Fundline includes portfolio investment funds, private equity funds and companies, venture capital funds, mutual funds and other equity vehicles.

70. This involves activities related to the use of the mechanism of investment funds (country funds, venture capital funds or specific sectoral investment funds) to attract foreign investment flows in least developed countries.

Cuba supported investment that created infrastructure and contributed capital, market and technology elements.

Other complementary sources of equity capital may include investment funds and other so called institutional investors such as insurance companies, mutual funds or pension funds.

All LDCs that meet basic investment criteria will be able to benefit from UNCDF expertise and investment.

4. Other capital providers Capital providers other than commercial banks and international financial institutions may include institutional investors such as insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds or investment funds.

While it was not possible to find a pension fund portfolio sufficiently similar to the Fund apos s against which investment returns might be compared, a strategic benchmark for the Fund had been implemented on 1 January 1997.

Investments will be made subject to programme country demand, matched by adequate funding, and fulfillment of basic investment criteria.

The Fund invests globally and has liabilities in a number of currencies.

(33) As regards investment yield, it is required to make disclosure of investment yield in current year and that in last year by securities category (like government securities and funds, etc.).

All payments made in reimbursement of sums allocated from the Fund's resources and income from investment of its capital are added to its resources.

More fully integrated capital markets, to provide project capital and investment funds, are required in order to improve the whole infrastructure of the region.

(c) Poverty alleviation by, inter alia, increasing investments on infrastructure and basic services

Notwithstanding the growth in the Fund s assets and a complex investment environment, there had been significant improvements in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of investment management.

The Kuwait Investment Authority, also a state owned fund, holds 7 of Daimler. Singapore possesses two SWFs Temasek Holdings, with capital assets of roughly 100 billion, and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, with approximately 330 billion.

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.

C. Investment and capital flows

Investing in the capacity of local government to provide universal basic services is investing in healthier women and families.

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Intensive investment in private residential construction still accounts for the bulk of investment despite a growing share of public investment in infrastructures, financed largely through official transfers since 1994.

The issues to be considered will include (a) prospects for, and constraints on, foreign investment flows to LDCs, through investment funds such as country funds and venture capital funds (b) investment opportunities in LDCs by country and by sector (c) conditions for the creation of investment funds for LDCs.

3. The Investment Management Service has two in house systems (a) a Portfolio Management System, which was installed in 1993 and (b) the Investment Control and Accounting System, which provides automated accounting for the transaction activities of the investments of the Pension Fund.

To carry out the mission and achieve the Fund's goals and objectives, the Investment Section of the Investment Management Service actively manages portfolios of equity, fixed income, real estate and short term investments, constantly analysing capital markets and investment opportunities.

(b) How can home country programmes for disseminating information and support services to their investors be improved?

INCLUDING CAPITAL FLOWS INVESTMENT TRADE

11. Any cash balances in the Revolving Credit Fund would be invested and the income and capital gains or losses added to or substracted from the Fund.

8. The liberalization of cross border flows had led to the internationalization of investments by institutional funds.

As far as Chinese demand is concerned, investment in infrastructure is continuing, although the share of capital investment in GDP has been approaching very high levels.

Rokid previously raised US 8.3 million in August 2014 in the Angel Round from IDG, Linear Venture, Mfund and Vision Capital. In October 2014, the company again received at least US 10 million in Series A funding led by Walden International, with the Angel investors as participants. On November 1, 2016, Rokid completed Series B funding, led by Advantech Capital other investors included IDG, Mfund, Vision Capital and Walden International.

This dataset takes account of only the approved equity capital for projects in production and under implementation, not actual, and does not cover reinvested earnings and other capital.

Countries need to ensure sustainable public investment in the essential public health functions.

The good news is that growing discipline seems to be pushing out low return investment. And there is every reason to believe that investment will remain high as the economy s capital base expands.

Taming Speculative Capitalism

More must also be invested in the provision of basic services in the affected areas.

It is expected that other similar investment funds will be established, which should increase the amount, and consequently decrease the costs, of funds available for lending to the poor.

Conditions for the creation of investment funds in LDCs

A large scale program to reboot America s crumbling infrastructure would go a long way toward addressing this gap between assets and liabilities, providing pension funds with investments with long time horizons (and thus guaranteeing the incomes of tomorrow s retirees) while leveraging private capital for the public good. In fact, US pension funds are already investing in infrastructure, but they are doing so in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

9. The Government s capital budget estimates form the basis of the public sector investment programme, which is financed through the Development Fund.

Japan's basic assistance policy was based on four pillars a peace first approach, construction of social infrastructure, capacity building, and the importance of trade and investment.

Income derived from investments, other than trust fund investments, shall be credited to the general fund as miscellaneous income.

The portion of the State budget allocated to basic investment has risen from 10 to 30 per cent in the past five years.

All call for substantial capital investment.

(b) Financial incentives provide finance for new investment or to defray capital or operation costs.

Training of staff at all levels was an essential investment in the capacity of the Organization to improve, change and adapt.

(c) Promote public investments in their territories and supervise their proper implementation