Charles L. Evans Quotes

If the country is to flourish, capital must be invested in enterprise. But those who seek to draw upon other people's money must be wholly candid regarding the facts on which the investor's judgment is asked.

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

Peer-to-peer lenders originally sought to attract retail investors to its loan marketplace, but the lack of high-returning assets elsewhere in the market has made these platforms increasingly attractive to major asset managers and hedge funds.

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

I might make an investment and lose some money, but that's something I can recover from.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.