noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
investor confidence (=that investors have when the economic situation is good)
▪ A fall in the value of shares damages investor confidence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attractive
▪ Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.
▪ The only hope of raising this money starts with creating a climate of confidence attractive to foreign investors.
▪ For this reason, renewable energy investment was not yet sufficiently attractive to retail investors.
▪ A cut in interest rates can help stocks by making them more attractive to investors than fixed-income securities.
▪ The approach is attractive to foreign investors.
big
▪ General Electric is Forstmann Little's biggest investor.
▪ Instead of going public, the firm could sell more equity to big investors.
▪ The big investors are taking huge risks in assessing what it will cost to compete successfully.
▪ Such technology recently was the sole domain of analysts, mutual-fund gurus and big investors who could afford such pricey services.
▪ Britain is one of the biggest investors in the United States.
▪ It took big, sophisticated investors to understand it.
▪ A series of meetings are planned to placate big institutional investors.
▪ Even if it did need to raise more capital, it could always sell more equity to big institutional investors.
domestic
▪ Traders said selling by domestic investors knocked prices back from their midday highs.
▪ Secondly, we are thinking of selling a part of state property to domestic investors who have enough capital to do this.
▪ Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors.
▪ Nomura Securities and Morgan Stanley were appointed to co-ordinate a global offering for both domestic and international investors.
foreign
▪ The remaining 70 percent would be held in a state ownership fund for foreign investors.
▪ For foreign investors the question is how the game would unfold.
▪ Will foreign investors be put off and jobs be lost if we stay out?
▪ The approach is attractive to foreign investors.
▪ A stronger dollar increases the appeal of Treasuries to foreign investors.
▪ Where profits are declared, tax relief tends to represent an extra bonus rather than a necessary incentive to foreign investors.
▪ In Kuala Lumpur, prices slipped, partly because most foreign investors were sidelined.
individual
▪ This requirement alone would preclude most individual investors from using such models.
▪ Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
▪ Everyone, it seems, wants individual investors.
▪ The goal is to make the market much fairer for individual investors.
▪ However, in all countries, individual investors also have an important duty of care.
▪ There are other funds, as well, that practice specific strategies that individual investors can not.
▪ Just under 50 percent will be available for the individual investor if demand warrants.
▪ The principle underlying the programs was that these agencies could better assess and charge for credit quality than individual investors.
institutional
▪ These warranties are likely to be given both to the equity institutional investors and to Newco.
▪ The salesmen spoke with institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, and savings and loans.
▪ If institutional investors are involved, the buy-out vehicle could be a limited partnership, to afford the institutions limited liability.
▪ Crisscrossing the country, trying to persuade institutional investors to buy mortgage securities, Ranieri bumped into Milken.
▪ There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios.
▪ Lower rates are good for bonds because many institutional investors fund their bond purchases by borrowing at shorter maturities.
▪ The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.
▪ Eaton said large institutional investors today are putting more pressure on publicly traded companies to increase their returns.
international
▪ Hotels most likely to interest international investors would be those with strong revenue rather than those with development potential.
▪ From wealthy countries, as well as from international investors who are willing to lend the World Bank funds.
▪ The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors.
▪ Most governments, international agencies, investors and lenders will require a detailed feasibility study before deciding to participate.
▪ Nomura Securities and Morgan Stanley were appointed to co-ordinate a global offering for both domestic and international investors.
large
▪ Merrill is the largest investor in high-yield bonds in the world.
▪ Only a small handful of large investors spoke at the meeting, which was dominated by Conrail employees.
▪ Other approved lenders include many of the large institutional investors.
▪ By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.
▪ Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters.
▪ It protects lenders and large mortgage investors if the borrower defaults on the mortgage.
▪ He felt that property often required a unit too large for all but the largest institutional investor.
▪ He meets with company executives, attends trade shows, and talks with large investors such as pension funds.
new
▪ Many societies launch a new-style account and advertise it heavily to pull in thousands of new investors.
▪ By the time it was eventually closed in 1988, new investors had brought the total to £116 million.
▪ To attract new investors and to dodge new regulations, the market became ever more arcane and complex.
▪ Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf, would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company?
▪ Paramount has been closed to new investors for most of the past decade.
overseas
▪ Meanwhile an intense marketing campaign will continue to interest overseas investors in the 18.5 percent of the issue earmarked for sale abroad.
▪ There were reports of strong demand from institutional fund managers and private clients, together with interest from overseas investors.
▪ If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors.
▪ In Wellington, stocks fell, though losses were restrained by buying by overseas investors in the forestry sector.
potential
▪ The House of Lords found that there was no duty of care either to existing shareholders or to potential investors.
▪ Paine Webber brokers often used scripts when they spoke to potential investors.
▪ Roll and Ross argue that these portfolios may have desirable qualities for the potential investor.
▪ That document, Matthews said, will be sent out to a few dozen potential investors by the end of the year.
▪ He cultivated members of the aristocracy and sprinkled them among his company boards to impress potential investors.
▪ But its financial difficulties have deterred potential investors.
▪ The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology, he said.
▪ And how much more attractive the area might then be to potential investor industrialists who appreciate the value of air travel?
private
▪ At the private investor level, the use of offshore centres is almost limitless.
