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Women Leaders = Greater Returns On Investment

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

40 years ago, it would have been rare to find women running, much less owning their own businesses in Australia.  In fact, if we look at my career choice, to be a Trade Commissioner for Australia, it would actually have been impossible!
 
Fortunately times have changed, at least in Australia with women currently running about 1/3rd of Australia’s 1.9 million small businesses, and almost 50% of the home-based businesses (which is also one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy). And again, if we look at my career choice in the public service, women hold around 36% of senior executive positions.
 
But we still have much to do when compared to some other countries like Norway, USA and the UK . In the US surveys show that 89% of companies on the S&P 500 have at least 1 woman on the board and 64% have more than one. In the UK the figures are closer to 77% of FTSE 100 companies having at least 1 woman.
 
Yet similar figures for Australia show only about 29% of boards have at least one female (top 500 companies). And worse, for our top 200 listed companies women represent 8% of Board members, 6% of CEO’s and only 2% of Chairpersons.
 
This despite the fact that surveys abound that show a businesses financial performance is usually greater with female management, than without.  Specifically, a Catalyst report used by Barclay’s shows that companies with the highest female representation on their senior management teams enjoyed a 34% higher return on equity than those with the lowest representation.
 
34% higher return on investment
 
There is no better business case for us to encourage more women into business.
 
But we are often our own worst enemies. Surveys, prior to the global financial crisis, from people like the Women’s Enterprise Task Force in the UK noted that women frequently cite a lack of confidence as reasons for lower risk appetites, lower debt and slower, more consultative decision-making processes.

Well in the post GFC period, lower risk profiles, more collaborative working styles and lower debt all seem like strengths to me, not weaknesses.
 
Yet that lack of confidence thing is something only we, ourselves can address. It holds us back and holds back our economic future. We need to be aware of it and how it translates on our ability to do business. I recently read a quote by Dr Rebecca Harding of the London School of Economics where she said: “Women cannot always sell their business ideas well to male investors. Women have a lower expectation of how their business is going to grow, even when they are very high powered. Women are far more risk aware, frightened that things will go wrong and frightened of flying too close to the sun”.
 
I don’t know if that ever rings true for you, but for me, in the times when I doubt myself  I try to remember the fact that I can make a difference – at least a 34% difference.

 

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The Basic Online Share Trading Experience

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

People no longer sit on their money or let it earn minimal interest in the bank. They now want their money to multiply faster to prepare for the future. This preparation may include just adding to your existing savings for a rainy day, or saving for your children’s education or a yearly holiday, but growing wealth is everyone’s inevitable goal. Long term investments serve as a good remedy against unforeseen eventualities. We are now in a far better place to use various online trading services and mechanisms, with the help of the Internet, to increase and consolidate these long term investments. Share trading has always been a favourite of the ardent long term investor simply because the potential to earn quick and sizeable profits is a distinct possibility. This advantage overshadows the equally inevitable possibility of making sizeable losses.

The Internet, and ever evolving technological advancement in the financial world, has given us all the tools we need for our online trading needs. Online share trading allows you to buy shares, sell shares and track the position of shares on a daily basis. It has grown in status to become the most basic choice for any investor. The ease and swiftness with which shares are bought and sold encourages us all to put our money in a position to “work for us”. Armed with a Online demat account, a pre-requisite to start trading online, investors will most often use a broker to help provide investing advice and actually perform buying and selling activities at their request. Brokers, or financial advisors, as many prefer to be called, are provided by broking houses. Most banks also have their own broking agencies providing a gamut of services for share trading activities. A few of these are Kotak Securities, ICICI Direct, HDFC securities etc. Most brokerage firms require you to maintain a minimum balance in your demat account to perform online trading. These broking firms will charge you a fee, depending on the frequency with which you want to perform share trading activities. For example, if you require your broker to monitor online share trading on a daily basis you will probably have to pay a far heftier brokerage, compared to someone who monitors share more infrequently.

The benefit of online trading is clearly that shares can be bought and sold in an instant, as soon as the request to buy or sell is put forth is the transaction executed. Needless to say, this is a of great advantage as it helps you always purchase and sell at the price you actually want to so you can maximise your profits or minimise your losses when you sell or get shares at the most acceptable price when you buy. Even though online trading comes with its fair share of risks the desire to gain from an investment gives us enough of an initiative to enter the world of online share trading.

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Kids Buy Stock: But They Need Help

February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I love it when kids buy stock. It shows a lot of the kind of person he or she is going to turn out to be in the near future. A business person ready to encounter the real world and not afraid to do so by himself or herself. The kind of person that will become a leader in a globalized world; someone very important in circles of society and that people turn to for advice. Because it is them that get the experience of how to manage everything they set their minds to.

