Institutional investors receive funds from individuals and invest them in publicly traded companies.

Attracting even a fraction of the assets held by institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and public pension funds could boost development finance substantially.

These shareholders are represented by institutional investors (pension funds, etc.) whose interests, agendas, and cozy relationships often align them more closely with firms CEOs and managers.

Institutional investors, such as pension funds and life insurance companies, with more than 70 trillion in assets, are a major additional source of long term capital.

As it continues its reliance on global funds, the United Nations system should further explore the most effective institutional and operational ways of relating to them.

The World Bank report also points out that, as a consequence of banking retrenchment, institutional investors with long term liabilities such as pension funds, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds may be called upon to assume a greater role in funding long term assets.

The emergence of institutional investors, such as pension funds and insurance companies, can encourage the development of stock markets, being an important source of demand for financial assets.

4. Requests the international community to support the efforts of all countries to strengthen institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks for preventing corruption, bribery, money laundering and illegal transfer of funds, as well as for the repatriation of those funds to the countries of origin

4. Requests the international community to support the efforts of all countries to strengthen institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks for preventing corruption, bribery, money laundering and the transfer of funds of illicit origin, as well as for returning such funds to the countries of origin

About 13 per cent of the funds was used to promote the many legislative reforms contemplated in the peace accords, through the Programme of Institutional Assistance for Legal Reform (PROLEY) project.

While individual investors cannot be expected to invest in lobbying for stronger investor protection, it might be hoped that institutional investors mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, and so forth will do so.

Funding for these activities is often provided from (a) learning and innovation loans (LILs) (b) technical assistance loans (TALs) (c) institutional development funds (IDF) and (d) the D evelopment Grant Facility (DGF).

Shareholders organized themselves into pension funds, investment funds, and hedge funds.

Improved institutional mechanisms and governance in relation to water are important in mobilizing funds, but substantive increases in donor assistance are also required and must be complemented by capacity building at all levels.

6. Requests the international community to support national efforts to strengthen human and institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks for preventing corruption, bribery, money laundering and the transfer of funds and assets of illicit origin, and to assist in the return of such funds and assets to the countries of origin

Institutional framework

Institutional arrangements

Institutional reinforcement.

Institutional structure

Institutional mechanisms

Institutional arrangements

Institutional mechanisms

Operating Funds UNDP and UNDP Trust Funds

Brazil s Institutional Limbo

Main institutional support

Institutional capacity building.

Funds

Moreover, in order to deny terrorists institutional support, we must bring institutional strength to Afghanistan.

Institutional and legal framework

Legal and institutional framework

Strengthening the institutional framework.

On the institutional front

On the institutional front

The UNDP institutional context

Strengthen the institutional framework

Institutions and institutional processes

Institutions and institutional processes

Institutional and human capacity

The US Chamber of Commerce opposes all such proposed rules as politically motivated, because the pressure to require disclosure of election related corporate spending does not come from institutional investors, but from government pension funds controlled by elected officials.

Funds mobilization

Trust funds

Funds transfers

Administrative funds

Trust funds

Through pension funds, investment funds, and arbitrage (or hedge) funds, shareholders became well organized and seized power in developed countries firms.