Portfolio management

We teamed designers and investment experts up with 11 water organizations across India.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

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)

We also reaffirm that the Sudan welcomes and encourages private and joint investments in all fields.

(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.

So defense investment is also investment in security and stability, in diplomacy and cooperation, and in technology and innovation. It is an investment in a safer and more prosperous future for our own countries and for the rest of the world.

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 importance of cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the areas of investment and enterprise development was also mentioned.

(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)

As we continue to invest in development of our human capital, HIV AIDS continues to eat away at those investments.

And we don't invest in what's invisible to us.

Source OECD, Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries (Paris OECD, 1993).

Cooperation has been extended to investment guides for LDCs, and investment policy reviews have been conducted jointly.

I had the opportunity in Paris to remind our colleagues in the OECD that we should not repeat in the investment field the mistake that was made with the negotiations on services.

In this regard, UNCTAD was encouraged to offer greater support to the OECD NEPAD Investment Initiative to improve the investment climate in African countries so as to promote both domestic and foreign direct investment.

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

27. There are three main categories of private resource flow loans, foreign direct investment (FDI), and portfolio equity investment.

You have to realize that the investments we do in progress are long term investments.

31. In addition, to enable investors to minimize their risks and to diversify their portfolios, there is a need to widen the investment sphere. This requires assisting the MFIs which are potentially eligible for this kind of investment in making their case vis à vis potential investors.

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.

It would be in our collective interest to devote our resources and capacities, intellectual and material, in favour of that campaign.

And then, turning round to the other side of the equation, I have personally supervised the investment of tens of millions of dollars into companies who have been pitching me with PowerPoint presentations.

It has created 200 jobs, 20 per cent of them for women.

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.

A state of the art system will allow the Investment Management Service to rapidly and accurately handle complex investment data and analyse the portfolio risk and its performance.

The world wants to invest in our potential.

We also welcome private investment, given its role in realizing our strategic objectives against poverty.

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.

Funds invested, and reinvested, in the S amp P composite from 1998 2008 have yielded a real return of zero the dividends earned on the portfolio have been just enough to offset inflation. Not since 1982 has a decade passed at the end of which investors would have been better off had they placed their money in corporate or United States Treasury bonds rather than in a diversified portfolio of stocks.

Funds invested, and reinvested, in the S P composite from 1998 2008 have yielded a real return of zero the dividends earned on the portfolio have been just enough to offset inflation. Not since 1982 has a decade passed at the end of which investors would have been better off had they placed their money in corporate or United States Treasury bonds rather than in a diversified portfolio of stocks.

Examples of the latter could include provisions aimed at enterprise development, OFDI promotion programmes and outbound investment missions in conjunction with investment promotion authorities.

(e) The new investment officer will be specialized in alternative asset management, the skills for which significantly differ from those for conventional portfolio management.

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

Despite our interest in attracting investments, and despite our efforts to create a climate conducive to the flow of investments, the fact still remains that investment agreements should strike a fair balance between protecting the rights of the investor, on the one hand and ensuring the rights and interests of the receiving States, on the other.

It's the best way to protect our investment.

A combination of technical cooperation, financing investment and other inputs would be necessary.

A combination of technical cooperation, financing, investment and other inputs would be required.

Because diligent investors and venture funds have committed over 7.5 million dollars in funding.

We leave our money for 10 to 15 years, and when we get it back, we invest in other innovations that focus on change.

I took part, on Monday, in the discussions about the work that has been undertaken by OECD regarding the negotiations of a plurilateral framework on investment.