Seventy-three percent said they did not plan to shift assets out of mutual funds in the near future.
But 75 percent said they would shift assets out of a mutual fund that admits wrongdoing.
As baby boomers retire, they are likely to shift assets into bonds.
The people who earned the really high returns recognized that a new economy was under way and shifted assets into that area.
People who anticipate that their parents may eventually enter a nursing home may not want to shift assets at all.
In these cases, it makes sense to shift assets to your children to take advantage of their lower tax rate.
The partnerships that Enron created in the late 1990's, which also shifted assets off its books, posed the same challenge.
And it makes it almost impossible for Argentines to shift assets into other currencies.
This is simply a way of making it easier to shift assets to large companies.
Alexander frequently shifted assets to his wife's name, yet such transfers are not legal under federal ethics and security laws.