What Africa is providing is a diversification play, and also opportunities for yield pickup for the investor that's aware of what he or she is doing.

Large investors diversify their asset portfolio in order to optimize their risk return ratio.

The challenge of long term investment cannot be resolved without attracting more diverse and private sources of finance. In 2013, institutional investors in OECD countries alone held more than 57 trillion in assets, and pension funds collected around 1 trillion in new contributions.

(d) In view of the size and diversification of the investment portfolio, the Investment Management Service should increase the number of investment managers or review the possibility of hiring additional discretionary investment advisers (AS2001 95 1 14)

The working group welcomed the initiatives taken by the Investment Management Service with a view to controlling risks, and diversifying and modernizing its operations.

(c) Diversify the portfolio in respect of asset type, currency and geography

The portfolio mix will remain diverse, comprising complex, full service operations management portfolios and portfolios involving the provision of individual service support processes and inputs.

That partnership raised the rate of return on development investments, making more resources available at lower cost and promoting global integration.

(b) An allocation to high yield bonds will provide further diversification benefits to the portfolio, more than compensating for the risk of this asset category

Within the framework of this theme, the focus of the United Nations Pavilion will be Celebrating Diversity , drawing on both cultural diversity and natural diversity, and their interdependence.

(b) The split between domestic and overseas investments and the regional allocation within the overseas portfolio and the associated currency decisions

Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.

The estimated requirement for training ( 268,800) represents an increase of 64,600, reflecting an increase in staff and the need for the staff of the Investment Management Service to stay current in an ever changing investment environment.

In the area of investment promotion, UNIDO and UNCTAD were the joint hosts for an international conference on privatization and investment held in Geneva in which 200 businessmen participated along with Uzbek government officials.

Portfolio risk analysis and performance attribution system ( 875,000)

Total 151.59 49. These funds were invested in short term time deposits ( 97.5 million) bonds and notes ( 53.7 million), which are longer term investments and call accounts ( 0.4 million) for immediate access.

Thus, the eurozone faces three choices even more austerity for the heavily indebted countries, socialization of the debt across Europe, or a creative re profiling of debt, with investors forced to accept losses sooner or later.

NEW YORK Even in normal times, individual and institutional investors alike have a hard time figuring out where to invest and in what. Should one invest more in advanced or emerging economies?

It was important to seek programmes and projects which promoted diversification of exports and investment in natural resources and infrastructure in order to increase investment possibilities.

For example, cutting a ton of CO2 with on shore wind turbines in Germany probably costs about 35, avoiding about 14 cents of climate damage per dollar. But offshore wind turbines cost about 150 per ton of CO2, avoiding just three cents of climate damage per dollar.

Portfolio management

(b) In order to establish accountability, the Investment Management Service should either (i) ensure that the fixed income investment officer acts with greater independence in the management of the portfolio or (ii) consider outsourcing the fixed income portfolio while maintaining the investment officer to monitor the performance of the outsourced portfolio (AS2003 801 02 011)

Discussions had been held on issues such as a possible multilateral framework on investment and its development dimension, export processing zones, targeting investors, locational decisions of investors, outward investment promotion measures and investment incentives.

(iii) Capital investment upgrading the United Nations Headquarters campus network infrastructure with robust capabilities to support large and multiple user groups with diverse requirements for mission critical data, voice and video traffic

Simultaneously, through the diversification of supply sources, massive investments in liquified natural gas (LNG), and a strong push in favor of the Nabucco pipeline and inter connectors between the Mediterranean rim countries, Europe can move closer toward energy security.

A provision of 10,191,900 is made for contractual services for portfolio management.

The sources of the invested funds were as follows (in millions of United States dollars)

Inputs (resource estimates in euros)

Since the pilot phase, GEF funding, together with an additional US 2.6 billion leveraged from multilateral, bilateral and other sources of financing, amounted to total project financing of over US 3 billion in the climate change area.

The following panellists made presentations Abhimanyu Singh, Lead Manager, Dakar Follow up Unit, Education Sector, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Jean Majeres, Chief, Employment Intensive Investment Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO) and Eduardo Doryan, Special Representative to the United Nations, World Bank.

Bilateral investment treaties and their relevance to a possible

A series of recent investment projects emanating from China are noteworthy, for example 20 billion projects in Argentina in railways, oil and gas exploration, construction and communication satellites 5 billion worth of investment projects in Brazil ranging from a new railway to infrastructure for two ports and a 600 million nickel plant in Cuba.

The proposed investment plan for 2005 2007, which is currently under preparation, will provide for a growth of the total UNCDF investment portfolio from 125 million in 2005 to more than 200 million in 2007 and an increase in total LDC coverage from 28 LDCs in 2005 to 35 in 2007.

At the end of the biennium, 9,923 million, or 49.2 per cent of the Fund apos s investments, were in currencies other than the United States dollar.

The immediate cause of Chile s slowdown is the decline in investment, particularly in mining but the underlying problem is that the failure to diversify the economy sufficiently makes it far from clear what new kinds of investment, and which new exports, will take up the slack.

Flows to South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Pacific were 19 billion, 6 billion, 6 billion and 0.2 billion, respectively.

Another possibility is the development of foreign investment funds investing in a diversified portfolio of domestic currency denominated debt of developing countries, which provide, through diversification, risk adjusted rates of return that are attractive to foreign investors.

Invest in cultural industries to generate new and indigenous forms of employment and exports, to aid in the diversification of economics, and to reinforce and expand cultural confidence and ties with overseas communities.

Their main reasons for accepting the risk of providing capital to infrastructure projects are the prospect of remuneration and the interest in diversifying investment. D. Parties to the project

39. Of the three forms of private capital flow (loans, FDI and portfolio equity), FDI and portfolio equity investments are more relevant in the present context of African economies.

The amount of direct investment under automatic approval was raised continuously from 2 million in 1992, 15 million in 1995, 100 million in 1999 and any amount up to 200 per cent of their net worth in 2005.

24. In cooperation with other international organisations, development banks, donor agencies, local governments, NGOs and private investment companies, the UNCTAD secretariat has undertaken a census of microbanks worldwide with the aim of identifying potential recipients of private investment funds, as well as appropriate investment instruments.

Moreover, there had been a healthy diversification of FDI target sectors.

That experience points to the importance of mobilizing investment resources, promoting regional integration among developing countries, and enhancing South South cooperation.

UNCTAD apos s experience in the area of FDI should also be used to discuss the proposals for a multilateral investment agreement, in cooperation with other international organizations such as WTO and OECD.