BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Capital Asset
- real estate that a company owns and uses but that the company does not buy or sell as part of its regular trade
Additional Resources
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence
- The capital asset pricing model CAPM of William Sharpe (1964) and John Lintner (1965) marks the birth of asset pricing theory (resulting in a Nobel Prize for Sharpe in 1990). Before their breakthrough, there were no asset pricing models built from first principles about the nature of tastes and investment...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Global Capital Asset Death Spiral
- William Ellard submits: About a year ago the US market starting seeing large asset write downs in the housing and financial markets. Since then, this crisis has spread to almost every asset class in the US. Auction Rate Securities [ARS], like student loans back fully by the US government that...
- External links 2008-09-09
- Facilities Management: Capital Asset Reinvestment Planning
- This paper focuses on why capital asset reinvestment planning is strategically important to an agency based facility management organization, and the benefit and value it can bring to overall decision support processes surrounding the long-term operation and maintenance of physical assets. Capital asset reinvestment provides the agency with a knowledge...
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Peacock Financial Corp. Aligns Itself With Capital Asset Management to Maximize Growth; New Director Named
- SAN JACINTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 11, 1999--Peacock Financial Corp. (OTC BB:PFCK) today announced that a deal has been struck with Temecula, Calif.-based Capital Asset Management, LLC to join with Peacock in an aggressive acquisition and subsequent spin-off program using the public vehicle of Peacock Financial Corp. Capital Asset Management, LLC...
- Research articles 1999-01-11
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Three Actor Model of Fama and French Revisited in the Case of France
- This study tries to test the three factor model of Fama and French and the Capital Asset Pricing Model on the French Stock Market. It uses returns on the six Fama and French portfolios sorted by size and book to market ratio. The sample is taken from July 1976 to...
- White papers 2002-06-20
- Peacock Financial Corp. is Funded With $460,000 Via Capital Asset Management LLC
- SAN JACINTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 8, 1998--Peacock Financial Corp. (OTC BB: PFCK) confirmed today that it has entered into a firm commitment to fund the Company $460,000 via Capital Asset Management, LLC, a Temecula, California-based investor. The first $100,000 portion is to be received in 3 weeks, with the balance...
- Research articles 1998-10-08
- Capital Asset Pricing Model Integrating both Firm and Market
- This paper proposes a theoretical framework to incorporate a firm's intrinsic value and market-trading value into asset pricing model. It shows that asset return can be decomposed into two components. The first component, called the firm factor, is related to the output of a firm and is proportional to return...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- A Portfolio Selection and Capital Asset Pricing Model
- The aim of this paper is to improve the characterization of a capital market within the CAPM without losing its simplicity and explanatory power. To highlight the peculiarities of the model, the main steps in the development of the standard CAPM are briefly reviewed. The standard CAPM is extended so...
- White papers 2002-02-06
- Trading Volume: Implications of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model
- This paper deals with an intertemporal capital asset pricing model with multiple assets and heterogeneous investors, and explores its implications for the behavior of trading volume and asset returns. Assets contain two types of risks: market risk and the risk of changing market conditions. It shows that investors trade only...
- White papers 2002-11-11
- Capital Asset Management System
- This white paper provides the following objectives which involves a basic understanding of the Capital Asset Management System, an understanding of the CAMS documents and their use, knowledge of why and how to track assets in CAMS and the ability to run CAMS Decision Support queries. It gives an insight...
- White papers 2004-07-26
- The Game-Theoretic Capital Asset Pricing Model
- The paper presents the derivation of a capital asset pricing model from an efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the beliefs or preferences of investors. The efficient market hypothesis says that a speculator with limited means cannot beat a particular index by a substantial factor. The model reveals that...
- White papers 2002-03-03
- Existence of Equilibrium and Zero-Beta Pricing Formula in the Capital Asset Pricing Model With Heterogeneous Beliefs
- The paper studies a mean-variance capital asset pricing model CAPM in which investors have different probability beliefs about assets returns and different attitudes towards risk, all assets are risky, short-selling is allowed and satiation is possible. First, it proves that there exists a competitive equilibrium in the model under a...
- White papers 2003-06-03
- VA Health Care: Framework for Analyzing Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services Decisions.
- GAO-03-1103R August 18, 2003 On May 14, 2003, as requested, we briefed Congress on our preliminary views on the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services CARES process initiated by the Department of Veterans Affairs VA. On July 29, 2003, we shared our additional perspectives, which Congressional Staff indicated...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- "Cost effectiveness tool for capital asset protection".(Responder Resources)(risk assessment software product info)(Brief Article)
- "Cost Effectiveness Tool for Capital Asset Protection," Version 1.0, released by National Institute of Standards and Technology economists, is risk assessment software designed for use by building owners to identify and guard against terrorist threats to their facilities. Download the software at http://www2.bfrl.nist.gov/software/CET/. Contact: Robert...
- Research articles 2005-06-21
- Fitch Issues Presale Report on Pinnacle Capital Asset Trust 2006-A
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has issued a presale report today on Pinnacle Capital Asset Trust 2006-A discussing the rating analysis behind Fitch's expected ratings on the offered notes. The collateral securing the notes consists of pools of prime and nonprime retail auto loans and auto leases originated or acquired...
- Research articles 2006-10-16
- Corporate Profile for Capital Asset Research Corporation Ltd., dated Nov. 27, 1998
- --BUSINESS WIRE--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0- Published Date: Nov. 27, 1998 Company...
- Research articles 1998-11-27
- Fitch Rates Los Angeles County Capital Asset Leasing Corp, California $24.7MM Bonds 'A'
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A' rating to Los Angeles County Capital Asset Leasing Corp., California $24,670,000 lease revenue bonds, 2008 series A (LAC-CAL Equipment Program). The Rating Outlook is Stable. The bonds will be sold competitively on March 4. Also, Fitch affirms its 'A' rating, Stable Outlook...
- Research articles 2008-02-26
- Rethinking CAPM; Sharpe supports less complex simulation as a way to overcome the flaws of mean-variance analysis.(Portfolio Strategies)(Capital Asset Pricing Model )
- Byline: Joel Chernoff William F. Sharpe says his pioneering work on the Capital Asset Pricing Model is ready for a makeover. The 42-year-old model - which earned Mr. Sharpe a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 1990 - is being revamped because...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Fitch Upgrades Pinnacle Capital Asset Trust 2006-A
- NEW YORK -- Fitch upgrades three classes and affirms one class of the Pinnacle Capital Asset Trust 2006-A transaction as part of its on going surveillance process. The rating actions are as follows: --Class A-3 notes affirmed at 'AAA'; --Class B notes upgraded to 'AAA' from 'AA';...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- St. Croix Systems Unveils Safety Manager at HIMSS 2006; A New Module within Its Capital Asset Lifecycle Management Suite
- BOSTON -- St. Croix Systems, the leading provider of capital asset lifecycle management solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the company's participation in the upcoming 2006 Health Information and Management Systems Society HIMSS Conference and Exhibition will include the announcement of Safety Manager, an incident and risk management solution....
- Research articles 2006-02-07
