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Asset Management Checklists

Checklists

The Checklists section provides a comprehensive handbook of practical answers to the daily challenges of modern finance. Each checklist is a step-by-step guide to achieving the best results in areas including hedging interest rate risk, governance practices, project appraisal, estimating enterprise value, and managing credit ratings. Each checklist reflects current thinking and best practice, and includes a list of dos and don'ts as well as critical reflection on the topic at hand.

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Airports have become a new kind of discontinuous city, whose vast populations, measured by annual passenger throughputs, are entirely transient, purposeful and, for the most part, happy. An easy camaraderie rules the departure lounges, along with the virtual abolition of nationality—whether we are Scots or Japanese is far less important than where we are going … I suspect that the airport will be the true city of the next century. The great airports are already the suburbs of an invisible world capital, a virtual metropolis whose faubourgs are named Heathrow, Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Nagoya … The concourses are the ramblas and agoras of the future city, time-freeze zones where all the clocks of the world are displayed, an atlas of arrivals and destinations forever updating itself, where briefly we become true world citizens. Air travel may well be the most important civic duty that we discharge today, erasing class and national distinctions and subsuming them within the unitary global culture of the departure lounge.
J. G. Ballard (1930–2010), British novelist
Source: Observer (London) (September 14, 1997)

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