Even so, I think a good place for kids to buy stocks to start is through penny stocks. As I’ve said in many other articles I’ve wrote, penny stocks are extremely beneficial in the short and many time in the long term. Even if it weren’t so, I would still encourage people that want to start investing in the stock market, especially kids, to start with penny stock picks because of the great educational advantage it brings with the experience.

Difficult but not Impossible.

For kids though, it may be difficult at first investing in penny stocks. The company research phase of investing can be tough for kids because it encompasses areas that need great understating of economics, both macro and micro. However, with enough practice and advice in time they will develop a keen sense for detecting which companies are a good choice to invest in.

But they can’t do this by themselves. They need the help and support of their parents as well as financial aid! If you’re a parent reading this, it is here where you can help your children become someone important in the future. You can help with the stock research phase and give important stock advice. If you’re a kid reading this, go ask help from your parents, and make them understand how important it is for you to have support in this.

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Financial, real and intellectual interconnection of main investment types

February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ways of turning cash means into investments. Sources belonged to he investments in the objects of industrial and nonindustrial spheres, mostly come out in the initial form of cash means. Turning of these latest into the investments may be provided in different ways. The easiest way takes place in the case, when industrial subject manages and owns definite means, uses them for widening and improvement of production and also for creation of nonindustrial objects. In the resembling type savings of those persons, which start activities with own savings turn into investments.

Though, in other cases turning savings into investments is a difficult process. The fact is, that most part of the population has no opportunity to provide investments straight into the production, because for this they must have manners of enterprise administration, and of course, own definite minimal amount for this or those reasons. Part of the enterprise profit also does not turn into the investments.

Herewith, form one side, population and some enterprises own free cash sources, from another, many enterprises need additional means for their investment program realization. Transmission of sources is realized by the channels of financial market, where owners of cash means appear to be the distributors of investment capital, and those persons, who influx sources – consumers.

Basic channels for transmission of cash means from distributors to consumers. Depending on how transmission of cash means is realized from distributor to the consumers, we can point out two basic channels at the financial market. First is the market of banking credits. Banks accumulate temporarily free cash means of the juridical and physical persons. Of course, they pay definite percents at the influxed sources and later give credits to the borrowers (to those ones, who provide real investments) for high percent. Thus, process of money movement from the owner, to the borrower is realized with the help of a bank.

In many cases such way of transmission of the cash means answers to the interests of the cash owner. Though this latest takes too little percent from the bank, but thus he/she avoids the risk of not returning of money from the borrower. Except security, banking deposits are high liquidate, as the depositor can take own amount out and also investment of cash means is reachable even for the smallest depositors (owners of the savings).

Bank pays very little percent to the depositors comparing with those it takes from the borrowers, that’s why it is natural, that the distributor has a desire to invest capital exactly into the relation with these borrowers.

As to the capital consumers (borrowers), it is advantage for them to get in direct touch with distributors. The fact is that getting banking credit is often followed by great difficulties. For example, often the bank doesn’t lend credit in the term, which is needed by the borrower; the bank may not have total amount requested by the borrower, for realization of the large-scale projects and so on. All these lead us to the large-scaled realization of attracting free cash sources together with the banking credit by capital consumers in other way – by emission of securities.

Somehow this way answers the interests of distributor of investment resources and their consumers. Distributors of resources (owners of savings) often are able to invest their sources in relatively advantage conditions, then banking deposits are and for longer period of time. Quite simple procedure of placement of sources is realized in the way of selling and purchasing of securities. Also, if securities are characterized by quite high level of liquidity, then the investor can invest wasted sources by selling own securities if necessary.

From the point of investment resources consumers’ view emission of securities has priority relatively to the banking credits. Hey (capital consumers) are given opportunity to influx cash sources from a lot of distributors of capital and accumulate large amount of money. Also, sources may be influxed for long period of time, sometimes for indefinite terms, if the affair touches upon securities.

Thus, market of banking credits and market of securities in the modern conditions appear to be necessary rings for investment processes, basic areas, with the help of which savings are turned into investments and are used for development of the production.

As said above, depending at objects of capital investments they separate real, financial and intellectual investments (drought 5.7.). Under real investments they mean placement of sources (capital) into creation of real assets (as of material, so immaterial ones), which are in touch with the realization of operative activities of economical subjects, salvation of their social-economical problems. Under financial investments they mean placement of capital into different financial instruments, in the first place into the securities.

Financial investments either have speculative character, or are oriented towards long-termed investments. They recognize to be the form of financial investment placements of sources into shares and securities, also into the loan banking deposits.

