Short term investments and reserves

Money market funds take excess cash from investors and use it to purchase short term IOUs from businesses, banks, and other financial institutions. They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment s value will not fall.

(1)Having no available financial resources to continuously provide funds to the financial asset investment so as to hold the financial asset investment until its maturity

Private short term financial flows

54. His Government was concerned that financial liberalization and restrictive monetary policies had uncoupled finance from international trade and investment, leading to short termism and its concomitant lack of commitment to investment in productive assets.

Rule 109.2

Initially, it is anticipated that such investment would be short term only but, depending on the position of the Fund, the Secretary General could authorize longer term investments, consistent with the liquidity requirements of the Fund.

(4) As regards tradable financial assets, it is required to separately list the beginning of period and end of period fair value of tradable bond investment, tradable equity instrument investment, financial assets which are specified to be measured on fair value and whose fluctuations are included in the current profits and losses, derivative financial assets and other tradable financial assets.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

The actual interest rate refers to the interest rate adopted to cash the future cash flow of a financial asset or financial liability within the predicted term of existence or within a shorter applicable term into the current carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability.

On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer term and illiquid assets. This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.

ICTs enabled finance tools include credit or payment cards for export financing or short term working capital.

(b) Short term investments (number of actions)

Investment income and costs associated with operation of investments in the cash pool are allocated to participating funds

As of November 30, 2016, Blackberry s cash, cash equivalents, short term and long term investments amounted to US 1.6 billion.

Cash flows from investing and financing activities

The representative of the Secretary General cautioned against focusing on short term results and reiterated that investment returns should be looked at over the long term as the Fund had long term investment objectives.

(c) Microfinance investment instruments

The remainder of the balance, consisting of donor contributions, was tied up in short term investments, the majority of which were placed in an investment pool in order to increase liquidity.

Article 11The term held to maturity investment refers to a non derivative financial asset with a fixed date of maturity, a fixed or determinable amount of repo price and which the enterprise holds for a definite purpose or the enterprise is able to hold until its maturity.

Although long term private financing, particularly in the form of foreign direct investment, largely maintained its pace and direction in 1997, short term financial flows exhibited violent moves.

To some extent, this is understandable, given the focus on short term liquidity and capital flows. But the sharply decreased availability of longer term funding is heightening financial sector vulnerabilities.

47. The fluctuations in financial markets, caused by speculative short term capital flows, threatened the healthy development of the world economy.

Net cash from investing and financing

Particularly in the form of short term loans and portfolio equity, these inflows could be highly unstable and an unreliable source of development finance.

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.

Total 151.59 49. These funds were invested in short term time deposits ( 97.5 million) bonds and notes ( 53.7 million), which are longer term investments and call accounts ( 0.4 million) for immediate access.

(3)Any other circumstance showing that the enterprise concerned is not able to hold the fixed term financial asset investment until its maturity.

(2) such insurance fund operation as guarantee, financing and investment, etc.

(2)Being subject to the restriction of any law or administrative regulation so that it is hard for the enterprise concerned to hold the financial asset investment until its maturity

Similarly, the temporary control of short term capital flows could be adopted in the case of a country in deep financial crisis.

And it's only a few months since governments injected enormous sums of money to try and keep the whole system afloat.

The second financial rule that privileges repos is that money market funds must keep their portfolios extremely liquid, because their customers draw checks on their deposits. The cash therefore goes into short term investments often via repos to financial firms with risky investments.

At the request of the Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Office of Internal Oversight Services conducted a review of the state of discipline in all field missions led by the Department, with the major objective of assisting the Department's senior management in determining a course of action to strengthen United Nations standards of conduct and ensure compliance.

Hiring through purchase orders

The General Assembly at its resumed fifty seventh session in June 2003 (resolution 57 290 B) requested the Joint Inspection Unit to submit to it at its sixtieth session an evaluation of the implementation of results based budgeting in peacekeeping operations.

(e) Recommend criteria and measures for the effective adaptation and use of the results based management principles, methodology and techniques to meet the specific needs of those activities that would ensure the achievement of the overall objectives of the operations concerned.

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the United Nations peacekeeping operations comprising statements numbered I to XLIII and the supporting notes for the financial period ended 30 June 2005.

In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the United Nations peacekeeping operations as at 30 June 2005 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period then ended, in accordance with the United Nations system accounting standards.

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.

55. During the 1996 1997 biennium, FAO prepared a number of investment projects and programmes for financing by the multilateral financing institutions total investments mobilized for those projects amounted to some 411 million.

Some invest abroad for financial motives.

(d) South South Conference on Trade, Investments and Finance.

Where the future cash flow or term of existence of a financial asset or financial liability cannot be predicted reliably, the contractual cash flow of the financial asset or financial liability for the whole term of the contract shall be taken into account.

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.