Created in 17th-century France, the tontine is part investment pool, part annuity and part motive for murder.
The return is entirely dependent on the earnings of the underlying investment pool.
The plan is a Petri dish for a potentially much bigger investment pool.
Wells' five-year-old investment pool is in the vanguard of a new trend, "private REITs, " whose shares aren't traded on exchanges.
The SBA has made horrendous blunders in the recent past, including, most significantly, mismanagement of the local government investment pool.
The investment pool he manages for himself and his employees returned more than 20% in 2012, thanks to bets on Hain Celestial Group and CVR Energy.
Or an investor who is seeing good returns from his past investments and is willing to have another dive into the investment pool with his profits?
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Witness the Nov. 6 revelation that the Florida State Board of Administration is being investigated by the SEC for possible fraud involving the local government investment pool it managed.
Because many shareholders own their shares through a mutual fund, a pension plan, or other investment pool actively managed by a third party, they are indirect or passive owners.
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As yields on stocks and bonds continue to hover near zero, pension funds and retail investors are diving headfirst into the murky, rocky end of the investment pool: hedge funds.
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The investment component of variable products is not guaranteed at all, but the assets in the investment pool belong to the annuity holders, not to the insurer or its creditors.
In its Victorian incarnation, a tontine was an investment pool to which a group of speculators contributed capital, the principal and interest to be distributed in a lump sum years later to the last survivor.
While the spectacular demise of the local government investment pool horrendously mismanaged by the State Board of Administration (with billions still unaccounted for) should have humbled the SBA, it appears that having escaped well-deserved harsh criticism regarding the matter the SBA has been emboldened.
For the moment, the funds are little more than a drop in the overall investment-management pool.
The third benefit to the economy would be to increase the pool of investment capital.
The council said the combination of the investment needed plus a nearby alternative pool lead them to propose the closure.
"CDO" is a common term for collateralized debt obligation, an investment-grade security backed by a pool of bonds, loans and other assets.
On the one-year anniversary of the start up of POSIT Marketplace in the U.S., parent company Investment Technology Group has launched a dark pool under the same name in Asia.
Structured as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), which pool cash to invest in property, they have avoided the sinking feeling that has dominated the REIT sector for the past five years.
The official investment grade reduces borrowing costs and widens the pool of potential investors.
What the president misunderstands is that the corporate profits gained thanks to the efficient utilization of the worldwide labor pool is what attracts the very investment that funds their growth here and around the world.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended solely to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
Scale enables BlackRock to spread costs associated with personnel and technology setup over a larger asset pool and investor base letting it charge a more competitive investment advisory fee while maintaining higher operating margins.
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Without a large tax increase, rising debt due to increased government spending means that government is taking a growing share of a limited pool of savings, meaning less will be available for private investment.
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Weinblatt, the usaa money manager, suggests you ask your broker what the pool's percentage is of primary homes, vacation homes and investment properties.
To minimize the excessive risks of the stock market and keep down investment management costs, we can invest the funds from all the individual retirement accounts as a pool, mirroring the way that the assets of a traditional pension fund are invested.
Banks and investment houses that shed tens of thousands of experienced employees a year ago have jumped back into the job pool.
It said the plan, which the council intends to fund via private investment and national sports funding, would mean that 97% of Manchester residents lived within 20 minutes of a swimming pool.
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