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A company that doesn’t have much in the way of shareholders’ equity, which means if it enters into significant financial contracts, it is liable to blow up, unless it carefully documents them. | A company that doesn’t have much in the way of shareholders’ equity, which means if it enters into significant financial contracts, it is liable to blow up, unless it carefully documents them. | ||
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[[Asset manager]]s also tend to be (comparatively) thinly capitalised (but nothing like as thinly as {{tag|SPV}}s do, as they generally act for the account of the [[fund]]s that they manage, and aren't subject to any regulatory requirements to hold capital. | [[Asset manager]]s also tend to be (comparatively) thinly capitalised (but nothing like as thinly as {{tag|SPV}}s do, as they generally act for the account of the [[fund]]s that they manage, and aren't subject to any regulatory requirements to hold capital. | ||
[[Bank]]s, by contrast, are [[fat capitalisation|fatly capitalised]]. Well, they would be, if there were such a term in common usage. | [[Bank]]s, by contrast, are [[fat capitalisation|fatly capitalised]]. Well, they would be, if there were such a term in common usage, at least as long as regulators remember not to go soft (periodically, they forget) and weaken capitalisation regulations. | ||
{{Seealso}} | {{Seealso}} | ||