For governments, achieving this will likely demand greater flexibility, as well as allowances for
less attractive assets and exploration prospects.
Not exact matches
Gold is highly sensitive to rising U.S. interest rates because it becomes
less attractive compared with interest - bearing
assets.
Several regional grocers fit the traditional profile of an
attractive target, but Shoppers Drug Mart stood out as a uniquely strategic
asset in a
less familiar but complementary space.
«Stocks certainly look more
attractive than bonds,» Subramanian writes,» [but] the case for stocks versus other
asset classes is
less clear.»
«Stocks certainly look more
attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other
asset classes is
less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive on equities.
With the potential for additional volatility and rate rises on the horizon, credit
assets are
less attractive at these levels.
According to the report, officials think the bonds are
less attractive that other
assets.
Chinese officials said in January that the government is considering slowing or halting purchases of US Treasuries as they have become
less attractive relative to other
assets.
Given term premium suppression (via QE) reduced volatility and induced investors to buy risky
assets to boost returns, a sustained rise in long - term interest rates would give investors more options to achieve yield targets, thus making risk
assets appear
less attractive and ultimately erode demands for yield and tighten financial conditions.
While it is difficult to pin down precisely why these outflows have been so persistent, it is clear that current conditions have made holding equity funds considerably
less attractive relative to other
assets.
The declining interest rate makes government bonds and savings accounts
less attractive, encouraging investors and savers toward risk
assets.
A recent survey of 97 sovereign investors — which include sovereign wealth funds, state pension funds, central banks and government ministries collectively holding # 9 trillion of
assets - by Invesco found they see the UK as a
less attractive destination for investment.
Less is more and it's time to bare your most
attractive assets.
Bought at
less than Net Tangible
Assets I would still find it an
attractive consideration.
Part two is that you drive down interest rates so you make safe
assets less attractive so you buy risky
assets, OK.
In my case, I tend to find: i) cheaper and
less glamorous picks & shovels plays, which offer equally
attractive exposure to compelling long - term investment themes, and / or ii) cheap businesses /
assets with a free option attached, which may also offer substantial upside potential.
We may have to invest the proceeds from prepaid investments, including mortgage - and
asset - backed investments, in other investments with
less attractive terms and yields.
The Court, citing the well known case of Brown v. Golaiy for the application of the capital
asset approach, ruled that the Plaintiff, due to her residual symptoms, would be
less marketable and
less attractive as an employee, and would lose the ability to take advantage of all job opportunities that would otherwise have been open to her.
The volatility makes them
attractive to investors who are looking for speculative digital
assets, but quite
less effective as spending currencies.
Further, as a result of this transaction, as well as our previously announced non-core
asset divestiture plan, Cedar will be a more streamlined and
less levered company, with an
attractive wholly - owned portfolio of primarily grocery - anchored shopping centers situated between Washington, D.C. and Boston.»
In this environment, paying a premium for a class - A office building in Manhattan, which most people would consider a safe
asset, would appear more
attractive than putting money into government bonds and earning a return of
less than 2 percent, Cooper says.
Also, if the tax plan puts an end to interest deductibility, lower - yielding core
assets would become
less attractive than higher - yielding development projects, Crowe adds.