For its part, ISS has indicated upwards of 60
per cent of the assets it represents have their own voting guidelines.
With funds managers holding about 15 - 20
per cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition of household assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.
He adds that many real estate agents are also focused on a Chinese pilot program that's being tested in five cities, including Shanghai, that allows wealthy individuals to invest at least 50
per cent of their assets in foreign markets.
It is the largest provider of custody in Canada, with just over 40
per cent of assets under administration, and a leader in correspondent banking services.
Approximately 42
per cent of all assets in stock funds are now in passive funds that track indexes, up from 24 per cent in 2010, according to the Investment Company Institute.
At the end of the 2017 fiscal year (March 31), 21.5
per cent of the assets were invested in fixed income securities with another 23.1 per cent in real assets (real estate, infrastructure, etc..)
While these holdings have tended to fall relative to banks» total assets, as regulatory requirements have been eased, banks still hold between 5 and 6
per cent of assets in highly liquid forms.
They think the new republic should be entitled to 31
per cent of the assets of the UK, on the grounds that Scotland makes up 31 per cent of the present UK's landmass.
«If you have gold coins, you get food, you can barter,» said Monty Guild, a respected money manager who personally has 10
per cent of his assets tied up in gold coins.
These main 11 ETFs command more than 75
per cent of assets in the category, which included more that 50 ETFs in total.
The industry is moderately concentrated, with the top 10 companies accounting for 77
per cent of all assets.
At WealthSimple, clients whose accounts are between $ 5,000 and $ 250,000 pay 0.5 per cent, while WealthBar charges 0.6
per cent of assets under management for accounts between $ 5,000 and $ 150,000.
InvestorLine's adviceDirect service costs a rather stiff 1
per cent of assets in an account, but it represents some novel thinking in how to set up clients to invest effectively and, of course, generate revenue for the firm.
Instead of paying the Canadian average of 2.2 per cent in mutual fund Management Expense Ratios (MERs), a typical robo service charges just 0.5
per cent of assets under management (annually), plus the MERs of the underlying ETFs, which can range from 8 basis points to about 55 basis points, depending on products selected.
The case for hiring a professional portfolio manager at about 1
per cent of assets under management is compelling — the couple is barely pacing inflation before taxes on the trifling interest their $ 600,000 in GICs earns.
CPPIB, which manages investments for the Canadian Pension Plan, chalked up some of the gains to the scorching pace of international stock markets last year (as of the end of the quarter, 30.5
per cent of its assets were foreign public equity, totalling $ 102.7 billion).
Aditya Birla Sun Life Tax Relief 96 Fund seeks long - term capital growth and will invest approximately 80
per cent of its assets in equity, while...
Emerging Global Advisors (EGA), the investment advisor to the EGShares exchange - traded funds, is to close four funds representing less than one
per cent of assets under management.»
The fund management fee for non-government funds has been raised from 0.0009
per cent of assets under management to 0.25 per cent.
The report also observed that the expectation of generating a return of at least 8 per cent per annum is a «tall order» given that at least 50
per cent of assets of the insurer are mandatorily to be backed by government securities (G - Secs), which currently yield about 6.7 per cent - 7.2 per cent annually.
v3.co.uk - Youbit lost almost 20
per cent of its assets A Korean cryptocurrency exchange has been forced to shut down, after it was hacked for the second time in less than eight months.
The Youbit exchange shut down and collapsed into bankruptcy after hackers stole 17
per cent of its assets.
«In the U.S., 65
per cent of all assets sold are purchased by out of market investors.
Not exact matches
However, Loblaw only has 5
per cent of the pharmacy market, making Shoppers an attractive
asset.
Aside borrowers, investors benefit from regular monthly returns at an average rate
of 15.5
per cent, which is significantly higher than other
asset classes.
The company said Friday it earned net income
of $ 15 million or six
cents per share in the last three months
of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43
per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by
asset sales.
Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25
per cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition
of the Chilagoe base metal
assets from the liquidators
of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.
