Jefri, who served as finance minister and head of the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), which administers part of the national reserves, led the effort to diversify the economy away from its almost total reliance on oil revenue.
According to a Reuters report, support could be backed up with investment efforts and direct shares of Cypriot gas reserves.
The dollar's dominance of trade invoicing, investment and official reserves is much bigger than America's weight in the world economy seems to justify.
Once this strategy has been fully executed, they should also consider putting a portion of their emergency reserves in an investment within their Roth IRA that is conservative and provides liquidity.
Additionally, the rise of Islamism threatens to disrupt the flow of oil and natural gas from the region - a significant share of the world market - while discouraging investment in untapped reserves that could lessen dependence on Middle East supplies.
In Bolivia's case, Morales is exploiting the "indigenous cause" tapping into people's sensitivities while the real problem is the future of the country's gas reserves which need investment to keep up with production.
For A123, which used up 60 percent of its cash reserves in the last quarter, the investment comes as a major relief.
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Eventually, when interest rates elevate their multi-billion dollar investment portfolios, state mandated reserves, must throw off a higher rate of return.
What would be of foremost importance in this rebalancing process would be to bring the large trade surpluses and foreign-exchange reserves down and shifting the driver of economic growth from investment and exports to domestic consumption, argues Thornton.
Michael Trippitt of Oriel Securities said HSBC had been looked at unfairly by the market for having a relatively low core capital ratio, a key measure of a bank's reserves to back up its lending and investment portfolio.
Worse trouble has been staved off by seven years of budget restraint, large foreign-exchange reserves and a hefty overseas investment portfolio.
One of them - Rockhopper - says it has found significant reserves and is seeking investment partners to begin production.
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Rathlin Energy was awarded their exploratory licence in 2008 by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to explore the north coast for potential oil and gas reserves.
It says it has sufficient reserves to fund the expansion even as other companies are holding back on investment because of global economic weakness.
Rather than basing the volume of reserves on an arbitrary time horizon, this concept would mitigate risk without driving away the investment Israel needs to leverage the enormous promise of abundant offshore energy.
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At Ockham, our view of the quarter is mixed as trading revenues and fees from investment banking were rather anemic, yet credit concerns are easing to the point that they can take funds out of their reserves.
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