Financial investment oriented towards long-termed placements of sources is related with strategic goals of participation in the management of the investor’s object, in which the capital is invested.

Fictive capital. Concepts of real and financial investments are in close touch with the ones of real and fictive capital. In the economical literature they usually mean securities under fictive capital. Real capital is placed into production and securities serve for the title of property, which represent this capital. Financial capital is “the capital which exists in the face of securities, bring profit to the owners. Different from real capital, which is placed into various fields of the industry, fictive one has no inner value and is not considered to be real wealth, that’s why it has no function in the process of capitalist further production.and, according to this, we want to pay attention to the following: for every separate owner securities (fictive capital) represent valuable, which brings to him absolutely real income. Though, from the point social capital securities don’t represent real prosperity. Growth or reduction of the value of functioning securities in the society may take place independently from real capital. According to this, securities appear to be a fictive capital.

Real capital of the society is grown at the expense of investments into the real assets, while fictive capital may be increased without financial investments, at the expense of course value of the securities emitted earlier. A significant example of the process of fictive capital growth is process of emission of the so-called produced securities. Here they don’s take into account real investments, but they give rights for purchasing securities already produced or emitted earlier. In this case financial investments are followed by the growth of real capital of the society.

Though, to our mind, this subject is not so easy, as it seems. The fact is that growth of the share course is realized not itself, but by the fact that the effectiveness of using real capital is growing.  The growth of course value of the enterprise shares expresses the fact, that the market gives too high estimation of the given enterprise.

Herewith, we can make a conclusion, that fictive capital is not a real wealth; it provides marketing estimation of real capital of the society in every given period of time. Imagine that we have two enterprises with absolutely identical real assets, though one enterprise uses these assets better and works more effectively. It is evident, that course value of the shares of this enterprise is higher, then those of other ones. That’s why fictive capital is being grown not itself, but expresses the position of real capital. Size of fictive capital is nothing but the marketing value of the real capital, the title of which is fictive capital considered to be.

Herewith it is difficult to agree with, that “fictive capital acts no function in the process of capital further production”. Securities (a fictive capital) play important role in the process of further production while turning of the savings into investments. A fictive capital (securities) makes income for its owners. Exactly the desire of making profit makes the owners of the savings to invest sources into securities. Amounts gathered by the issuerare used for creation and purchasing of the real assets, accordingly the growth of the volume of production takes place.

Movement of financial investments reminds us the movement of loan capital. As K. Marx showed us, in the process of movement of loan capital one and the same capital amount appears in the degree of capital-owner and capital-function. Income of the functional capitalist is divided into two parts – into the loan percent and the income of the clerk. Under the conditions of weak development of the joint-stock company free capital was put into the production in the form of loan capital. Real investments in the production are realized at the expense of own and loan capital from the functioning capitalists.

By realization of the joint-stock form of the enterprise the character of the investment process is essentially changed. In this case, they mean the joint-stock company may realize real investments at the expense of own sources (indivisible profit) or at the expense of banking credits. So, that they don’t apply for the financial investments.

Though, it is different in the case of joint-stock company. While foundation of the joint-stock company the founders are enter property, cash means, and intellectual property into the initial capital. Every deposit is estimated in the cash form and every founder purchases a definite package of shares for appropriate share, which is entered into the initial capital of the society. Amount of one and the same investments turns into real or financial investments. the process of real capital growth is followed by the growth of fictive capital. Herewith, in this case real investments can not be realized without share emission, i.e. without financial investments.

In the case of growing initial capital of the joint-stock company emission of new shares is taking place, then it is followed by real investments. Thus, financial investments are considered to be necessary attributes for the investment process. Real investments are impossible without financial ones. Real investments take completed face by realization of financial investments.

Widening of the production may be realized, also by the borrowed sources, which are influxed with the help of emission of the loan securities. Consequently, even in this case the process of real investments is realized with the help of financial investments.

We have different situation, when we apply for secondary market of the securities. If the investors purchase shares for already activated enterprise, then sources wasted for purchasing shares already are investments. But these sources get to the previous owner of the shares that’s why growth of the real capital of the enterprise doesn’t take place. It is same with the purchasing of securities of any kind at the secondary market. In this case (if the course of securities are not grown) the growth of fictive capital of the society doesn’t take place. Only the distribution of fictive capital among the members of society takes place. Thus, financial investments, which are realized in the forms of purchasing securities at the secondary market, are considered to be relatively independent form and it is not directly related with the process of real investments.

According to the said above, we can make the following conclusion: financial investment is the connecting ring of turning of the savings into real investments. With its help the savings get into the production; at the same time they can appear to be relatively independent form of the investments. Foreseeing the fact, that today joint-stock company is considered to be quite spread, organization-legislative form of the enterprise; we may come to conclusion, that financial investments and security market play very important role in the investment process on the way of turning savings into real investments.

