Sentences with phrase «financial sector assets»

Chinese companies have recently also developed an appetite for financial sector assets in both Europe and North America, with $ 4.6 billion invested in 2015 alone — which is more than total Chinese investment in financial services in the previous 14 years.

«But it should be looking at using unclaimed pensions and financial sector assets, and at whether forcing a failed pension fund to buy annuities is the best use of scarce resources belonging to fund members.»

Not exact matches

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

The news has also spooked investors who are concerned about how uncertainty in the Spanish and Portuguese financial sectors could impact assets across the eurozone.

Though still a tiny component of the global financial system — Islamic finance accounts for roughly 0.5 % of the world's financial assets, representing some US$ 850 billion — its proponents claim it's the fastest - growing sector of that system.

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.

The central bank noted in its statement that «financial vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher,» which is the Governing Council's way of saying that ultra-low borrowing costs continue to put upward pressure on asset prices and personal debt.

General positivity about Europe's financial sector is not expected to last long, according to two asset managers, who have warned that banks might not be the best investment option over a longer period.

Many central banks, especially during the most acute phases of the crisis, also employed policies known as «credit easing,» which involves purchases of private sector assets in certain credit markets that are important to the functioning of the financial system but are temporarily impaired.

The financial sector constitutes the infrastructure of commerce; financial intermediation is also the mechanism that facilitates risk - sharing and risk mitigation, as well as regional and intertemporal exchange of financial assets and obligations.

China has been trying to get its unruly financial sector under control, worried that asset bubbles and its enormous unofficial — or «shadow» — banking system could threaten its economy, the world's second largest after the United States».

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

National Australia Bank's MLC - home to the country's largest retail superannuation fund and $ 199 billion in assets under management - officially joined the bulging list of financial services sector initial public offering candidates on Thursday morning, when NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn flagged intentions to divest the business.

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

Previously, Fed Vice-Chair Stanley Fischer laid out the framework which the Fed uses to asses financial stability conditions, highlighting four factors: (1) financial sector leverage, (2) non-financial sector borrowing, (3) liquidity and maturity transformation and (4) asset valuation pressures.

The sectoral results for the 2013 survey indicate that Australia's aggregate net foreign currency asset position was held principally by non-bank private financial corporations (other financial corporations), with non-financial corporations and the public sector (including the Future Fund and the Reserve Bank) also holding small net foreign currency asset exposures (Graph 5).

Canadian businesses, especially in the financial services sector, are having to revise deferred tax assets now worth less under a reduced U.S. corporate tax rate

I suspect that many investors sold their risky assets especially in the financial sector and mitigated into these companies.

They are to pay for their rising debt service not by taxing the population, but by selling public assets to the financial, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors — the very sectors which are receiving the growing interest payments on the national debts resulting from lowering taxes on wealth.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

Twain Financial Partners is an investment management firm located in St. Louis, MO with more than $ 4 billion in assets under management within the public - private partnership sector.

«The biggest winners are likely to be Asian and global financial sector firms with intra-Asia regional capabilities and a focus on securities markets, pensions, insurance, asset management, and cross-border banking,» says Anil Agarwal, head of Asian financial research.

Long before James Tobin assigned the letter «Q» to this asset - price ratio, financial analysts were using it as a means to judge how much capacity an economic sector had to take on more loans.

In addition, the Governing Council announced it would purchase asset - backed securities with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector and euro - denominated covered bonds issued by monetary financial institutions (MFIs) domiciled in the euro area.

Nowadays each and every financial business sector, especially the business related to the digital assets aids in the advanced blockchain technologies.

However, banks» asset quality exceeded analysts» expectations, with the financial sector's NPL ratio declining from a peak of 1.63 % in March - April 2009 to 1.29 % at the end of November.

When there is no centralized system to limit financial gains in the real estate sector of the economy, of course the owners of the properties will take whatever they can get for their asset.

Household sector financial assets increased by 1.7 per cent in the March quarter, a somewhat slower rate than in previous quarters, as a reduction in the value of direct equity holdings partially offset strong gains in the value of funds held in superannuation.

Flatt also chairs Brookfield's Investment Committee, whose investment approach is to acquire high - quality assets at less than replacement cost by looking for opportunities in regions and sectors during periods of financial upheaval or operational challenge.

We recommend selling or shorting Citigroup's stock as well as the following financial sector ETFs because they allocate a significant portion of their assets to Citigroup:

As Director of Operations at the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Jason believes blockchain and digital asset technology can have a profound impact financial and other sectors of the world economy for the better.

I actually think something else is going on here — rather than talking about regulating the financial sector, the government and the Bank are signaling that they are willing to provide lender - of - last - resort assurances to those who sell or engage in derivative financial products, of which the asset - back mortgage and commercial debt are but two examples.

This section further breaks down the assets, and shows how much is in certain sectors such as financials, information technology, consumer discretionary, industrials, and healthcare.

Since beginning his career as an equities analyst in Hong Kong in 1986, Richard has served as global head of investment strategy at ABN AMRO Asset Management in London, worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington D.C., and headed equity research departments for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers in Bangkok.

For example, the financial sector can be broken down into industries such as asset management, life insurance, or brokerage.

As discussed above, in the past when credit and asset price booms have ended, they have often resulted in financial and economic instability, with banks suffering losses and the business and household sectors cutting back spending as they repair their balance sheets.

In the wake of a financial crisis associated with over-leverage, monetary policy can, by lowering interest rates, lessen the burden on the indebted sectors by shifting the burden in part to the net holders of interest - earning assets.

Insights on the latest trends and outlook for the financial sector are based on the our recent Bluepaper, «Wholesale Banks & Asset Managers: The World Turned Upside Down» (Mar 16, 2017), a collaborative report between Morgan Stanley Research and Oliver Wyman.

Many STEM - intensive industries such as the financial services sector still have a shocking under - representation of female employees, especially in asset management and senior leadership roles.

Despite the increasing exposure to financial markets, household sector balance sheets remain strong, with their aggregate net financial assets rising by around 14 per cent over the year to the March quarter 1998.

The US banking sector underwent intensive reforms following the global financial crisis, cutting costs, shedding risk and divesting or restructuring underperforming assets.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Beyond the financial sector, we've seen the success of generative design in the fact that workers at firms with employee stock ownership plans in the U.S. enjoy 2.5 times the retirement assets of comparable employees at other firms.

In broad terms, financial asset sales leave the public sector's net worth unchanged».

Because the fund's investments in covered bonds may be secured by a pool of financial assets that include mortgages and public - sector loans, the fund may be indirectly exposed to the risks posed by mortgages and / or public - sector loans.

Under the new administration of Donald Trump the United States stock market should remain a must - own asset class for diversifying beyond the three main sectors of the domestic market: Energy, materials and financials.

The financial sector comprises 36 % of assets, with energy in second place at just over 20 % of assets.

That is because real estate stocks are currently part of the financials sector and not expected to become a separate asset class until mid-2016.

These are all financial buyers of assets, regardless of what sectors they buy in.

Peripheral European assets and the global financials and materials equity sectors would be especially exposed, according to our stress - test analysis.