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

So you don't want to optimize for efficiency, you want to optimize for power per dollar.

Portfolio management

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

(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)

(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)

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.

Such modalities should optimize the resources of concerned regional organizations and of the various components of the United Nations system on the basis of their comparative strengths.

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

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.

National investment and policy priorities

International organizations should operate on an integrated cross sector based approach in order to ensure the optimum utilization of resources across sectors. agreed

China is providing investment insurance and tax breaks to companies that invest abroad.

Optimizing the use of resources.

(b) Regional investment programme for ECO member countries.

Investing in library based human capital will become an essential budgetary priority of the Organization.

Over reliance on supplementary funding makes United Nations organizations vulnerable to changes in donor preferences and priorities, both in terms of the level and the composition of funding.

(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.

This policy has led to the inclusion of private cultural investment among the priority investment sectors (development support sectors), which enjoy many fiscal and financial advantages under the new Single Investment Code (tax exemptions, grants, access to bank credit ...).

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

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

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

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

(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)

26. The spokesman for the African Group (Morocco) noted that the globalization and liberalization of foreign investment had stimulated the interest of developing countries in negotiating international investment agreements, and participating in the WTO Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment.

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.

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

The Bank would help developing countries to benefit from the investment by States members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in controlling climate change.

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.

36. With regard to the promotion of inward FDI, countries needed to elaborate a promotion strategy targeting investors and to identify the comparative advantages they could offer the latter, as well as impediments to investment.

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.

Three recent trends should be noted the protection of investment, the liberalization of investment frameworks and the promotion of investment.

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.

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.

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

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.

The preference for joint ventures and greenfield investment has a great deal to do with the lack of firm specific advantages among these SMEs from Singapore.

Investments in health care also remained a priority for specialized United Nations agencies during the reporting period.

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.

They convert investor intentions into actual investment and ensure continued satisfaction through the life of the investment ( aftercare ).

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.