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INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR [8 records]

Record 1 2012-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Investment
DEF

A unified managed account that... allows not only for the investing of any form of security by an individual investor, but also... allows any member of the immediate family the same investing access under the same account.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
DEF

... individual buying shares for himself [or herself], as opposed to the institutional investor who buys for others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Personne qui acquiert des valeurs mobilières pour son propre compte, en plaçant des sommes beaucoup moins importantes que les sommes qu'engage un investisseur institutionnel ou un opérateur de marché.

CONT

Les émotions que suscitent la crainte et l'appât du gain causent d'énormes difficultés autant aux épargnants qu'aux investisseurs institutionnels.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bolsa de valores
  • Inversiones
DEF

Inversor que compra en pequeñas cantidades.

OBS

inversor al por menor: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 3 2011-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • National and International Economics
DEF

An individual, an incorporated or unincorporated public or private enterprise, a government, a group of related individuals, or a group of related incorporated enterprises that has a direct investment enterprise(that is, a subsidiary, associate or branch) operating in an economy other than the economy or economies of residence of the foreign direct investor or investors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Économie nationale et internationale
DEF

Personne physique, une entreprise publique ou privée ayant ou non la personnalité morale, un gouvernement, un groupe de personnes physiques ou d’entreprises liées entre elles qui possède une entreprise d’investissement direct [...] opérant dans le pays autre que le ou les pays de résidence de l’investisseur ou des IDE [investissements directs étrangers].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
  • Economía nacional e internacional
DEF

Individuo, empresa privada o pública constituida o no en sociedad, una asociación de particulares o empresas, propietarios de una empresa de IDE [Inversión Directa Extranjera] en una economía diferente a la residencia del inversionista.

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Record 4 2011-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

An investor profile can be defined as a general attitude towards investing. It relates to the types of investments that would best suit an individual based on how they would react to variations in the returns that these would provide. The returns can include both income and capital gains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

La détermination du profil d'investisseur est l'une des étapes les plus importantes de tout le processus d'investissement. Votre profil d'investisseur vous permet de choisir les placements et les stratégies qui vous conviennent.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
CONT

[The] Knowledge Ratio, which [was developed by economist Nuala Beck] calculates the number of knowledge workers as a percentage of total employment in an industry, individual company or organization. [A] Knowledge Ratio... lets an employee or investor know whether a company can sustain its growth.... [Companies] with a higher than average Knowledge Ratio for their industry [have] higher earnings and margins than their competitors.

OBS

Knowledge workers are senior managerial, professional and scientific employees.

Key term(s)
  • knowledge ratio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Finance
CONT

Sector funds invest in the equities of a single sector or industry. With sector funds, the investor chooses the industry and the fund manager picks the stocks. In terms of the risks involved and the time and expertise demanded of investors, sector funds lie between broad-based mutual funds and individual stocks, although closer to the stock end of the spectrum.

Key term(s)
  • sector funds

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

Limits which restrict the ownership of shares by certain purchasers. An example would be limits on the number of shares an individual investor may own.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Bourse
DEF

Dispositions qui restreignent la possibilité de certains acheteurs d'être propriétaires d'actions. À titre d'exemple, on note les restrictions quant au nombre d'actions qu'un investisseur particulier est autorisé à détenir.

Spanish

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Record 8 1995-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

[midland Walywn Inc. ] participated in $12 billion of government debt financing and $15 billion of new issue corporate debt financings last year, with increased market share in both areas. We continued out 1993 focus on developing new proprietary retail debit products aimed at the individual investor marker with the introduction of multi-callable step-up notes in Canada, issued by the Province of British Columbia and the federal Export Development Corporation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

Renseignement fourni par la Société pour l'expansion des exportations.

Spanish

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