Industrial Auctions: Past Their ‘Used By’ Date
In the book ‘Moneyball’ Oakland Athletics General Manager, Billy Beane, follows a contrarian theory of mining for gold out of the least desired, most devalued assets (players) in Major League Baseball. When the market is over paying for speed, buy the assets that generate power. When the market is overpaying for power, buy the undervalued assets for defense… and so on… always trying to stay ahead of the curve. Bill Belichick is widely considered the greatest NFL football coach of all time. Winning year in, year out in a...
read moreThe Power Plant Shutdown Solution
In December 2011 the Obama Administration initiated highly aggressive legislation aimed at closing power plants that did not meet extremely stringent emissions controls. The immediate response was a long list of functional and operational power plants nationwide were almost instantly earmarked for decommission over the next few years. For Asset Impact, this has ‘powered’ a massive surge in our activity as these organizations have actively sought us out to take advantage of both our seasoned and experienced team in handling these...
read moreDivest and Invest to Progress
The signs are coming hard and fast. Ignore them at your own peril. The US will soon be facing another battle to stay out of a prolonged and deeper recession. Today””s Headline on Yahoo: Economists see growing risk of global recession Weak economic data fuel recession fears, contribute to sharp fall in financial markets Statistics analysis is everywhere. In sports, advanced statistical analysis more accurately predict success and failure than ever before. It””s the same with the economy. While there are many more inputs...
read moreThe Recession is Coming, The Recession in Coming – NOW is the Time to Divest/Invest
The recent Yahoo Finance article entitled ‘Second Recession in U.S. Could Be Worse Than First’goes into some pretty deep territory. It does not go so far as to predict this outcome directly but should this scenario occur, it looks at what would be the fallout from a 2nd recession that quickly follows a previous recession. The simple answer? Way more… way, way more of the same… bad stuff. The article states, “…the economy is much weaker than it was at the outset of the last recession in December 2007,...
read morePop Quiz: How Long Will it Take? Go Ahead and Take Your Best Guess.
Pop Quiz: How Long Will it Take? Go Ahead and Take Your Best Guess. This article below brings up some very interesting considerations. It looks at a portion of Australia´s retail woes and talks about asset recovery online retailing, particularly overseas retailing, and how it is presents new challenges. We feel, or to put it more appropriately, we fear those challenges are far worse than the author may even realize. Our hopefully though provoking comments and questions are in bold. Truth be told, even we shudder at the conclusions. The...
read moreBad Management…Competition… Are you really serious?
Bad Management…Competition… Are you really serious? Below are excerpts from a Yahoo Finance article. They point to three (3) reasons for the US economy´s troubled retailers. They are: Heightened competition from larger retailers. More competitors Bad Management????? If bad management means not addressing the threat of internet then we agree, otherwise, management is management and in a competitive marketplace, it will always remain static on a whole… some win, some lose… but when ALL lose, something more than just...
read moreWebmedia and Asset Impact 2011 Scholarship Giveaway
For the 4th year in a row, Webmedia, along with the generous support of Mr. Ambed Prasad, has assisted more than 20 students with Scholarship funds to help with school fees and expenses. Mr. Prasad who tirelessly works through his network of Fiji contacts living both in the US and in Fiji to raise funds for students, along with further donations of both resources and funds from Webmedia, have annually approached school principals to select needy students for scholarship assistance. Students who have been selected are presented with...
read moreLong Range Consulting Yields Much Bigger Asset Recovery
Long Range Consulting Yields Much Bigger Asset Recovery Recently we were engaged by a major national manufacturing and distribution firm considering options for closing down one manufacturing division and consolidating its west coast and east coast distribution centers to one facility. For obvious reasons this company must remain nameless but some of the results were quite fascinating. As with every project, we needed to assess the expected return on asset value. How else can we set a price, right? However, in this particular case, we had much...
read moreIs it the economy or a new way of doing business?
Is it the economy or a new way of doing business? Consider the following article below. It is a recent article from the UK. Great Britain will lose 10,000 retail outlets in 2011!!! Asset Impact maintains that this is NOT a factor of economics. This is far more a factor of the Internet and the way people purchase and the way logistics now function. If Great Britain is losing 10,000 outlets with a population base of 62 million how many retail outlets will close in the USA with 5 times the population base? Asset Impact is here to help companies...
read moreWebmedia and Asset Impact´s Visa Assistance Yields 30 Fiji Students as USA Green Card Winners in 2011
The year 2011 saw more than a 20% increase in the amount of Fiji Form 6 and Form 7 Students assisted through Webmedia and Asset Impacts efforts that won the United States Diversity Visa Program. More than 2400 students received free application support and submission assistance and the results were once again remarkable. There were 32 winners who were then given an opportunity to further studies and earn an income in the United States. After being selected as a winner, the students are then assisted with finding US-based sponsors, with living...
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