The Provident Fund loans are not considered an investment asset.

Investment strategy is simply the long term allocation of monies among the various asset types and investment markets.

For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed asset investment for growth.

Nor, therefore, is their interest in housing as a major speculative investment asset likely to change.

Circumstances have forced more and more investors to look for new investment opportunities by adding unconventional asset classes and applying new investment theories and technologies to meet their investment requirements.

But domestic demand, which determines imports, consists not only of consumption, but also of fixed asset investment.

That, in turn, may cause higher investment or asset bubbles, as businesses seek to reinvest their savings somewhere.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 .

Objective 6. Develop an investment policy and asset allocation which reflect the Fund's strategic purpose of funding liabilities.

In the old days, when communist central planning suffocated China s economy, fixed asset investment was the regime s measure of economic progress.

But domestic demand, which determines imports, consists not only of consumption, but also of fixed asset investment. Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.

While normal banks need an equity asset ratio of at least 7 , investment banks typically operated on a ratio of only 4 .

From 2008 to 2012, fixed asset investment in China amounted to 136 trillion, or 2.6 times more than the country s 2012 GDP.

An asset diet rich in equities and direct investment and low in debt cannot substitute for other elements of fiscal and financial health.

Fixed asset investment in India rose by only 2.3 in the first half of 2012, compared to 9 in the year earlier period.

The Organization's expertise, inter alia in the areas of industrial productivity, technological innovation and investment promotion, was a vital asset to economic development.

The shortfall was met from the Pitcairn Investment Fund, which was managed by an asset management company on behalf of the Pitcairn Administration.

It represents their commitment to managing natural resources in a sustainable manner and to boost investment in Africa's most valuable asset its people.

Asset recovery

Asset management

Asset management

Second, it increases global asset demand, generating asset price inflation.

(e) The new investment officer will be specialized in alternative asset management, the skills for which significantly differ from those for conventional portfolio management.

The asset that is purchased need not be a physical asset.

In 1995 2010, when China s average annual GDP growth rate was 9.9 , fixed asset investment (investment in infrastructure and real estate projects) increased by a factor of 11.2, rising at an average annual rate of 20 .

Digital asset management

This approach enables the investment decision maker to establish a strategic asset allocation (a long term policy guideline), in accordance with the fund's liability structure.

The Incredible Vanishing Asset

Initiative Fixed asset tracking

Audit of asset management

Water as an asset

Automated asset management system

Paribas Asset Management, Paris

Warburg Asset Management, London

So it's an asset.

That's an asset, right?

In contrast to lending activities, banks commitment to foreign markets has remained virtually unaffected with respect to purely intermediary activities such as investment banking and asset management.

Considering the relatively small portion of the Fund's asset invested in such equities, one can easily understand that outsourcing this type of investment is a reasonable option.

Short term investments and reserves had posted double digit returns in 9 of the 24 years for which investment returns have been calculated for this asset category.

Traditional lending and deposit taking still offers much growth potential and may become more attractive relative to investment banking or asset management as a result of new regulation.

Total fixed asset investment amounted to 41.6 of GDP, on average, peaking at 67 of GDP in 2009, a level that would be unthinkable in most developed countries.

Asset on board. En route.

Though the evidence that monetary stimulus produces increased investment and a business upturn is patchy, its effects on financial markets and asset prices are very easy to document quickly.

(b) During the biennium, investment managers Lombard Odier et Cie and Paribas Asset Management were appointed, making a total of seven managers for the United States dollar denominated Fund.