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The Official Gust Guide to Angel Investing will be the first complete, up to date, guide to the subject, including what angel investing is, how one gets started, how to find deal flow, evaluate opportunities, negotiate terms, join an angel group, structure investments, work with venture capital funds, and, of course, use the Gust platform to do all of the above. The initial target audience is the 7,000,000+ plus people in the US who qualify as ""accredited investors"", because they have incomes over 200K or assets of over 1m. These are the people who are legally allowed to in

Angels (Investors) --- Investments. --- Venture capital. --- New business enterprises.

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In 1960, Montreal stock broker John Dobson launched an informal investment club with a close group of friends and associates, including future prime minister John Turner. His Formula Growth Fund would go on to become one of North America's most successful investment funds, consistently outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial Average and attracting the likes of legendary investor Sir John Templeton. With a foreword by the Right Honourable David Johnston, Up and to the Right tells the story behind John Dobson's investment success as well as his many contributions to entrepreneurial education. Craig Toomey provides valuable insight into his unconventional but disciplined investment approach, his uncanny ability to predict winning stocks, and his unwavering faith in the market despite its many ups and downs. Based on interviews with Dobson as well as with dozens of members of his extensive network of friends, colleagues, and investment professionals, Up and to the Right is a fascinating story about a great Canadian who believed deeply in self-reliance and free enterprise as well as the value of friendship, pursuing one’s passions, and working for the greater good.

Capitalists and financiers --- Philanthropists --- Altruists --- Humanitarians --- Benefactors --- Financiers --- Investors --- Businesspeople --- Dobson, John. --- Dobson, John W. --- Formula Growth Limited --- FG --- Formula Growth Fund --- E-books --- Formula Growth Limited.

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Developing countries are trying to develop long-term financial markets and institutional investors are expected to play a key role. This paper uses unique evidence on the universe of institutional investors from the leading case of Chile to study to what extent mutual funds, pension funds, and insurance companies hold and bid for long-term instruments, and which factors affect their choices. The paper uses monthly asset-level portfolios to show that, despite the expectations, mutual and pension funds invest mostly in short-term assets relative to insurance companies. The significant difference across maturity structures is not driven by the supply side of debt or tactical behavior. Instead, it seems to be explained by manager incentives (related to short-run monitoring and the liability structure) that, combined with risk factors, tilt portfolios toward short-term instruments, even when long-term investing yields higher returns. Thus, the expansion of large institutional investors does not necessarily imply longer-term markets.

Capital Markets --- Debt Markets --- Debt Maturity --- Deposit Insurance --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Institutional Investors --- Insurance Industry --- Long-Term Finance --- Maturity Structure --- Mutual Funds --- Non Bank Financial Institutions --- Pension Funds --- Private Sector Development

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The link between infrastructure and economic growth is widely acknowledged-as is the infrastructure gap, which can act as a break on growth in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Since the global economic and financial crisis, the challenges of raising financing for infrastructure projects in EMDEs are also well known. The challenges come from stretched government finances and restrictions on global bank lending. Hence much attention has been focused on the potential for institutional investors as a growing potential source of financing. This paper argues that infrastructure projects can potentially deliver long-term returns, but investments, particularly in EMDEs need to be carefully structured to meet the needs of both sides. The paper first considers the existing types of institutional investors and their potential for filling the infrastructure financing gap. The challenges of adjusting asset allocations, particularly toward EMDE infrastructure, are discussed and examples of projects where institutional investors have been involved are given. Finally, the paper considers a range of models for the involvement of institutional investors in EMDEs and makes initial proposals for how to determine which model fits best in a particular country context.

Banks and Banking Reform --- Debt Markets --- Emerging Markets --- Emerging-Markets and Developing Economies --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Infrastructure --- Institutional Investors --- Insurance Companies --- Mutual Funds --- Non Bank Financial Institutions --- Pension Funds --- Private Sector Development --- Social Security Funds

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This Selected Issues paper reviews business investment patterns in France during the crisis. The main motivation is to explore whether investment has recently evolved in line with established determinants or displayed somewhat unconventional dynamics. This paper addresses three distinct questions. First, has recent investment behavior essentially been consistent with past trends or is there any discernible structural break as a result of the crisis. Second, what drove the contraction in investment during the crisis. Third, what is the investment outlook and can a swift and strong rebound going forward be expected. The paper presents main results and the outlook for investment.

Investments, Foreign --- France --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Exports and Imports --- Investments: General --- Investments: Stocks --- Macroeconomics --- Production and Operations Management --- Trade: General --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- Macroeconomics: Production --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- General Aggregative Models: General --- International economics --- Investment & securities --- Exports --- Private investment --- Export performance --- Imports --- Capacity utilization --- International trade --- National accounts --- Production --- Saving and investment --- Industrial capacity --- Stocks