According to research from the consulting firm Ocean Tomo, physical assets like property, equipment and factories accounted for more than 80pc of the market value of the US’s largest companies in 1975. Today, however, more than 80pc of market value is made up of intangible assets such as networks and intellectual property.
Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, January 16th, 2017
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