Many countries provide investors in publicly traded firms with levels of protection that are patently inadequate.

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.

In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

In 2001, 72 of institutional investors and 74 of individual investors chose increase. By May 2007, only 48 of institutional investors and 59 of individual investors chose increase.

An emphasis on investment protection could establish de facto international standards that ensure legal security for investors while providing sufficient scope for governments legitimate regulatory interests.

Investors take all kinds of risks.

While it was pointed out that there was no causal connection between international investment agreements (IIAs) and attracting FDI, it was nevertheless emphasized that the protection of investors would encourage the flow of investments.

Ivy League Investors

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets.

These countries have opened their markets to foreign investors and foreign investors are responding eagerly.

Investors eventually do learn.

Many investors echo Soros.

Investors should take note.

But investors should be wary of this argument.

A rights based approach to FDI could promote global partnerships, recognizing responsibilities for both investors and recipient countries to ensure that profit considerations do not result in crowding out human rights protection.

Currently, new investors' interest is picking up, and some investors established before 1998 have dramatically increased capacity.

Are Foreign Investors Still Welcome?

A TMG official reassures investors

This issue is of persistent concern for investors worldwide.

Index funds are an example of such powerful investors.

Only such a pledge can provide the type of certainty that investors any investors will need if the Spratly resources are to be developed.

Other Turkish investors express similar complaints.

This should give confidence to investors.

Other Turkish investors express similar complaints.

But enlightened companies require enlightened investors.

And the same respect for creditor rights that reassures domestic investors reassures foreign investors both official and private as well.

The expected one year increase in the Dow in 2005 averages 4.8 for institutional investors and 4.3 for individual investors.

This suggests that a reevaluation of the costs and benefits of FDI was already underway, led, interestingly enough, by developed countries, which in the past had championed liberalization of entry and operational conditions for foreign investors and their protection under international law.

Essentially, by buying long term Treasury bonds from private investors portfolios, the Fed hopes that these investors will rebalance their portfolios.

Therefore, Governments would increasingly have to defend their investors' interests abroad while protecting themselves against claims filed by foreign investors domestically.

So, again, who will those investors be?

Consider investors in Fannie and Freddie bonds.

Chinese investors are worried about inflationary overheating.

This offers hugely exciting opportunities to investors.

The transformation in investors beliefs is striking.

The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank must show investors that they have enough funding to finance the simultaneous exit of all short term investors.

Talk of haircuts for private investors immediately triggers concerns about contagion.

Political risk and security of tenure present further obstacles to investors.

This is not a matter of the Fed bailing out investors.

Furthermore, SWFs have comparative advantages over other kinds of institutional investors.

For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym.

If there are investors willing to finance U.S. government budget deficit, why wouldn't we find investors willing to finance press freedom deficit?

Secondary investments provide institutional investors with the ability to improve vintage diversification, particularly for investors that are new to the asset class.

International Protection Including Through Complementary Forms of Protection

One speaker stressed that some Asian developing economies were already significant investors and some were emerging as investors, such as China and India.