They think the new republic should be entitled to 31 per
cent of the assets of the UK, on the grounds that Scotland makes up 31 per cent of the present UK's landmass.
The report also observed that the expectation of generating a return of at least 8 per cent per annum is a «tall order» given that at least 50 per
cent of assets of the insurer are mandatorily to be backed by government securities (G - Secs), which currently yield about 6.7 per cent - 7.2 per cent annually.
Not exact matches
However, Loblaw only has 5 per
cent of the pharmacy market, making Shoppers an attractive
asset.
Aside borrowers, investors benefit from regular monthly returns at an average rate
of 15.5 per
cent, which is significantly higher than other
asset classes.
The company said Friday it earned net income
of $ 15 million or six
cents per share in the last three months
of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by
asset sales.
Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25 per
cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition
of the Chilagoe base metal
assets from the liquidators
of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.
Real estate
assets in Canada accounted for 40 per
cent of total wealth in 2012, he pointed out, as opposed to only 32 per
cent in 1999.
Nedlands - based TFS Corporation has achieved a record full - year profit
of $ 82.5 million, up 48 per
cent on the back
of increased plantation
asset ownership.
In a statement the company said the two acquisitions delivered the company significant expenditure savings, estimating that the
assets were acquired at approximately 8 per
cent of the replacement cost.
What some companies would consider an inconvenience, Courtney Brown, CEO
of Cents of Style, views as her most valuable
asset — and the results show.
Successful diversified Perth - based miner Straits Resources Ltd is planning to spin - off 40 per
cent of its major
asset into a new, initially energy - based clone in Singapore later this year.
TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per
cent annual return on the billions
of dollars in
assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level
of growth likely won't soon be repeated.
With the existing $ 5,500 - per - year contribution limit, all but the top few per
cent of families will soon be able to shelter all
of their
assets from taxation.
The loss was largely due to a $ 916 million impairment charge on its long - lived
assets, stemming both from a major tax and export dispute between its 64 - per -
cent owned Acacia Mining and the Tanzanian government, and the partial writedown
of its Pascua Lama project after the Chilean government ordered it to close all surface facilities.
The 8.3 per
cent decrease stemmed largely from the sale
of Transcontinental's media
assets.
Excluding restructuring costs,
asset impairments and the impact
of U.S. tax reform, adjusted earnings were $ 48.6 million or 63
cents per share.
The value
of CMHC's
assets dropped to $ 252 billion in 2015, down 14 per
cent from 2012.
The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value
of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate
of 50 per
cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years
of owning the
asset.
In 2005 according to my calculations with the Survey
of Household Spending, a $ 100,000 per family TFSA would have shielded about 46 per
cent of taxable
assets from taxation, assuming taxable
assets were not left outside the TFSA when TFSA room was available.
Excluding
asset impairment and restructuring costs, Coke earned 50
cents per share, up 2 percent from a year earlier and ahead
of analysts» estimates
of 49
cents a share.
Highly geared and ASX - listed Yancoal paid $ US2.69 billion ($ 3.6 billion) for the
assets last year, but swiftly struck a deal to on - sell 49 per
cent of the HVO mine to Glencore, which had long carried a torch for the Rio Tinto
assets.
(Australia ended policy similar to supply management in 2000; a tax
of 11
cents per litre was applied to milk and producers were then paid out for the extra but artificial value
of their supply - managed
assets.)
P&G will take a noncash charge
of 28
cents per share to write down goodwill and intangible
assets, and adjust fiscal 2014 results to reflect Duracell as a discontinued operation.
Because
of the Durbin amendment, as
of October 1, 2011, debit interchange is capped for transactions (21
cents, plus 5 basis points -LRB-.05 %), plus an additional penny for issuers that qualify for fraud) for debit cards issued by banks and credit unions with $ 10 billion in
assets or more.
For its part, ISS has indicated upwards
of 60 per
cent of the
assets it represents have their own voting guidelines.
Overall, the government sector is reported to have hedged about 70 per
cent of its foreign currency
asset exposure using derivatives.
