The way you're
thinking about asset prices is wrong.
The monetary policy people think about output gaps and inflation, and the financial stability people
think about asset prices and leverage and how to strengthen resilience.
When trying to determine the value of any asset, most investors listen very closely to what people
think about the asset in question.
Firstly,
think about asset management.
When I think about REITs,
I think about their asset - liability structure.
The other advantage of
thinking about asset allocation first is that it gives you a road map to selecting funds.
We typically spend a great deal more time
thinking about our assets (i.e. bank balances, investments, real estate) than we do our liabilities.
Thinking about asset allocation, what comes to my mind is the distribution of different asset classes in my portfolio: large - cap, small - cap, mid-cap, bonds, real estate, commodity, international, ect.
I've also spent some time
thinking about our asset allocation.
Now
think about another asset: my house.
Another way to
think about asset allocation is to compare it with a house.
When we think of wills and trusts,
we think about our assets, the family home, and what happens to grandma's jewelry.
Once you learn the minimum coverage your state requires, spend some quiet time
thinking about the assets you are protecting.
When considering coverage types and limits,
think about your assets and the motorbike's value.
Providing concrete examples will encourage your contact to start
thinking about your assets as a potential candidate and will set a positive and promising tone for the remainder of your correspondence.
If not this year, maybe next — like a farmer planning a crop rotation during the winter months, there's never a bad time to
think about your asset allocation and start planning ahead.
Not exact matches
But Katie Koch, global head of client portfolio management and business strategy for fundamental equity at Goldman Sachs
Asset Management, also highlights a paradigm shift in the way investors should
think about picking stocks and
about diversification itself.
Marks arrived at more or less the same definition of liquidity as Hooper, writing that the way to
think about liquidity isn't to ask if there is a market for an
asset, but whether you can quickly sell that an
asset without taking a huge loss on it.
«
Think about how many crypto
assets that are over a billion,
about 26.»
Sanford J. Schlesinger, cochair of the family - owned - business practice of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City, urges owners to
think about what he terms «
asset segregation» to avoid potentially catastrophic personal exposure.
«If you
think about the creation of
asset bubbles, that's always what happens,» Ariely says.
Think about how many
assets you currently have that are under - leveraged because the costs involved in buying, selling, or trading them are too high.
Some pros
think a bear market will bring
about renewed love for active managers because that's where they can prove their worth, by moving
assets around instead of only mimicking a losing index.
Everything you've
thought about in terms of color, font, shape and imagery with regards to your logo and marketing collateral should all play a part in the formation of your most valuable online marketing
asset.
Whether that
asset is Bitcoin or anything else, it's a good idea to
think about what you plan to use the
asset for.
Instead of just following the crowd and the hype, it makes sense to take a step back and
think about your personal reasons for investing in an
asset.
But
think about how hard it is to meet someone who is trustworthy, consistent and a major
asset as a person.
Sam, great input (as always), posts like this keep me out of
thinking about getting residential real estate into my investment portfolio, instead I focus on retail / industrial properties, however I
think I could manage few residential units «on the side», because of lack of diversification I am
thinking about buying a triplex at the moment, and I'm convinced that should be the last move and I would not touch the size of my real estate portfolio afterwards, remaining
assets are going straight to stocks.
Instead, when building your portfolio, first
think carefully
about economic conditions, then make your
asset allocation decision and after that, head to the back of the store.
With Deutsche Bank suggesting that the recent rise in cryptocurrency prices may be directly attributable to instability in those tokens» values, now is a good time for everybody, especially newcomers, to take a step back and
think about what they expect to gain by buying these digital
assets.
And now it's time to begin
thinking about how to generate income from your
assets to fund your retirement.
You can't begin to
think about individual
asset allocation models until you figure out which
asset classes are appropriate for you based on your age, time frame, financial resources, experience, personality, desires, objectives, goals, and risk tolerance.
Second question, on
asset quality, how much more do you
think — I mean, you talked
about potentially improving and NPL ratios getting lower.
It's scary to
think how many more small business owners would be getting their financing if they
thought about their credit as an
asset!
«The main thing an investor should
think about is their time horizon when looking at this
asset class,» responded Fred Hoff, portfolio manager for Fidelity Management and Research Co..
When people
think about estate planning and what will happen to their
assets after they're gone, they often only worry...
Think about the college endowments — the top 800 control $ 400 billion in investable
assets.
2)
Think about the proper
asset allocation in relation to personal risk.
It'd be easy to be pessimistic if, like me, you believed that the Cambridge story marked a shift in how our we
think about this most crucial social
asset.
To give you a better understanding of how rising interest rates negatively affect the principal portion of a dividend yielding
asset just
think about real estate.
If you
think about it, every investment except for hard
assets like real estate or your 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card are just digital numbers on the screen.
I
think people overlook the fact that if you are starting to worry
about drawing down your taxable
assets, you can use the 72 - t rule to withdraw money from your 401k penalty free before you turn 59.5 (yes it does take some planning).
While your instinct may be to just
think about the money in your checking and savings accounts, you might be holding
assets that are easy to turn into cash.
Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that
assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go
about our daily lives without giving a second
thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.
But I
think if we were going to try to simplify this so that it makes a little bit of sense for people I
think one of the main reasons that we can talk
about why this might be happening comes down to central banks around the globe are playing a major role in the buying and selling of financial
assets and an extreme degree.
This removes the need for you to
think about market timing and whether to amend your
asset allocation.
In terms of the positioning
assets for tax efficiency, I know you
think about this as well, any rules of thumb for people?
I mean,
think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your
assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.
Thinking about what to invest in when the economy starts to slide is important if you want to protect your
assets.
When I
think about the fundamental reasons to invest in gold today, I see a stock market that is in bubble territory, serious issues in the bond market, and many other
asset bubbles (bitcoins, artwork, cannabis, real estate in many places, supercars...).