If most investors accept this offer, the restructuring occurs successfully.

In short, most investors while not always the most rational species do know a good thing when they see it.

In 2001, 72 of institutional investors and 74 of individual investors chose increase.

The transformation in investors beliefs is striking.

The market lacks institutional investors.

The company was purchased by a group of Hong Kong investors.

By May 2007, only 48 of institutional investors and 59 of individual investors chose increase.

Indeed, the watchword among major investors is inertia.

Governments will also have to facilitate the participation of institutional investors.

Until now, most investors have thought that they would rather risk high inflation for a couple of years than accept even a short and shallow recession.

And it will not reassure consumers or investors.

We cannot make investors less greedy.

Index funds are an example of such powerful investors.

Investors collective psychology is notoriously fragile.

Moreover, the Euro is attractive to portfolio investors.

The national debt held by US and foreign investors totaled about 40 of GDP at the end of 2008.

Most have refused.

Okay, that's the majority.

Most people agree.

The future is inherently uncertain, and therefore investor psychology is fickle.

But then a strange thing happened the investors creature came to life.

As a result, consumer and investor confidence is returning.

The large presence of overseas investors is the cause here. Suppose a New Yorker buys shares in the Mumbai stock market.

The large presence of overseas investors is the cause here.

Indeed, most professional investors trashed the tests as dishonest even as their holdings benefited from a rising market.

Likewise, in markets without many investors, not enough trades can be executed to generate the returns needed to attract them.

These markets have been insulated in part because most investment in real estate backed securities has come from local investors who often need to invest in local currency markets.

In particular, demutualization will allow stock markets greater leeway to merge, acquire each other, or form partnerships, creating a few truly global giants.

The expected one year increase in the Dow in 2005 averages 4.8 for institutional investors and 4.3 for individual investors.

This will help expose foreign investors to listed companies at home and local investors to companies abroad.

How democratic or undemocratic a regime is usually doesn't bother investors.

China's regions learned to specialize by competing fiercely for foreign investors.

The price of farmland hasn t grown so fast as to make investors rich.

Few internet and dot com companies were profitable, but investors never seemed to mind.

For many, this proposal has underscored a change in investors behavior.

Standardization of laws could be intended as a signal to international investors.

David S. Rose on pitching to VCs

And yet investors have reason to be concerned.

There is widespread recognition that rating agencies have let down investors.

In what other country could investors simply be abandoned?

But it matters little for foreign investors.

Algeria should set up an ambitious program to attract foreign investors.

But, over the past several years, a number of sub Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital. Recent global financial turmoil has only added to Africa s allure, because its frontier markets are less vulnerable to international volatility than are most of the world s more familiar emerging economies.

Recent global financial turmoil has only added to Africa s allure, because its frontier markets are less vulnerable to international volatility than are most of the world s more familiar emerging economies.

Berlusconi s Silent Majority