Then the author takes us on a trip through history, starting with Ben Graham buying the shares of companies at prices lower than the net
liquid assets of the company, net of the debt.
Not exact matches
However, Lake took pains to remind analysts that the operative word when it came to the «deemed repatriation
of foreign earnings» - a measure in the reforms that sees
liquid assets held overseas by US
companies subject to a one - off charge
of 15.5 % - was «deemed».
The new US tax code requires
companies to pay tax
of 15.5 % on accumulated overseas profits held in cash and other
liquid assets, regardless
of whether or not the
company repatriates the money.
You can buy shares
of stock in thousands
of companies across the world, and this stock can be sold quickly and easily for cash, making it a very
liquid asset.
The bill would take currently untaxed profits
of US
companies being stored abroad — profits that would normally be taxed at a 35 percent rate upon being brought back to the US — and tax them at new ultra-low rates: 8 percent for profits invested in real estate and other hard
assets abroad, and 15.5 percent for profits in cash and stock and other
liquid assets.
Where an SWF is primarily a fund manager investing
liquid financial
assets of the state (e.g. Singapore's GIC), an NWF is akin to an investment
company in charge
of active corporate governance for the commercial, operational
assets of the state such as state - owned enterprises, real estate, forests, infrastructure as a portfolio (e.g. Singapore's Temasek).
After all, the
company has little in the way
of liquid assets at present.
WHen managing that
company's portfolio I didn't have to worry about a run on the portfolio, because I kept more than enough
liquid assets to satisfy the demands
of policyholders should they decide to surrender.
Most financial
company failures are due to illiquidity, which usually takes the form
of too many illiquid
assets and
liquid liabilities.
In such an environment, crowing about top quartile performance, or telling stories about «impact
companies» can fall on deaf ears, particularly with the
liquid asset constituents
of the portfolio still resent that their portfolios were used as ATMs for increasingly frequent PE capital calls between 2004 and 2008.
For those that haven't read me much, the deadly trio
of too much leverage, illiquid
assets, and
liquid liabilities is what causes most corporate defaults
of financial
companies, not lesser issues like mark - to - market accounting.
And results this week seem to suggest the
company's
liquid / realizable
assets will soon be re-deployed into other Russian natural resource investments, so any prospect
of shareholders receiving cold hard cash here appears increasingly remote.
The difficulty that most
of the complaining
companies had was a mix
of liquid liabilities requiring prompt payment, and relatively illiquid
assets that would be difficult to sell.
Icahn Enterprises (which currently has, on a consolidated basis, $ 22.4 billion
of assets, including in excess
of $ 13 billion in
liquid assets, which are cash and marketable securities) made a legitimate offer to acquire your
Company, and to be clear, we continue to be immediately ready to meet with you to document the transaction.
When a buyer purchases a
company in the private market, he has to pay for the
company equity (including common stock, preferred shares, minority interest, etc), he has to pay off all the debt, but in return the buyer gets the cash the
company has in its bank accounts and other cash equivalents in form
of securities and other
liquid assets.
Such market permit other financial institutions with liquidity needs to borrow in a short period
of time from other
companies with excesses, that adapts those banks to elude keeping far too large sums
of their means, which are based on
liquid assets such as cash to control any implicit expenses from the clients.
Based upon publicly available information, Icahn Enterprises (which currently has, on a consolidated basis, $ 22.4 billion
of assets, including in excess
of $ 13 billion in
liquid assets, which are cash and marketable securities) hereby proposes to purchase the
Company in a merger transaction at $ 15 per share without any financing or due diligence conditions.
Icahn Enterprises (which currently has, on a consolidated basis, $ 22.4 billion
of assets, including in excess
of $ 13 billion in
liquid assets, which are cash and marketable securities) hereby proposes to purchase the
Company in a merger transaction at $ 15 per share without any financing or due diligence conditions.
Among
companies in the UK, US and Europe, there has been a significant increase in their
liquid asset holdings,
of around $ 0.5 trillion since 2008, mostly for precautionary purposes.
Nintendo is still a financially viable
company, sitting on billions
of dollars in
liquid assets, but its shareholders are nervous.
The capital needed for a global shift to low - carbon energy systems can be mobilized from highly
liquid but risk - averse institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance
companies, and sovereign wealth funds, which have
assets of more than $ 80 trillion.
Representation
of a North American natural gas pipeline, storage and power
company in connection with its acquisition, commercial contracts, and subsequent sale
of a U.S. midstream
company and natural gas
liquids marketing
assets, including five gas processing plants, two
liquids pipelines and a salt dome storage facility.
The insurance
company has to collect the premiums from many and make sure they save enough
of that money in
liquid assets to be able to pay the claims
of the few.
Even though there are laws governing the amount
of money a life insurance
company must keep in reserve (in
liquid cash
assets) small insurance
companies do fail from time to time.
And the
liquid death benefit is available from the life insurance
company quickly, so that your trustee
of your estate and beneficiaries promptly have the
liquid assets needed, rather than have to sell off other
assets to create needed liquidity.
Elsewhere, the industry average for
liquid assets in 25
of the biggest insurance
companies is $ 48.55 for every $ 100
of liabilities.
The
company has $ 4.9 billion in
liquid assets and has an annual premium base
of $ 1.8 billion.
In support
of such strategy, Rummell adds, «Despite an active year
of acquisitions, St. Joe remains a
company with
liquid assets of approximately $ 500 million — and absolutely zero debt — so we have all the muscle we need to bring our plans to reality.»