In response to foreign institutional demand, some asset management companies are refocusing on Japan.
For years, Japan's stock market has been dominated by day traders and foreign institutional investors.
They have also sparked interest from foreign institutional investors, who were conspicuously absent at the start.
Totoscommesse is run by Snai, which is part of Trenno, a listed company with large foreign institutional investors.
Foreign institutional investors and their sub-accounts can invest directly into any of the stocks listed on any of the stock exchanges.
Foreign institutional investors mainly consist of mutual funds, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, banks, asset management companies etc.
Currently, foreign investors have limited access to Chinese markets except through programs such as the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor, or QFII, program.
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Foreign institutional investors seem to think this bird can still fly.
The bottom line: If continued, sales of Chinese listed banks shares by foreign institutional investors could cause a major correction of the Shanghai and Hong Kong Exchanges.
The three control roughly 30% of China Petrochemical Development and have been courting foreign institutional investors and proxies to gain enough votes for their candidates to win board seats.
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For making portfolio investments in India, one should be registered either as a foreign institutional investor ( FII) or as one of the sub-accounts of one of the registered FIIs.
Foreign institutional investors were doing most of the buying.
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The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.
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Moreover, foreign institutional investors display strong herd instincts.
This makes them consistent with other measures to relax restrictions on the capital account such as the expansion of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, which allows foreigners to bring portfolio investment capital into China but only in a carefully regulated manner.
We will watch Senate and the House conversations on how this emerges and predict this will be a bipartisan 2013 comprehensive immigration bill that will not only create more jobs and keep brain capital in the US but also increase a momentum of retail investors and foreign institutional investors investing in emerging managers in private equity.
The other necessary change is to allow institutional investment, including foreign money, to flow into housing.
These events provide the Japanese Foreign and Finance Ministries with unprecedented institutional authority for shaping alliance economic and financial policies toward Russia and other CIS states.
Such a record is hardly surprising given that the committee is chaired by the Treasury Department, whose institutional responsibilities include promoting foreign investment in the United States .
Offer large, attractive, foreign direct-investment opportunities for institutional investors.
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But until February 2005 India prohibited pension funds and other institutional investors--both foreign and domestic--from putting money into real estate, except for IT parks, factories and hotels.
One of them is the decline in domestic institutional stock ownership, and the rise in ownership by foreign investors.
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In response, regulators have cut trading costs, are reforming new listing rules and are encouraging long-term institutional investors such as pension funds, both local and foreign, to enter the market.
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In practice, however, these arrangements make it possible for an unscrupulous foreign entity to register its offering overseas and then market its bonds to Qualified Institutional Buyers through a U.S. holding company.
So do institutional investors such as banks, multinational corporations and central banks that need to hedge against foreign currency value fluctuations.
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