As at the end
of March 2013, international investment position (IIP) data indicated that Australian entities overall had a net foreign currency
asset position equivalent to 27 per
cent of GDP before taking into account the use
of derivatives for hedging purposes (ABS 2013a).
Since the early 1980s, the proportion
of household financial
assets held as deposits has fallen from about 50 per
cent to below 30 per
cent; this has been mirrored by a comparable rise in the proportion
of household
assets held as claims on life insurance and superannuation funds (Graph 11).
With funds managers holding about 15 - 20 per
cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition
of household
assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.
This net position in turn consisted
of foreign currency
asset holdings equivalent to about 20 per
cent of GDP, with more than three - quarters
of this in the form
of equity investment (including direct investment by multinational companies in their offshore operations).
The sector held foreign currency
assets equivalent to about 4 per
cent of GDP, with the majority
of these likely to reflect investments by the Australian Government's Future Fund.
(a) Share
of total Australian dollar
assets (per
cent), subcomponents are the share
of liquid
assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store
of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock
of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will, in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes notes and coins, Australian dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised
assets (excluding self - securitised
assets)
The general government sector — which consists
of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency
asset position equivalent to around 3 per
cent of GDP as at the end
of March 2013, before taking into account the use
of derivatives for hedging purposes (Table 2).
This net foreign currency
asset position before hedging has increased from 7 per
cent of GDP from the end
of March 2009, driven by a decline in the value
of foreign currency denominated liabilities.
After accounting for the use
of hedging derivatives, the FCE survey indicates that the overall net foreign currency
asset position
of other financial corporations was equivalent to 16 per
cent of GDP, with a hedging ratio
of around 35 per
cent for foreign currency
assets and 60 per
cent for foreign currency liabilities (Table 1).
On Tuesday came the announcement
of Citigroup losing 53 per
cent of an internal hedge fund's money in a month and bringing $ 17 billion
of assets that had been hiding out in the Cayman Islands back onto its balance sheet.
In fact, over half
of asset managers reported that reputational risks are already negatively impacting oil company valuations, and a further 25 per
cent predicted they will impact value in the next two years.
My two
cents: carbon
assets are going to be left in the ground for a variety
of reasons, not least
of which is emission constraints (that I think is the least
of the reasons given the power
of corporations and financiers over government).
He adds that many real estate agents are also focused on a Chinese pilot program that's being tested in five cities, including Shanghai, that allows wealthy individuals to invest at least 50 per
cent of their
assets in foreign markets.
It is the largest provider
of custody in Canada, with just over 40 per
cent of assets under administration, and a leader in correspondent banking services.
The stock
of banks» non-performing loans, for example, declined from a peak equivalent to 6 per
cent of total
assets in March 1992 to 4 per
cent in June 1993.
Canadian fixed income
assets rebounded in Q1 2017, posting a return
of 1.4 per
cent, compared to a Q4 2016 loss
of -3.4 per
cent.
Also associated with these actions, the company anticipates one - time charges
of approximately $ 160 million, or approximately 33
cents per share, (
of which approximately $ 115 million is expected to be cash) to be booked in the fourth quarter
of 2017 for restructuring activities,
asset impairment, store closings and other costs.
In 2012, individuals with incomes below $ 20,000 held 17 per
cent of all TFSA
assets, but families with those incomes held less than four per
cent.
Individuals with incomes below $ 60,000 held 63 per
cent of all TFSA
assets, but for families in that income range the share was just 31 percent.
Approximately 42 per
cent of all
assets in stock funds are now in passive funds that track indexes, up from 24 per
cent in 2010, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Over the past couple
of years, speculators have also used short sales
of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other
assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per
cent, well below the rate
of return available on US
assets.
At the end
of the 2017 fiscal year (March 31), 21.5 per
cent of the
assets were invested in fixed income securities with another 23.1 per
cent in real
assets (real estate, infrastructure, etc..)
Analysts estimate Bunnings will account for at least 50 per
cent of Wesfarmers» earnings and about 60 per
cent of its value after Coles is demerged and the sale
of the coal
assets is completed.
In the case
of investment, fixed -
asset investment increased by 21 per
cent over the year to December.