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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
Spanish term or phrase:activo
Hello,
I am translating a document regarding pension schemes and am struggling with the following:
Política de inversiones y de gestión de Fondos.
El activo de los diferentes patrimonios se invierte de acuerdo a criterios de seguridad, rentabilidad, diversificación y congruencia de plazos adecuados a sus finalidades.
I'm not sure how to translate 'El activo de los diferentes patrimonios' because 'activo' and 'patrimonio' are both 'assets'??
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es·tate /ɪˈsteɪt/ [ih-steyt]
noun, verb, -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
–noun
2. Law .
a. property or possessions.
b. the legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to property owned in land or other things.
c. the degree or quantity of interest that a person has in land with respect to the nature of the right, its duration, or its relation to the rights of others.
d. interest, ownership, or property in land or other things.
e. the property of a deceased person, a bankrupt, etc., viewed as an aggregate.
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I wonder if the question you should be asking is what "patrimonios" means. We all know that activos is assets, but I can think of two possibilities for "patrimonios".
One is that it's a tautology, and " el activo de los diferentes patrimonios" simply means "assets". The other possibility is that "patrimonios" means "funds", meaning that the pensions are invested in more than one fund - and it does talk about "fondos" in the previous sentence.
However, I don't feel that either of the answerers so far has really clarified the meaning of the whole sentence, and I don't think "estate" makes sense in this context.
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asset
Explanation: Patrimonio is in the context should be translated "estate".Like:
"The asset(s) of the diferent estates..."
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"An estate is the net worth of a person at any point in time. It is the sum of a person's assets - legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind - less all liabilities at that time. The issue is of special legal significance on a question of bankruptcy and death of the person. (See inheritance.)"
"Se considera patrimonio el conjunto de los bienes y derechos pertenecientes a una persona, física o jurídica. Históricamente la idea de patrimonio estaba ligada a la de Herencia. Así, por ejemplo, la RAE da como primera acepción del termino «Hacienda que alguien ha heredado de sus ascendientes».
"La palabra es también utilizada para referirse a la propiedad de un individuo, independientemente como sea que la haya adquirido.[1] Desde este punto de vista, el individuo puede ser ya sea una persona natural o jurídica. Así se habla de Patrimonio empresarial: El conjunto de bienes, derechos y obligaciones, pertenecientes a una empresa -como persona jurídica- y que constituyen los medios económicos y financieros a través de los cuales ésta puede cumplir sus objetivos."
Activo
"El activo comprende todos los bienes y derechos de un mismo propietario. Es la pertenencia al mismo sujeto de una serie de derechos. Bajo esta denominación se engloban los bienes y los derechos (tanto reales como de crédito)."
Jorge & Julie Soares Local time: 08:44 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English, Portuguese PRO pts in category: 6
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es·tate /ɪˈsteɪt/ [ih-steyt]
noun, verb, -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
–noun
2. Law .
a. property or possessions.
b. the legal position or status of an owner, considered with respect to property owned in land or other things.
c. the degree or quantity of interest that a person has in land with respect to the nature of the right, its duration, or its relation to the rights of others.
d. interest, ownership, or property in land or other things.
e. the property of a deceased person, a bankrupt, etc., viewed as an aggregate.
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Sorry for the double-wiki!
Example sentence(s):
the assets of the different estates
Steven Huddleston United States Local time: 03:44 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English, Spanish PRO pts in category: 18 1 corroborated select project in this pair and field
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