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- Why Do Households Concentrate Their Wealth in Housing?
- An apparent paradox in U.S. household wealth accumulation is the relatively small holding of financial assets and the large holding of housing wealth. To explain the high concentration of household wealth in housing, this paper estimates the marginal propensity to consume) from housing and from financial assets. A higher marginal...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Determining The Fair Value Of Financial Instruments Under IFRS In Current Market Condition
- The objective of this paper is to enhance awareness of the requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS in relation to the determination of fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities and related disclosures in the context of current market conditions. This paper highlights those aspects of existing IFRS...
- White papers 2007-12-13
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- Social Security as a Financial Asset: Gender-Specific Risks and Returns
- Social Security is a financial asset whose 'purchase' is compulsory for most working individuals; the return during the individual's working lifetime is related to the rate of change of aggregate labor income. If an individual's labor income is strongly related to aggregate labor income, then the Social Security asset is...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Meeting Today's Industry Challenges With SAP Financial Asset Management
- The SAP Financial Asset Management application is an essential part of the SAP for Insurance solution portfolio. The application helps insurance companies manage and control a broad range of financial investments - including equity and fixed-income securities, money market instruments, loans, foreign exchange instruments, and derivatives - from the initial...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Fitch Upgrades Caterpillar Financial Asset Trust 2002-A
- CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings upgrades the following class of notes for Caterpillar Financial Asset Trust 2002-A (CAT 2002-A).
- Research articles 2004-12-03
- CathayOnline Merges With Lazzara Financial Asset Recovery, Inc
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 19, 2000 CathayOnline Inc., (OTCBB:CAOL)(www.cathayonline.com) announced today that the Company is now a reporting issuer under the Securities Act of 1934, and is in compliance with eligibility rules governing the NASD OTC Bulletin Board. Pursuant to a merger with Lazzara Financial Asset...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Fitch Affirms 4, Downgrades 1 from Financial Asset Securitization, Inc. Series 1997-NAMC2
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the following Financial Asset Securitization, Inc., residential mortgage-backed security RMBS securitization: Series 1997-NAMC2 --Class A affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B1 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B2 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B3 affirmed at 'A'; --Class...
- Research articles 2005-04-07
- Fitch Takes Various Rating Actions on 2 Financial Asset Securitization Inc. Deals
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed eight, downgraded one, and placed two classes on Rating Watch Negative from the following two Financial Asset Securitization Inc. FASI transactions: Series 1997-NAMC1 --Class A affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B-1 affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B-2 affirmed at 'AAA'; ...
- Research articles 2007-11-09
- Fitch Rates Bayview Financial's $445.4M A-B Securities Series 2003-B
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 6, 2003 Bayview Financial Asset Trust 2003-B $321.5 million class IO asset-backed certificates and class A and Class A-IO asset-backed notes are rated 'AAA' by Fitch Ratings. In addition,. Fitch rates the $50.2 million class M-1 asset-backed notes 'AA', $16.7 million class M-2...
- Research articles 2003-03-06
- Are Financial Assets Priced Locally Or Globally?
- This article reviews the international finance literature to assess the extent to which international factors affect financial asset demands and prices. International asset pricing models with mean-variance investors predict that an asset's risk premium depends on its covariance with the world market portfolio and, possibly, with exchange rate changes. The...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Financial Asset Returns, Direction-of-Change Forecasting, and Volatility Dynamics
- The paper considers three sets of phenomena that feature prominently and separately in the financial economics literature: conditional mean dependence or lack thereof in asset returns, dependence and hence forecastability in asset return signs and dependence and hence forecastability in asset return volatilities. It shows that they are very much...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Financial Asset Returns, Market Timing, and Volatility Dynamics
- This article considers three sets of phenomena that feature prominently and separately in the financial economics literature: conditional mean dependence or lack thereof in asset returns, dependence and hence forecastability in asset return signs with implications for market timing, and dependence and hence forecastability in asset return volatilities. It shows...
- White papers 2002-01-02
- Is A Pledged Asset Mortgage Right For You?
- A pledged asset mortgage allows homebuyers to pledge financial assets to a mortgage lender instead of making a down payment. Depending upon the lender, you can pledge almost any type of financial asset, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds and Certificates of Deposit CDs, while maintaining ownership. With a pledged asset...
- White papers 2005-02-17
- Fitch Ratings Affirms Bayview Financial Asset-Backed Transactions
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 21, 2003 Fitch Ratings has performed a review of Bayview Financial Trading Group's Asset Backed transactions. Based on the review, the following ratings have been affirmed: Bayview Financial Acquisition Trust 1998-B --Class A at 'AAA'; --Class M-1 at 'AA'; ...
- Research articles 2003-02-21
- The Time-Varying Nature of the Link between REIT, Real Estate and Financial Asset Returns
- This study examines the sensitivity of equity real estate investment trust REIT returns to returns on other asset classes, including real estate, using an estimation method that explicitly allows for variation over time in the sensitivities. The results show that the relationship between REIT returns and returns to bonds, small...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Did Home Refinancing Boom Trigger the Financial Crisis?
- The residential housing market can burn down even when bankers restrain their lending, financial regulators dutifully police their beats and government officials tweak the right monetary dials. That's the conclusion of an interesting new study by economists including Nobel laureate Robert Merton of Harvard and Andrew Lo...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Asset sales stumble over recourse.
- A loan held in portfolio clearly must be supported by capital. A loan wholly sold off with no possible recourse almost as clearly need not be supported by capital. Between these two extremes is a big gray area that has federal, regulators concerned. The...
- Research articles 1990-04-01
- Global News: Financial Assets Of The Wealthy Grow Markedly.(overall wealth)(Brief Article)
- The financial wealth of the world's high net worth individuals HNWIs has continued to grow significantly, expanding by 8.2% in 2004 to reach $30,800bn, according to the '2005 World Wealth Report' by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. The report reflects that a record 8.3 million...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- European giants in flurry of merger activity. (insurance companies, other financial services companies)
- With the official establishment of the European Community's economic and monetary unification set for Jan. 1, 1999, the scrambling for market position continued to heat up last week, as a number of giant financial service companies moved to strengthen their positions. Two of the deals involved...
- Research articles 1997-10-20
- Our Next Financial Showdown: Commercial Real Estate
- Updated August 19, 2009 The U.S. economy is not out of the woods, but important indicators are at least signaling the end of the freefall in the housing market. Our next worry may be commercial real estate, which has been going through the same cycle of falling...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
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