The U.S. Supreme Court yanked away the welcome mat for foreign securities plaintiffs in Morrison v.
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Reform, he argues, would channel more household money into private funds that can invest in foreign securities.
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Morgan, an American bank, planned to increase their holdings of foreign securities by more than 50% this year.
The gossip in Tokyo is that last year some life companies gambled and lost heavily on foreign securities.
Investors in general have a much greater percentage of equity exposure invested in foreign securities than 10 or 20 years ago.
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The January 28 Nihon Keizai Shimbun lead story was the recent substantial increase in hiring by foreign securities firms in Tokyo.
In some countries, pension funds have been directed to invest heavily in government bonds, and severe restrictions have been put on investments in foreign securities.
Foreign securities are another option, but investors can buy them only through a securities firm, and the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act still puts obstacles in their way.
In China, Mr Caballero argues, this is done indirectly through the state, which buys foreign securities, such as Treasuries, then issues bonds of its own, which are held by Chinese banks, companies and households.
To help reduce net foreign-currency inflows, the government announced plans earlier this month that would make it possible for the first time though still subject to quotas for firms and ordinary Chinese to invest in foreign securities markets.
Meanwhile, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for all contracts of foreign securities firms to be annulled and blamed the government for failing to protect Iraqis, noting the shootings occurred on a busy square filled with Iraqi troops.
But spurred by a succession of foreign securities that have lost value as a result of divestment campaigns, the prospect of official economic sanctions, negative media attention, and coordinated opposition to initial public offerings, the SEC has changed its tune.
We still do not know how much of this money was actually transferred from the six countries under study (since the Nazis were very active in looting the assets they could find, and especially wanted to lay their hands on foreign securities).
Under the so-called 5-3-3-2 rule, applied by both the finance ministry and the health ministry, half the pension-fund investments had to be in assets (such as bonds) where return of the principal was guaranteed, not more than 30% in domestic equities, 30% in foreign securities and 20% in property.
Nevertheless, it is only prudent that the U.S. investor community be equipped with the information needed in prospectuses and other disclosure-related documentation to make purchasing decisions vis a vis foreign securities that are consistent not only with their financial goals and expectations, but with their most coveted values and perceptions of our national security interests.
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Ms Junz looks at the wealth of those citizens she can identify as Jewish on the basis of contemporary documents and is able to make informed estimates as to how that wealth was held: in commercial enterprises or in financial assets, a significant part of which was foreign (one of the surprises is how frequently individuals in the 1930s owned foreign securities).
Among potential problems with shorter settlement cycles were issues around securities lending, foreign exchange transaction and delivery of physical securities.
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They are also buying foreign-currency securities, which is helping to drive down the yen.
While this fund offers diversification across stocks, bonds, and cash, as well as foreign and domestic securities, concerns remain.
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It is top of the class in some of the wholesale businesses, such as foreign exchange, securities lending and global custody.
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Regrettably, CalPERS, and its sister organization, the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), have to this point largely resisted efforts to ensure that the foreign companies' securities purchased for their respective international portfolios are engaged in "good practices" with respect to national security, political and press freedoms and other human rights issues.
Among them: hedge funds, untraded securities, foreign-exchange contracts, precious-metal bullion, tax liens, natural-gas wells, private mortgages and other secured debt, movie partnerships, cattle, fishing rights and even investments in bull semen.
But it would ultimately force the central bank to buy such securities as foreign bonds, corporate bonds and Japanese government bonds and possibly even land, to make sure that the money finally begins to circulate and doesn't get stuck in a banking sinkhole again.
National Australia Bank, the court rejected securities suits by foreign plaintiffs over foreign stocks in U.S. courts.
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Soft dollar and proprietary trading, securities lending, foreign exchange and custody arrangements are additional issues in need of review.
During last week's negotiations over raising the government's debt limit there was even a suicidal proposal to restrict foreign ownership of American Treasury securities.
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They pointed to Target 2 Securities and a foreign exchange trade depository being developed by DTCC and SWIFT as examples of industry platforms which will be used by multiple institutions.
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Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said just chatter from Iran and Israel could push the risk premium on crude higher.
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Bart Melek, vice president and director head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said that change in strategy by the Fed to outright purchases is supportive to gold.
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"I think it's safe to say that the G-20 endorsement of Japan's monetary policies is enough of a cue to lift the pair above Y100, " said Kengo Suzuki, foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho Securities.
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