Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

Investment protection treaties

The act was introduced in the Senate on August 5, 2010 as S. 3717 and given the name " A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to provide for certain disclosures under section 552 of title 5, United States Code, ( commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act ), and for other purposes.

A Guaranteed Investment Certificate or GIC is a Canadian investment that offers a guaranteed rate of return over a fixed period of time, most commonly issued by trust companies or banks.

CAPEX is commonly found on the cash flow statement under " Investment in Plant, Property, and Equipment " or something similar in the Investing subsection.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ( CFIUS, commonly pronounced " sifius ") is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U. S. companies or operations.

Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC ( commonly called PIMCO ), is an investment firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

* WBIG-CitiGroup's World Broad Investment Grade bond index ( commonly CG WBIG ).

As in the Camp case, these interpretations by bank regulators were routinely challenged by the mutual fund industry through the Investment Company Institute or the securities industry through the Securities Industry Association as they sought to prevent competition from commercial banks.

In November 2010, the EU Parliament passed the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which seeks to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment fund managers operating in the EU.

In 1995 Senator Coats introduced S. 568: Family, Investment, Retirement, Savings, and Tax Fairness Act which would provide " family tax credits, increase national savings through individual retirement plus accounts, indexing for inflation the income thresholds for taxing social security benefits, etc ".

In June 2007 Doughty Hanson became one of the first private equity signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment ( UNPRI ), which provide a framework for incorporating environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) issues into investment decision-making and ownership practices.

The Commission will then propose a financial instrument run by the European Investment Bank to provide debt and equity finance for cultural and creative industries.

The SIB revoked the recognition of The Financial Intermediaries, Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association ( FIMBRA ) as a Self-Regulatory Organisation ( SRO ) in the United Kingdom June 1994 subject to a transitional wind-down period to provide for continuity of regulation whilst members moved to the Personal Investment Authority ( PIA ), which in turn was subsumed.

Lautenberg is primary sponsor of the S. 294 " Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 " ( Full Text ), which would fund Amtrak for the next five years and provide opportunity for expansion.

A second Comecon bank, the International Investment Bank, was established in 1970 to provide a mechanism for the joint financing of such projects.

Sweeney also proposed creating a Center for Strategic Campaigns to coordinate all national contract campaigns ; creating a Strategic Campaign Fund to provide grants to unions in difficult organizing and contract fights ; creating a Strike Support Team of organizers that could be deployed to help support strikes ; and establishing a Pension Investment Clearinghouse to provide information on how pensions are invested and to help mobilize investments in support of organizing.

Ltd., authorized and regulated by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, provide the company ’ s forex brokerage offering.

The Commission will then propose a financial instrument run by the European Investment Bank to provide debt and equity finance for cultural and creative industries.

The NCIDC administers a Workforce Investment Act ( WIA ) program, previously called the JTPA, which is available to provide quality employment and training services to assist eligible individuals in finding and qualifying for meaningful employment, and to help employers find skilled workers.

The thrust of this study, which led to the passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act, was to provide a closer look at investment trusts and investment companies.

VFM is licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority (“ MFSA ”) to provide Investment Services Business for Collective Investment Schemes in Malta and to operate as a “ Maltese Company ” pursuant to the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securies regulations (“ UCITS ”).

Investment plans, similar to that of Batam, were evolved with basic intention to provide leisure space to Singaporeans on the white beaches of Bintan and this approach also conformed to the Indonesian Policy of declaring the 1990s as the " decade of Visit Indonesia ".

* The Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act for the 21st Century ( AIR-21 ), which provides a record $ 46 billion to provide safety and security of the nation's aviation system.

Investment clubs provide members a means to learn about markets, while meeting and working with people who have similar interests.

The basis of the map is to provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 areas for Regional Selective Assistance grants ( RSA ), recently re-titled as Selective Finance for Investment in the English Regions ( SFI ), but remaining as RSA in Wales and Scotland, and additionally large areas of the UK, where a lower level of grant aid can also be made available to Small and Medium companies.

The number of bilateral investment agreements increased rapidly during the 1990s as countries and investors sought more regulation for security, certainty and mobility for their investments after it became clear that the Uruguay Round's Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures ( TRIMS ), Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ( TRIPS ) and General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) addressed only part of investment-related concerns and did not provide enough security for investors nor strong controls on host governments to regulate multinational corporations.

That bank handles most of the paper work for Diversified Growth Stock Fund, Fundamental Investors, Diversified Investment Fund and Television-Electronics Fund.

On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

Through the Internet, a movement began to develop in opposition to the doctrines of neoliberalism which were widely manifested in the 1990s when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) proposed liberalisation of cross-border investment and trade restrictions through its Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ).

* Chief Investment Officer or CIO – high-level corporate officer responsible for the assets of an investment vehicle or investment management company and / or responsible for the asset-liability management ( ALM ) of typical large financial institutions such as insurers, banks and / or pension funds ; generally reports to the CEO or CFO.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal ( 2007 ), providing a context for American public works programs, and detailing major agencies of the New Deal: CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA, and TVA.

The European Investment Fund, established in 1994, is a European Union agency for the provision of finance to SMEs ( small and medium-sized enterprises ), headquartered in Luxembourg.

* European Investment Bank ( see below for European Investment Fund ) European Navigator

# Investment and accumulation goals: planning how to accumulate enough money for large purchases, and life events is what most people consider to be financial planning.

Hayek continued his research on monetary and capital theory, revising his theories of the relations between credit cycles and capital structure in Profits, Interest and Investment ( 1939 ) and The Pure Theory of Capital ( 1941 ), but his reputation as an economic theorist had by then fallen so much that those works were largely ignored, except for scathing critiques by Nicholas Kaldor.

For example, exorbitant bribes were demanded for allowing goods to pass in and out of the Gaza Strip, while heads of the Preventive Security Service apparatus profited from their involvement in the gravel import and cement and construction industries, such as the Great Arab Company for Investment and Development, the al-Motawaset Company, and the al-Sheik Zayid construction project.

* In August 2007, Georgia handed over the management rights of the state-owned Georgian Railway company to the U. K .- based company Parkfield Investment for 89 years.

To keep similar situations around the country from escalating into violence, the government promised to parcel out land belonging to the National Corporation for Investment ( Corporación Nacional de Inversiones — Conadin ).

Although widely reported as a " hedge-fund IPO ", the IPO of Fortress Investment Group LLC was for the sale of the investment manager, not of the hedge funds that it managed.

Before the Dodd-Frank Act made registration mandatory for hedge fund advisers with more than US $ 150 million in assets under management, hedge funds were primarily regulated through their managers or advisers, under the anti-fraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

* International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes

Malawi is a member of the following international organizations: UN and some of its specialized and related agencies ( i. e. UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO ), IMF, World Bank, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency ( MIGA ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), Berne Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), Lome Convention, African Development Bank ( AFDB ), Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), the Common Market for East and Southern Africa ( COMESA ), Non-Aligned Movement, G-77, and the World Health Organization ( WHO ).

The Board of Investment targets the international business community and is responsible for attracting international investment and talents in the country.

Earlier this year, Wana sold a 31 % stake for € 228m to the partnership of two Kuwaiti companies, mobile operator Zain and Al Ajial Investment Fund Holding, to help finance the roll out of its 15-year 2G GSM network at the end of 2009.