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

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.

(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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

(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)

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

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.

If they perceive that the dollar and dollar bonds have become riskier, they will want to change the distribution of assets in their portfolios. So, even if the dollar is still regarded as the safest of assets, the demand for dollars will decline if its relative safety is seen to have declined.

OFDI from developing countries rose from 147 billion in 1990 to over 1 trillion in 2004.

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.

(a) The Investment Management Service should review the possibility of further diversifying its investment portfolio (asset classes) using alternative investments, within its tenets of safety, profitability, liquidity and convertibility, and inform the Pension Board of the results of the review for its consideration (AS2003 801 02 003)

Privatizations had been the main engine behind the FDI flows, though the dependence upon too few investing countries had not permitted proper differentiation.

Also, an investment team specialized in developing countries and in alternative investments would increase the probability of higher investment returns and would also offer a better risk management capability as a result of further diversification.

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

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.

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

Moreover, the management of cultural diversity in a system of organizations as culturally diverse as that of the United Nations might appear to some as superfluous.

SKS raised more equity from investors such as Sequoia and Odyssey Capital, before going public on the Indian stock exchange in 2010, raising about 358 million at a valuation exceeding 1.6 billion. Impact investors support eventually led to flows of commercial capital both VC funding and IPO investors into Compartamos, SKS, and many other microfinance institutions.

Recognizing the importance of government investment in promoting innovation and growth implies the need to rethink the conventional wisdom about state intervention. Instead of focusing on picking individual technologies or firms, public organizations should act like investors, betting on a diversified portfolio of choices.

In 2004, China's direct investment in Africa reached 135 million, a record high for China's annual direct investment in Africa.

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.

(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

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

There are encouraging signs of growing investor interest in African securities portfolios.

The elements of MEGCs used for the transport of UN 1013 carbon dioxide and UN 1070 nitrous oxide shall be isolated by a valve into assemblies of not more than 3000 litres.

Foreign investment in the Russian Federation currently stood at 9 billion it was hoped that the inflow of foreign investment would reach from 3 to 3.5 billion during the current year.

20. The policy in the second half of the 1970s was to rationalize food subsidy and divert more resources from consumption to investment.

After deduction of investment management costs amounting to 29,883,419, net investment income was 1,626,041,068.

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?

Or the deposits can be investments in D.E. Shaw s funds and the loans can be the complex derivatives that make up D.E. Shaw s portfolio.

Figure 18 Cost of management of the Fund's portfolio by the Investment Management Service

(b) Regional investment programme for ECO member countries.

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.

Economic and trade diversification could be crucial, and donor commitments to investment in economic diversification could be essential.

200 of it all set to invest.

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.