Not exact matches
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For more than six months,
dollar - liability flows have outstripped
dollar -
asset flows but that is now reversing which is helping the
dollar,» said Hans Redeker, head of global FX strategy at Morgan Stanley based in London.
Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the US
dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite
for higher risk
assets such as stocks.
Contributions to HSAs are made with pretax
dollars (in most states),
assets grow tax - free, and distributions are tax - free if used to pay
for qualified medical expenses or as reimbursement
for such expenses.
Hannah Anderson of J.P. Morgan
Asset Management says the near - term focus is on oil prices ahead of an important meeting in June on OPEC - led oil curbs, but the weak
dollar is the longer - term variable
for markets.
As Marx foresaw, this process leads to monopoly and cartels as a few strong players drive weaker ones out of business or acquire their
assets for pennies on the
dollar.
SHANGHAI, March 21 - Global
asset managers are lobbying Beijing to offer tax benefits and other incentives to entice China's aging population to invest in mutual funds
for their retirement, as funds eye a multi-trillion
dollar opportunity in commercial pensions.
Profits have soared at buyout firms such as Carlyle in recent years, as a U.S. stock market rally allowed them to sell
assets for top
dollar.
LONDON, April 30 - Gold fell to its lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the
dollar strengthened and as easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite
for assets seen as higher risk, such as stocks.
Noble is pursuing a $ 3.4 billion debt restructuring - crucial
for the survival of the company - which has sold billions of
dollars of
assets, taken hefty writedowns and cut hundreds of jobs over the past three years to cut debt.
Embattled Noble has been negotiating a $ 3.4 billion debt -
for - equity swap — crucial to its survival — after selling billions of
dollars of
assets, taking hefty writedowns and cutting hundreds of jobs over the past three years.
Asian shares edged higher on Friday, turning positive
for the year, while the US
dollar weakened broadly after the Federal Reserve's cautious stance on further rate increases prompted investors to rebuild their bets on riskier
assets.
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.
We're talking about Cowtown's other notable Brian Hunter, the oil industry engineer who forced Bay Street to stop ignoring the average folks who collectively and unwittingly dumped hundreds of millions of
dollars into the now frozen market
for asset - backed commercial paper (ABCP).
It's calculated annually by dividing operating expenses by the average
dollar value of the fund's
assets — lowering returns
for investors, which is why it's important to know.
Together, countless everyday folks unwittingly dumped hundreds of millions of investment
dollars into the now - defunct market
for asset - backed commercial paper.
This has significant implications
for the US
dollar and risk
assets.
At close to half a billion
dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid
for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate
assets under one corporate umbrella).
Lower commodity prices, a stronger
dollar, and a rush to US
assets are all good
for the US.
People are seeking safe havens
for their
assets and plowing it into
dollars, raising the currency's value, Rogers said.
Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped to lift
assets priced in the U.S. currency, with gold last week registering a fourth straight weekly gain
for the first time since April.
The UN also created an investor network in 2006 called the Principles
for Responsible Investment (PRI), which now counts more than 1550
asset owners, investment managers, and service providers as members, representing more than 60 trillion
dollars in
assets under management (more than half the global total).
We've already invested the lion's share of our funds» original equity commitments to acquire about $ 1.8 billion of
assets, based on unpaid principal balance,
for less than $ 0.40 on the
dollar.
We also expect SolarCity to immediately account
for 40 % of the
assets of the combined company on a historical cost basis, to contribute $ 1 + billion in revenue in 2017, and to add more than half a billion
dollars in cash to Tesla's balance sheet over the next 3 years.
Benchmark spot gold prices were on course
for an over 1 percent decline this week, pressured by a thaw in tensions on the Korean peninsula and a stronger
dollar as investors looked to riskier
assets such as equities.
Typically these offerings involve the opportunity
for individual investors to exchange currency such as U.S.
dollars or cryptocurrencies in return
for a digital
asset labeled as a coin or token.
For example, consider the set of
assets comprised of the 10 - year U.S. Treasury, U.S. equities, international equities, oil, the VIX, a trade - weighted
dollar index and the BAA credit spread.
