Viewed in this light, the move by big banks to formalize their view that account holders shouldn't be
buying these assets with cash they don't actually have, isn't really news at all.
The most basic trend - following strategy is
buying assets with strong one - year returns and shorting assets with poor one - year returns.
But
buying assets with low correlations to each other makes you better off, since their returns will tend to balance each other out.
Yet HNA kept
buying assets with the help of offshore financing and snapped up 245 Park and the East 64th Street townhouse.
As odd as it sounds, you lost $ 2,313 in net earnings, or 4.6 % of what you had been indirectly generating each year, despite
buying an asset with a higher look - through yield.
There is nothing better for investors than to
buy an asset with an expanding value at an attractive price.
Renowned farming operator Australian Food & Fibre has been in negotiations to
buy the asset with a partner likely to include listed agricultural player Webster — backed by businessman Christopher Corrigan.
When a central bank
buys assets with electronically printed...
i once read that if you are
buying an asset with a hope that someone else is willing to pay higher price then you are probably speculating.
But I wouldn't
buy the asset with all cash (who would?)
«Certainly opportunities have already been arising, so REITs look for the assets and then look for the capital to
buy those assets with,» emphasizes Case.
Not exact matches
It could mean going into a Canadian equity growth mandate,
buying emerging markets, or playing
with even riskier
assets.
The converse applies in down turns, cut production to maintain price value and cut costs and improve efficiencies, Additionally use low cost debt to
buy assets for future development
with debt to be repaid in booms.
«The BOJ may initially try to settle
with minor tweaks to its existing
asset -
buying program.
Certainly Microsoft will be
buying a fast - growing, well - positioned global
asset with an unbeatable brand.
The difference between the two approaches is a subtle one in that the central bank's current policy tool - a 101 trillion yen ($ 1 trillion) program of
asset buying and lending - also expands the BOJ's balance sheet, which at a third of GDP is a bigger proportion of the economy compared
with those of the U.S. and European Union's central banks.
Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its
asset -
buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states
with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.
Bond investors like mutual funds and pension funds hope to
buy securities
with comparatively higher yields than other
asset - backed debt that could also provide diversification benefits.
For more than two decades, Charles Edwardes - Ker, a vice-president and portfolio manager
with TD
Asset Management, has been looking for good Japanese stocks to
buy.
Silver Lake Resources is selling off its non-core
assets in the Murchison region,
with Metals X acquiring its Comet gold project and Musgrave Minerals agreeing to
buy a large portion of its Cue project.
«Particularly
with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those
with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to
buy and acquire
assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.
This demonstrates a demand for the option to
buy homes
with digital
assets over traditional ones.
When it comes to diversifying
with alternative
asset classes, Bennyhoff also thinks investors should be wary of
buying into the latest alternative mutual funds or ETFs tracking different
assets.
Vodafone revived talks in February about
buying Liberty's cable
assets in continental Europe,
with the main prize being Germany's Unitymedia.
Still, 80 % of analysts have a
Buy rating on Valeant, and some argue the company is already funding innovation, just in a different form: «The company is effectively «outsourcing» R&D by acquiring companies
with late - stage, early - growth
assets instead,» writes Nomura analyst Shibani Malhotra.
Escalating capital costs, occurring simultaneously
with the growth of
buy - side
assets and revenues, indicate that the industry is moving toward leveraging benchmarks and other index products aimed at passive investors.
Competitors, such as Disney, which has agreed to
buy 21st Century Fox
assets, could potentially pull viewers from Netflix
with plans to launch their own streaming services.
Moonves spoke
with Julia Boorstin at CNBC's Net / Net event on Thursday evening as word was leaking out that Comcast and Verizon were sniffing around the same
assets of Twenty - First Century Fox that Disney was said to be in talks to
buy.
Comcast - Universal
with the NBC transition: The part that is different — certainly there are similarities in that you're
buying a content producer and the various media
assets that NBC Universal had — however, NBC was a broadcaster, which is a form of distribution, which was being
bought by Comcast, which was a cable operator trying to
buy media.
The New York Times» James Stewart discusses Disney CEO Bob Iger's staying
with the company past his 2019 contract as Disney
buys some of Twenty - First Century Fox's
assets.
LONDON, March 27 - Global oil traders Vitol and Glencore are in talks to financially back Nigerian firms racing to
buy assets owned by Brazil's Petrobras valued at up to $ 2 billion, several sources familiar
with the matter said.
There is a popular notion the Federal Reserve of today has gone wild
with the printing press — thanks to
buying up all the dodgy
assets of the financial sector.
With rates at near zero in the United States, and negative in Japan and Europe, the differential is a powerful lure for carry trades, in which investors borrow at ultra-low rates in currencies such as yen or sterling and
buy high - yielding
assets such as the kiwi.
With the news on Thursday that Disney had
bought much of 21st Century Fox's entertainment and TV
assets for an estimated $ 52.4 billion, the reality that Hollywood is on the brink of a seismic change is starting to hit those in the industry.
The electronics retailer is said to be in talks
with a private equity firm that could
buy its
assets out of bankruptcy.
His tenure as Fed vice-chair coincided
with the period in which the U.S. central bank was more cautious — likely too cautious — about toying
with unorthodox tools such as
asset -
buying policies.
Pebble is about to be ground down into its components and sold off,
with Fitbit
buying its key
assets (that is, software).
Obeying the robot overlord
Asset allocation often begins
with an online tool that asks questions such as, «If your stocks lost 10 percent, would you sell, stay the same or
buy more?»
Among the cases for homeownership is the opportunity to
buy a rising
asset with borrowed money.
As the cost of sequencing plummeted in sync
with the rise of computer processing power, Harper saw an undervalued
asset for drug discovery: Amgen
bought the company in 2012 for $ 415 million.
And emphasizing its new focus
with its biggest acquisition ever, the company agreed to
buy the electric - power
assets of France's Alstom for some $ 13 billion.
The platform allows users to
buy, sell and discover crypto
assets like CryptoKitties
with zero fees.
«We think we're
buying this
asset at the right time and
with the combined teams... we're going to have a stronger story in the marketplace and I think we could put the Coveris Americas
assets back onto the growth rate,» Olivier told analysts.
Its mid-term targets include
buying rivals
with 10 to 15 billion francs total worth of
assets under management each year, which should bring
assets under management to between 121 and 131 billion francs by 2008.
This approach isn't as efficient as Amazon's giant fulfillment centers filled
with robots, but Best
Buy's plan used its current
assets, turning its network of stores into an advantage.
A failed business may simply cease operations;
with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge
with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be
bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its
assets.
But taking out debt to
buy an
asset as volatile as Bitcoin — as some investors seem to be doing
with their credit cards — is risky on a personal finance level.
For Tzell, that's been based largely on expanding its independent agent model into a form of consolidation that's really a partnership
with other travel agencies, allowing it to leverage their volume without actually
buying the partner's
assets.
Basically, it's moving in and out of the stock market
with the intention of minimizing losses and
buying investments when they're on the rise to eventually sell at a premium, says Ben Barzideh, wealth advisor at Piershale Financial Group in Crystal Lake, Ill. «Instead of holding onto an
asset long - term, [you're]
buying and selling based on predicting future market movements.»
Part of this underperformance was due to selling during crashes and
buying during booms, part of it had to do
with frictional expenses such as brokerage commissions, capital gains taxes, and spreads, and part of it was the result of taking on too much risk by investing in
assets that weren't understood.