Sentences with phrase «of conventional assets»

That is, a seven-fold increase within a seven - month period, which is a relatively short time frame considering the growth rate of conventional assets, stocks, and currencies.

«In the last two years, the issue of «stranded assets» has started to loom larger and larger, particularly in relation to the idea that climate change policy could induce the stranding of some conventional assets.

That being said, certain of them — such as coins and precious metals — can rise in price right when the prices of conventional assets happen to be falling.

In summary, evidence suggests that cryptocurrencies comprise a new asset class, potentially (but with considerable risk) useful as a diversifier of conventional asset classes.

Not exact matches

One could say that private equity funds have, at least in their thirst for assets and their run - of - the - mill returns, begun to resemble grubby, conventional mutual funds.

But a staff analytical paper from the Bank of Canada is peeling back the layers of blockchain's proposed advantages and suggests most of its assets actually come from more - conventional technologies such as encryption and smart contracts.

Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev told reporters that, «We categorize mining as a business activity» and went on to explain that because the proposed law contains no specific guidance on mining taxation, conventional tax laws will apply to the proceeds of digital asset mining operations.

This lack of counterparty risk makes precious metals quite different from most conventional assets.

This calls into question the reliability of industry asset allocation and diversification strategies and the prediction capability of conventional portfolio risk modelling techniques.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Therefore, it's worth taking a look at five previous periods of distress to see the returns of conventional and alternative asset classes.

This infographic compares 14 different conventional and alternative asset classes during five times of distress.

At the start of this year, I wrote about Bitcoin and its unrivaled blast - off dynamics compared to conventional assets for the Y2015.

In their November 2017 paper entitled «Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Cryptocurrencies and Other Financial Assets», Shaen Corbet, Andrew Meegan, Charles Larkin, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya apply a battery of tests to analyze relationships: (1) among three cryptocurrencies; and, (2) between the cryptocurrencies and conventional asset classes.

I know much has been said about the conventional strategy of passive investing, which is to pick your asset classes according to correlations, rebalance often, and stick to your allocations, whatever the market does.

When the stock market is near a record high, interest rates are headed much higher and the market fear index, the VIX, suddenly shoots up, this is a clear sign of an overvalued market for conventional intangible assets.

Prarie Provident had focused development of conventional oil weighted assets in the Wheatland and Princess properties in Southern Alberta and its Evi area located in the Peace River Arch area of Northern Alberta.

Sam and Mary reject the idea of conventional investment in assets which produce interest, dividends or capital gains.

The BKTrading mobile trading platform comes with all the features you will find in a conventional BKTrading trading platform and offers an array of assets for traders to trade in.

A: While we will look at the principal's credit, approval will largely be based on the value of the underlying asset, and often in spite of cash flow, financial condition, sales history, or other conventional lending criteria.

From that perspective, a conventional portfolio of passive assets (60 % stocks, 30 % bonds, and 10 % cash) has never been more risky.

Wealthier people in America do not follow the conventional asset allocation model of buying bonds, i.e. age equals your bond percentage allocation or a 60/40 equities / fixed income split.

Long before conventional music lessons start, jam sessions with your toddler (not of the messy sticky preserved fruit variety) can be an enormous developmental asset.

«In addition, detachments of mobile and conventional police as well as the intelligence assets of the Force have been deployed to protect law abiding citizens, reassure the public, prevent the incident from degenerating into a major security threat and aid the Homicide Section being deployed in the location and apprehension of other suspects who are currently at large.

Studies of employee ownership in the U.S., where this idea is a major part of the economy, show that employee owners are one - third as likely to be laid off as employees in conventional firms and the employee ownership companies add about 2.5 % more jobs per year than would have been expected absent employee ownership while providing 2.5 times the total retirement assets.

It's a decent asset on this site as it locations numerous aspects of the critical individual and social effects of «game plans» and how that effect shifts from conventional connections.

I've covered a lot of ground on conventional investing practices such as diversification, asset allocation, indexing and dollar cost averaging.

This has led to some investors exploring risk - factor - based asset allocation as a potential new framework for portfolio construction, and looking at alternative beta strategies in an effort to rectify the «defects» of conventional market portfolios.»

Since I am not a fan of most conventional asset allocation, I am personally surprised by this result, but now let me explain why I reached this conclusion.

For the second week in three investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting a little more than $ 8.0 billion.

Another advantage of investing in alternative investments is owning assets that are not correlated to conventional portfolio investments which can provide additional portfolio diversification.

An alternative asset investment is one that is not normally in a conventional portfolio of stocks, bonds, and cash.

Its portfolio of assets includes conventional oil, oil sands, heavy oil, and natural gas pipelines, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, and midstream storage facilities, and it's a top pick of my Foolish colleague Jason Phillips.

But there are instances in this evolutionary process where that conventional approach must be eschewed in favor of a proactive and tactical strategy that identifies and positions exclusively in positively convex assets with favorable prospective risk - adjusted returns.

For the third week in a row investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), taking in a little more than $ 8.2 billion.

For the first week in four investors were net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $ 291 million.

Our Conventional Commercial Financing Solutions program has been created with a focus to provide long - term financing solutions for a full range of asset classes; ranging from: mixed - use, office / retail, industrial, multi-family and hospitality projects.

This conventional mutual fund recently had half its assets invested in shares of individual CEFs and the rest in a mix of bonds.

Sam and Mary reject the idea of conventional investment in assets which produce interest, dividends or capital gains.

«Alternatives» is an umbrella term for investments that fall outside the three conventional asset classes of stocks, bonds, and cash.

MANY ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS can be slotted into one of two categories: They are either hard - asset plays, like commodities and real estate, or they are financially engineered to perform unlike conventional stocks and bonds, which is what you get with many hedge funds and hedge - fund - like mutual funds.

In addition, ETFs may be subject to the following risks that do not apply to conventional funds: the market price of an ETF's shares may trade above or below their net asset value; an active trading market for an ETF's shares may not develop or be maintained; trading of an ETF's shares may be halted if the listing exchange's officials deem such action appropriate, the shares are delisted from the exchange, or the activation of market - wide circuit breakers halts stock trading generally.

At that point, the poisoned assets migrated to the balance sheets of the commercial banks, depleting their capital, moving the bad debt from the shadow banking system — the vehicles are part of it — to the conventional banking system.

Many conventional mortgages do not allow that, requiring down payment to come from a borrowers» savings or other assets, such as proceeds from the sale of another home.

Down payment: If your assets allow a down payment of 10 % or more, then a conventional loan may be a worthwhile consideration.

All of the asset - liability modeling, where I often tried to challenge existing paradigms, helped me to understand why often the conventional wisdom is true.

The global house price bubble was a consequence of lower interest rates, but it was long term interest rates that galvanized home asset prices, not the overnight rates of central banks, as has become the seeming conventional wisdom.

In addition, this figure does not include the huge cost of new transmission lines; the necessary natural gas fired balancing plants, the loss of revenue from conventional plants due to increased cycling and the cost of stranded conventional assets.

At the same time, current international commitments to reduce carbon emissions and rapid technological change have already led many fund managers to reconsider their investments in these potentially stranded assets, while a growing number of studies show that responsible investment portfolios typically offer returns on a par with or superior to, conventional investment portfolios.

The firm has 35 + years of experience managing energy assets through multiple economic cycles, and a global portfolio that spans conventional and renewable power, and oil and gas infrastructure projects.