Investment Protection Quotes

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

We must work to establish a 'fiduciary society,' where manager/agents entrusted with managing other people's money are required - by federal statute - to place front and center the interests of the owners they are duty-bound to serve.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.

The only way to manage our economy is to insulate us from currency and stock market speculators—and that is to take the foreign exchange from them.

I was able to use credit default swaps to protect not only my investments but the hundreds of jobs that exist because of my investment. I understand the dangers of credit default swaps and the benefits of credit default swaps.

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

One thing I can't afford to get sucked up in is the trend formation of restaurants here. I've invested heavily. We have a ten-year lease. More importantly, the style, the feel and the décor of the dining room is vibrant.

Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves.

In general the principle of the World Trade Organization … is that sovereignty and democratic rights have to be subordinated to the rights of investors

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

My basic advise is don't lose money

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

A serious and explicit purpose of our foreign policy is the encouragement of a hospitable climate for private investment in foreign nations.

We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.

It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.

It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

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.