By reinvesting dividends, interest income, and capital gains
for an entire working career of 40 + years, it would be a virtual certainty, or as much as such a thing is possible in a non-certain world, that the portfolio owner would retire with millions of
dollars in
assets due to the power of compounding.
It makes no sense
for you to have all of your money here, in
assets denominated in
dollars, if you have a portfolio worth at least $ 100,000 or more.
Such a move by the Trudeau government to draw more revenue into federal coffers would take Canada in the opposite direction as the United States, Mr. Rosenberg said, noting that «the implications
for the Canadian
dollar is decisively negative, not to mention the deflating effect on
asset values.»
Three key headwinds
for EM
assets have abated lately, with a weakening U.S.
dollar, a rebound in commodity prices and a recovering Chinese economy.
But is the capital account buying
dollars for fundamental reasons — that is, because foreign
assets are cheaper that Chinese
assets or foreign growth expectations higher than Chinese growth expectations?
For the past two weeks Canadian funds have been buying U.S.
dollar assets when the Canadian
dollar was weak, said Robert Keiser, analyst with MCM Currency Watch in New York.
Prior to that, he was an analyst
for MDT Advisers (Federated Investors), a multi-billion
dollar asset management firm.
Uber has sold its China
assets to Didi Chuxing
for a 17.7 percent economic interest in the new enterprise, putting a stop to a rivalry that cost both companies billions of
dollars to dominate the country.
With
dollar weakness complicating the investment case
for U.S. fixed income
assets, flows to U.S. Bond Funds were close to neutral going into March as investors pulled back from all the major groups except Emerging Markets Hard Currency Bond Funds...
thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with
dollar - cost averaging,
asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed
for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!
But we believe a moderate rise in the
dollar is more likely, and the support
for profit margins from better wages, spending and nominal growth reinforces our broadly positive view on risk
assets and equities in particular.
The Triffin Dilemma, as this problem is known, points out that if foreign growth is high enough relative to US growth that the need
for US
dollar reserves grows faster than the US economy, the resulting US current account deficit will require that the US sell
assets fast enough, or that US obligations to foreigners grow fast enough, eventually to put the US economy at risk.
Dollar Hegemony: America's ability to export
dollars in exchange
for foreign goods, services and
asset ownership, as if these U.S. Treasury IOUs had an intrinsic value that would end up being worth something to their holders, e.g. as gold or other hard
assets.
As shown in the chart below, signs of economic stabilization in China combined with recovering commodity prices and a weaker U.S.
dollar created short - term tailwinds
for EM
assets.
I would suggest that the bid
for these
assets is either lower than expected or non-existent other than a pennies on the
dollar «option value» bid.
Raymond was responsible
for creating Acadian's market neutral and long - short equity strategies, which grew to several billion
dollars in
assets under management and included global investors from Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Should the Aussie and the Canadian
Dollar pick up some bullish momentum, we could be in
for a more durable rally in equities too, as they have been leading risk
assets in recent weeks.
The decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to move away from its quantitative easing policy — in which the central bank creates billions of
dollars to buy financial
assets each month — comes amid signs the American economy is beginning to heat up, which would boost demand
for Canadian imports.
The market implications: A slower expected pace of Fed tightening is pausing the
dollar's rise, and this bodes well
for risk
assets and emerging markets in particular.
Invested
assets, an important indicator of the size of client funds managed by the bank, dropped
for the first time since June as currency swings from a weaker
dollar left their mark.
Other left - tail risks to our view include geopolitical disruptions, possible U.S.
dollar strength or a complete breakdown in NAFTA negotiations that could dampen near - term sentiment
for emerging markets (EM)
assets.
There is still a possibility this will happen; in a wind - down like this, the board and founders are obligated (sometimes legally, always morally) to sell the
assets to recover even a penny on the
dollar for investors (which in this case would be ~ $ 50,000).
As my colleague, Richard Turnill, notes in a recent blog post, the US
dollar has been steadily weakening because of an improved outlook
for investment activity globally and a reduced need
for precautionary savings to be tucked away in US
dollar safe - haven
assets.
A Fed on hold and weaker
dollar are good news
for the
asset class (see the chart below), and there are signs of progress on structural reforms in certain EM countries.