▪ In addition to the inherited Banrural loans still to be repaid, new debt was encouraged by the state and private investors.
▪ Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.
▪ She started Space with the help of private investors, former co-workers and a bank credit line.
▪ By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors.
▪ Furthermore, private investors can not trade shares on terms even approaching those available to fund managers.
▪ There is tremendous scope for MBOs to create value, both for parent companies and private equity investors.
▪ The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors.
small
▪ As this slide goes on, small investors get nervous.
▪ Yet the tape is clearly geared to stirring up small investors to use options.
▪ But one main purpose, protecting the small investor, barely arises with debt securities.
▪ The trend could prove helpful to small investors, especially if the competition helps reduce annual fund expenses.
▪ This is partly because changes in institutional stockholding can make markets highly volatile and therefore risky for smaller investors.
▪ Iomega is a dramatic example of how small investors can work together.
▪ If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches, there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice.
▪ Letters poured into the Denver fund group thanking it for giving smaller investors a break.
■ NOUN
confidence
▪ It will take the dotcoms some time before they regain investor confidence.
protection
▪ The framework for investor protection is shown in Figure 12.3, and outlines the channels of authority. 12.3 OVER-REGULATION?
▪ This means that complete market surveillance is possible and better investor protection is thus also possible.
▪ The deregulation of the capital market brought with it the need for increased investor protection.
▪ The White Paper argued that the existing investor protection laws were outdated and incomplete.
▪ Effective supervision of securities firms of their employees and agents is a foundation of the federal regulatory scheme of investor protection.
▪ These seek to enhance investor protection and promote the integrity of the securities, futures and options markets.
▪ It was the first major and comprehensive revision of investor protection legislation since the mid-1930's.
▪ You might also like to read the section on investor protection at the end of Chapter 5.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Stakeholders will also be much more flexible as they allow investors to stop and start contributions at any time without penalty.
▪ This would allow investors to factor out inflation before calculating how much money they made on the sale of a particular asset.
▪ Over the long term equities generate much higher returns than bonds, and allow investors to spread risk by diversifying their assets.
attract
▪ Note that eurobonds are unlikely to attract tax exempt investors such as pension funds, given the lower yield associated with bearer status.
▪ Their steady, reliable earnings growth attracts investors primarily when the economy is growing slowly or not at all.
▪ I was aware that building societies are in the habit of launching new products from time to time, primarily to attract new investors.
▪ To attract new investors and to dodge new regulations, the market became ever more arcane and complex.
▪ Acres of empty office space should attract investors.
▪ Also, utility stocks with their ample dividend yields tend to attract investor attention when rates are low elsewhere.
▪ Set up to provide money for growing companies, the stockmarket failed to attract investors.
▪ Persistent talk of takeovers attracted investors into the banking industry in the last year.
buy
▪ In Kuala Lumpur, shares scored a 2. 7 % advance, led by heavy buying by institutional investors.
▪ In Wellington, stocks fell, though losses were restrained by buying by overseas investors in the forestry sector.
expect
▪ A rising yield curve is explained by investors expecting future short-term interest rates to rise, i.e..
▪ The results encouraged investors expecting earnings disappointments because of a slowing economy.
▪ A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future.
▪ The move came just days before the Alameda-based networking company told investors it expected slowing sales for the next few quarters.
▪ However, as this is a riskless hedge the investor should expect to receive the riskless rate of return.
▪ In times of very high interest rates, investors expect to see future short-term rates declining.
offer
▪ The rights issue is being offered to investors on the basis of two new shares at 12p each for every five held.
▪ Most stakeholder pensions will only offer investors a limited choice of mainstream funds, such as index trackers.
▪ The government may soon offer investors some fiscal carrots to do so.
▪ Index-linked gilts offer investors coupons and redemption values in real terms.
▪ They offer investors federal tax credits -- and, in some cases, matching provincial credits.
▪ Subic would seem to offer foreign investors a lot.
pay
▪ They pay a fixed income each year and promise to pay investors a set sum on a set date in the future.
▪ Traders say the bond will likely pay investors a coupon rate of 1. 3 percent or 1. 4 percent.
▪ L-P previously paid more attention to investors than it did to customers, employees and the environmental community, he added.
▪ If money is invested, then interest is paid to the investor.
▪ Although put bonds allow a company to pay investors lower interest rates, they can become a problem when they come due.
▪ A pyramid scheme creates the illusion of financial success by paying off early investors with funds provided by later investors.
sell
▪ Traders said selling by domestic investors knocked prices back from their midday highs.
▪ By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Foreign investors have shown considerable interest in the venture.
▪ Having made the initial payment, the investor need make no further effort.
▪ Most of the venture funds have come from foreign investors.
▪ Our financial consultants can advise the small investor.
▪ The British Gas sale attracted 4.5 million applications from small investors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even that market has suffered an attack of investor nerves.
▪ But few really think like investors.
▪ In the first few days of trading this year, nervous investors have already punished high-technology companies that have reported disappointing earnings.
▪ It is a disequilibrium situation which can not survive as it offers investors a profitable arbitrage opportunity.
▪ More recently, he managed private partnerships for institutional investors, along with Breazzano.
▪ That refund policy takes effect for investors as of Feb. 29, it said.
▪ The approach is attractive to foreign investors.