91.   Experience, too, has shown investors that FirstCity management often has provided extremely conservative estimates of what its assets are worth.

92.   Explain how valuable that asset is and the extent to which it is simply a burden.

93.   For older people, their most valuable asset may be their retirement plans, or their investments, or their homes.

94.   For plants that create screens and lend beauty, fast growth is an asset, of course.

95.   Flows of money into mutual funds are important for Schwab because almost half their customer assets are in mutual funds.

96.   Foreign assets are not subject to U.S. forfeiture.

97.   Frail said that only the highest-quality assets are in the special-purpose entities.

98.   For new developments, the speculators circumvent restrictions on reselling flats before they are completed by forming companies whose only asset is the flat itself.

99.   Fund assets are also important.

100.   For the smaller dealers, whose assets are limited, the consequences of such an investigation could be catastrophic.