7. The standard definition of investment in many BITs is deliberately broad and open ended.

To help in achieving that goal, the Fund continued to adhere to its policy of wide diversification by asset class, geography and currency.

Extensive cooperation has taken place with ESCAP in many fields, including trade and investment, trade efficiency, transport, shipping, privatization, and poverty alleviation.

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

In broad terms, this entailed a reorganization of the Service and additional outsourcing.

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.

The Development Committee had also considered the increasingly broad functions of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

(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)

It was decided not only to stimulate a multicultural personnel policy but also to aim for a broad management of diversity on the part of employers.

India also has fairly extensive investments in a number of countries in Africa.

Broadly based improvements in the investment climate expand the pool of potential investors, increasing incentives of informal firms to become part of the formal economy.

(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.

There was intensive cooperation with ILO in the preparation of the World Investment Report 1994 Transnational Corporations, Employment and the Workplace.

The Fund continued to be the most widely diversified pension fund that maintained its accounts in United States dollars but had liabilities in many other currencies.

To the extent that criminal and terrorist organizations share their resources, the synergies could be extensive.

(b) Investment in building an environment conducive to the development of an inclusive financial sector.

Later, the dissemination process was widened to benefit a larger range of citizens.

The report captures a wide range of views and contributions.

It gives us a wide survey of the many activities in which the United Nations is engaged and illustrates its extended reach and coverage in promoting international cooperation.

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

(c) Information materials on the voting process should be made widely available, including in minority languages.

The policy of broad diversification of investments by currency, types of asset classes and geographical areas continued to serve as the most reliable method of protection over long periods of time against the unpredictability and volatility of financial markets.

Many countries have offered a wide array of assistance, financial and otherwise.

Adding 400 billion would increase the pool substantially. Together with asset backed securities, covered bonds, and corporate bonds, 1 trillion of assets the threshold widely thought to make quantitative easing by the ECB credible would be available for purchase.

The information received was extensive and too voluminous to include in its entirety.

The broader context in which these discussions take place is laid out in the World Investment Report, 1996 Investment, Trade and International Policy Instruments, Part Three and relevant international investment instruments are contained in International Investment Instruments A Compendium.

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.

It requires extensive research to identify firms that are likely candidates to invest in the country and ways in which those investments can be made to meet investor needs and development objectives.

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The use of outer space in Morocco was becoming ever more developed, extensive and diversified.

As a step towards a broader discussion of issues relevant to a possible multilateral framework on investment (MFI), the present meeting of experts is invited to discuss bilateral treaties for the protection and promotion of foreign investment (also known as bilateral investment treaties (BITs)), as these address issues of relevance to a possible MFI.

(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

IRIN synthesizes and analyses information from a wide variety of sources.

In the process, information and communication technologies had become more widespread, which had had an impact on trade, investment and the management of financial markets.

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

This is part of the broader resource constraints facing the United Nations as a whole.

Uganda, for example, has adopted a wide range of measures to improve the investment climate, including the setting up of the Ugandan Investment Authority, a one stop facilitator for investors, whose aim is to attract, promote and facilitate investment.

The unanimous adoption of the resolution is a vivid demonstration of broad international support for a federal, democratic, pluralist and unified Iraq.

5. As a step towards a broader discussion of issues relevant to a possible multilateral framework on investment (MFI), the present Meeting of Experts is invited to focus on bilateral investment treaties (BITs), since the issues covered in BITs, the ways in which these issues are dealt with, and the impact page 3 of BITS, are directly pertinent to discussions on a possible MFI.

The broader context in which the discussions take place is laid out in the World Investment Report, 1996 Investment, Trade and International Policy Arrangements, Part Three and relevant international investment instruments are contained in International Investment Instruments A Compendium (see box for details).UNCTAD apos s ongoing work in the area of

To a large extent, these projects were supported by federal funding from the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative.

The Clinton global initiative, inaugurated in New York in September 2005, had organized extensive discussions on possible responses to climate change, including exploring business opportunities related to investment in alternative energy sources.

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Foreign direct investment flows can and should be encouraged to a wider circle of developing countries.