Not exact matches
The cuts show the immense power large
asset managers have to curb fees they pay
banks and the diminishing role of sell -
side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.
On the plus
side,
Asset Management added 160 private
bank client advisors in 2011.
If that's the case then the portfolio's
asset allocation reflects the fact that you can take more risk on the equity
side — in the hope of better returns — as long as you're not
banking on those returns to enable you to live.
However, more
bank capital could reflect more risk - taking on the
asset side of the balance sheet.
On the bright
side, it correlates highly with
asset size, so maybe a list of the 20 largest
bank holding companies in the US would serve as well.
Comparing alchemy and central
banking is fitting, I think, with central bankers toying with the
asset side of the balance sheet, since liability policy has hit the zero bound.
After all, the
asset side of a
bank's balance sheet...
The Fed and other central
banks discovered the
asset side of their balance sheets, and began to allocate credit to non-standard
assets.
Keep in mind at TDW the $ 50k in
assets must be on the brokerage
side (Waterhouse) and does not include amounts in the
bank or at TD mutual funds.
Unorthodox measures, attempting to use the
asset side of the Fed's balance sheet to solve lending problems among
banks and broker - dealers.
Funding: More than one executive told us they spend a lot of time thinking about funding; one CEO suggested his
bank's biggest earnings risk was on the deposit -
side (i.e., that funding costs rise faster than
asset yields)
On the risk
side, divesting is about not getting stuck holding stranded fossil fuel
assets that can not be burnt if the world is to adhere to a given carbon budget, a topic on which Mark Carney, governor of the
Bank of England, has expressed concerns in a landmark speech to global insurer Lloyd's of London.
One company's founder even bills herself as the «Fairy Godmother of Divorce» These types of financing arrangements could provide some fairness in hotly contested divorce cases when one
side maintains control of
bank accounts and
assets during the litigation and therefore has the ability to hire lawyers, while the other
side may get locked out of accessing financial
assets before the divorce papers are even filed with the court.