Real estate
assets in Canada accounted for 40
per cent of total wealth in 2012, he pointed out, as opposed to only 32
per cent in 1999.
Nedlands - based TFS Corporation has achieved a record full - year profit
of $ 82.5 million, up 48
per cent on the back
of increased plantation
asset ownership.
In a statement the company said the two acquisitions delivered the company significant expenditure savings, estimating that the
assets were acquired at approximately 8
per cent of the replacement cost.
Successful diversified Perth - based miner Straits Resources Ltd is planning to spin - off 40
per cent of its major
asset into a new, initially energy - based clone in Singapore later this year.
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.
With the existing $ 5,500 -
per - year contribution limit, all but the top few
per cent of families will soon be able to shelter all
of their
assets from taxation.
The loss was largely due to a $ 916 million impairment charge on its long - lived
assets, stemming both from a major tax and export dispute between its 64 -
per -
cent owned Acacia Mining and the Tanzanian government, and the partial writedown
of its Pascua Lama project after the Chilean government ordered it to close all surface facilities.
The 8.3
per cent decrease stemmed largely from the sale
of Transcontinental's media
assets.
Excluding restructuring costs,
asset impairments and the impact
of U.S. tax reform, adjusted earnings were $ 48.6 million or 63
cents per share.
The value
of CMHC's
assets dropped to $ 252 billion in 2015, down 14
per cent from 2012.
The ACCA allows manufacturing companies to depreciate, for tax purposes, the value
of newly purchased equipment and machinery at the accelerated rate
of 50
per cent per year, reducing their taxable income in the first few years
of owning the
asset.
In 2005 according to my calculations with the Survey
of Household Spending, a $ 100,000
per family TFSA would have shielded about 46
per cent of taxable
assets from taxation, assuming taxable
assets were not left outside the TFSA when TFSA room was available.
Excluding
asset impairment and restructuring costs, Coke earned 50
cents per share, up 2 percent from a year earlier and ahead
of analysts» estimates
of 49
cents a share.
Highly geared and ASX - listed Yancoal paid $ US2.69 billion ($ 3.6 billion) for the
assets last year, but swiftly struck a deal to on - sell 49
per cent of the HVO mine to Glencore, which had long carried a torch for the Rio Tinto
assets.
(Australia ended policy similar to supply management in 2000; a tax
of 11
cents per litre was applied to milk and producers were then paid out for the extra but artificial value
of their supply - managed
assets.)
P&G will take a noncash charge
of 28
cents per share to write down goodwill and intangible
assets, and adjust fiscal 2014 results to reflect Duracell as a discontinued operation.
Overall, the government sector is reported to have hedged about 70
per cent of its foreign currency
asset exposure using derivatives.
As at the end
of March 2013, international investment position (IIP) data indicated that Australian entities overall had a net foreign currency
asset position equivalent to 27
per cent of GDP before taking into account the use
of derivatives for hedging purposes (ABS 2013a).
Since the early 1980s, the proportion
of household financial
assets held as deposits has fallen from about 50
per cent to below 30
per cent; this has been mirrored by a comparable rise in the proportion
of household
assets held as claims on life insurance and superannuation funds (Graph 11).
This net position in turn consisted
of foreign currency
asset holdings equivalent to about 20
per cent of GDP, with more than three - quarters
of this in the form
of equity investment (including direct investment by multinational companies in their offshore operations).
The sector held foreign currency
assets equivalent to about 4
per cent of GDP, with the majority
of these likely to reflect investments by the Australian Government's Future Fund.
(a) Share
of total Australian dollar
assets (
per cent), subcomponents are the share
of liquid
assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store
of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock
of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will, in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes notes and coins, Australian dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised
assets (excluding self - securitised
assets)
The general government sector — which consists
of national, state and local governments — had a net foreign currency
asset position equivalent to around 3
per cent of GDP as at the end
of March 2013, before taking into account the use
of derivatives for hedging purposes (Table 2).