, a newcomer to the list, ranks 1740 in its Global 2000 debut.
In April, we revealed our Forbes Global 2000 list, the 2000 biggest companies in the world based on composite rankings for sales, profits, assets and market value.
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Under this rule supervisors should require financial institutions to value assets using a long-term moving average when they are pledged (explicitly or implicitly) as collateral for new credit.
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