Article Archive — Asset / Equipment Management
Asset Managers Sum Up 2011, Forecast for 2012
Changing Winds...
The asset managers assembled for this year's Monitor roundtable saw in 2011 a stuttering economic recovery as they led their respective institution's equipment management activities. During the slow and bumpy ride, they experienced a rise in equipment values, favorable end-of-term residual realization, increased used equipment sales, strong competition for desirable deals and a proliferation of government regulations. And, at the dawn of 2012, these leaders forecast more of the same mindful that certain factors could bring about the winds of change at any given moment.
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For Asset Managers, 2011 Brings Both Challenges and Excitement
Clearing the Chasm
With the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s Annual Equipment Management Conference happening in the not-so-distant future, the Monitor assembled a panel of five of the industry’s leading asset managers to gain their insight about topics ranging from sound industry practices to rebounding sectors. Here’s what they had to say…
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Machinery & Equipment Values
Setting the Standard for Industrial Auctions — Déjà Vu All Over Again
Many of the major valuation and appraisal firms in the U.S. have their origins in the auction business of industrial assets and/or retail going-out-of-business liquidations. The advent of the Internet, advances in fiber optics and telecommunications, computer technology and a growing global economy have fueled innovation in the way industrial assets are marketed and sold today.
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Equipment Managers Prove Their Worth as Economy Makes Slight Advances at Recovery
Poised to Defend the Bottom Line
February marks the first official gathering of asset managers since the end of the recession, when the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association convenes its 2010 Equipment Management Conference in Tucson, AZ. In anticipation, the Monitor reached out to five of the industry’s leading asset managers — including the chairperson of this year’s conference planning committee — to see what the past two years have been like, what people will be talking about and what’s in store for 2010.
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Amid Struggling Economy, Equipment Managers Take the Lead
Once again asset managers are finding themselves on the front lines as leasing and finance companies struggle to maintain market share in a stagnant economy. In 2007, with the first signs of credit market instability, some 70% of finance company senior managers polled by the ELFA said they expected equipment managers to become increasingly important to their businesses. The Monitor spoke with five equipment managers to gain their perspectives on these times of unprecedented uncertainty.
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Amid Economic Turbulence, Asset Managers Keep an Even Keel
For all the upheaval in the wider economy, leasing analysts say not much has changed in the equipment finance sector. For asset managers, that means another year of intense competition, margin compression and increased residual assumptions as they do whatever it takes to “even the keel.”
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Enhancing Equipment Value
The Case for Appraisals Performed By Liquidators
On the surface, M&E appraisals may look to be pretty much the same. However, it is what the appraiser “brings to the table” that enhances his value to the lender and elevates his product above that of his competitors. What’s important is going
the distance and providing a comprehensive examination of the net value of the collateral.
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In a Dynamic Environment, Equipment Managers Remember to Roll With the Changes
Last year, the equipment managers we spoke to classified 2005 as a year of increasing competition, with more and more money chasing fewer and fewer deals. Most of our respondents said they expected that trend to continue into 2006; and by all indications it has done just that.
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