Returns the number of periods of an investment.

(b) Short term investments (number of actions)

(8) As regards long term equity investment, it is required to separately list the beginning balance, ending balance and current and accumulative amounts of unrecognized investment losses of each invested entity.

In the asset management industry, there have traditionally been two types of investment strategies passive and active. The passive approach includes investment in indices that track specific benchmarks, say, the S P 500 for the United States or an index of advanced economies or emerging market equities.

Item Number of countries that introduced changes in their investment regimes

As for the number of new investors, there were about 310,000 new investors each week in July, which still stayed at a low level.

The volume of FDI was inadequate.

IPMT calculates the amount of a payment of an annuity going towards interest.

PPMT calculates the amount of a payment of an annuity going towards principal.

Source UNCTAD, database on BITs.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

Most countries have investment promotion agencies.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

(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)

Invest, invest, invest.

He noted that even though FDI inflows into Africa had increased in 2003 and 2004, most of this increase was accounted for by investment in natural resources exploitation.

While the focus of most investment promotion efforts are on attracting FDI, the promotion of outward investment has become more prominent in recent years.

Number of countries that introduced changes in their investment regimes

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investments amounted to only 9.9 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively, of total net resource flows to the region, while FDI profit remittances slightly exceeded FDI inflows.

They accounted for 17 per cent and 24 per cent respectively of OFDI approvals and stock.

The International Investment Attractiveness Index of Credit Suisse Bank includes four sub indices infrastructure, economic outlook, business environment and direct investment.

These flows, mainly foreign direct investment, are, however, concentrated in a few large developing countries, while flows to other regions have been in steady decline.

The biggest contributor to that performance was United States investments, which comprise the majority of the Fund apos s real estate portfolio.

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNCs database.

This pattern, however, does not apply to most services investments.

Data collection for investment goods is also under way.

(b) Improve the collection and dissemination of financial and other data necessary for investors to take judicious investment decisions

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

The share of inward FDI in the distribution sector is relatively small as most investment is directed towards the oil and gas industry.

We continue to incur considerable expenditure for the collection of data as a primary investor and now as a Contractor.

It created a new website dedicated to FDI and TNC statistics (www.unctad.org fdistatistics), a site of comprehensive and integrated data sets on FDI and operations of TNCs, drawn from UNCTAD's database on FDI and TNCs.

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 number of OFDI approvals, as well as the size of OFDI flows, has increased significantly in the past decade.

Note Figures for 1976 1983 include only equity capital indicates the stock of OFDI project accumulated over the past whereas indicates the cumulative number of approved OFDI projects from 1997 to 2004.

Non investment costs had been higher in the past, although they had not included agency support costs, and he noted that most of those non investment costs had already been approved.

He noted that even though FDI inflows into Africa had increased in 2003 and 2004, most of this increase was accounted for by investment in natural resources exploitation.

The Brazilian Government has invested in increasing the number of reference services.

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database (www.unctad.org fdi statistics).

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database. (www.unctad.org fdistatistics).

In the overwhelming majority of countries, local private capital formation constituted the bulk of investment.

The latest World Investment Report referred to the level of investment by pharmaceutical TNCs in Brazil but showed how only a few of these firms actually invested in research and development in the country.

11. Environmental investments total investments

The methodology is quite demanding in terms of quantitative work and would require an important investment in human resources.

The Investment Management Service will be easily able to use retained historical data from all data sources and will be better positioned to proactively verify data and perform in depth analysis and internal audit.

Most investment in modern biotechnology has been in developed countries.