Intellectual investment definition. Investment market is a difficult system consisted of various structural elements, among which there is a numerous connection. Scheme (in the drought 5.8.) represents a clear example about structure of the world investment market.

As seen from the matter, investment objects are divided into financial and material (real) assets. Each of them has quite diversified structure.

Financial assets concern financial and payment obligations of every kind, which are basically created by the economical agents while their work. This is cash money; deposits existed at the current accounts, short-termed loan obligations, for example, shares and other financial documentation, which prove the property of right at the capital or setting arrangement at the movement of financial resources.

Material assets are: movable and unmovable property, lend, buildings, precious metals, commodities of long-termed usage, material valuables or inventory having short-terms of produced service and so on.

Modern structure of investment, in the first place, expresses significant surplus of the financial assets at material ones (accordingly 57.7% and 42.3%), ant second, in the structure of financial assets itself securities, short-termed obligations and accounts having investment character occupy more and more bigger place.

Correlation of financial and material assets of the investment market may be expressed by the coefficient of financial interrelation. Idea of involving such coefficient belongs to R. Goldsmith, who is the author of the works written about the structure of national wealth and financial systems of developed countries. This scientist in the second part of 50s and beginning of 60s worked out the method of calculation of the coefficient of interrelation. He calculated this coefficient as conformity of total financial assets with the size of material assets received by deducing of the country net foreign assets. Net foreign assets show conformity of foreign debt of the given country and its residents with the one, which are owned by the foreign country and its residents towards this county. Citizens, companies and other juridical persons have right to have accounts abroad, to give credits to the foreign citizens and to have property abroad. Also, they are possible to get in debts themselves towards the foreign citizens. If the size of foreign property and financial wealth of the country resident surpluses debts towards the foreigners, then net foreign assets appear to be positive size and on the contrary.

According to the investment nature, which basic kinds of the investment market – financial and material ones, or the real investment markets in the modern conditions may be added by the market of intellectual investments. This latest functions in the way of licenses, engineering-consulting service, Now-how, scientific processing, sales and purchasing of projects and others.

As in the marketing economics, so at the transmitting stage, alternative variants of using resources, investment resources among them. The principle of inter changing touch upon the realized investments as in the material forms, so in the human capital. It is well known that under the modern conditions investment in the human capital is very important and gives a large profit. This is stated in many economical works.K. Sax and F. Lauren point to the investments into the human capital. They notice that investments into the human capital have a great importance for marketing economics.Nowadays a theory of intellectual capital makes foundation to the realization of investments into the human capital.The authors of this theory concern, that intellectual capital is a difficult category. It is wider than the human capital, as in it information is considered to be the independent industrial resource.Investments into the intellectual capital differ from the ones realized into the human capital. It also concerns the elements of structural capital, which means investments realized into the furniture, computers, programs, patents and trade marks. On the basis of intellectual capital theory a concept of social partnership was formed. This conception leans upon the investments placed into the social capital. Social capital theory means relations of mutual help and development of trust relation in the separate groups or readiness of participation in the unions. More educated and qualified workers have more possibilities for formation of social capital and economical macro-system. On the basis of investments realized subjective leaders of attractive investment surrounding is formed in the social capital, that influence significantly upon the development of intellectual investment market.

Intellectual investment market has the following peculiarities:

First, intellectual investment market is the consisting part of service market. It provides realization of specific commodity by straight contracts between producers and consumers. Herewith, trade mediating is not the exception. Though there is a principle distinction between mediating and consuming commodities at the market of intellectual investments. Analyzes of different researches show, that in the conditions of transitional period growth of the share of mediator structures in the section of consuming commodity of massive request take place in Georgia. The mediator is not requested to have a special knowledge, only initial information is enough. Of course, mediating at the market of intellectual investments requires high qualification level of the firms’ specialists. The mediators themselves, which unite “producer-consumers”, are not many. Herewith, mediator service at the market of intellectual investments is different form analogue service of the market of massive request commodities in the equal conditions by quality and effectiveness (at the expense of reducing expenses of the interested sides).

Second, the market of intellectual investment influences greatly upon capital movement and the market of labor forces.

Third, intellectual investments are protected by the state from the foreign competition, also by export and import of final result of using intellectual investments. Functioning of the market of intellectual investments cannot exist without protection of rights at the objects of intellectual property.

Fourth, for entering international market by inner market organizations and intellectual investments additional are not needed.

Fifth, formation of market values is specific at the results of using intellectual investments.

Values of intellectual investment products have not direct connection with the work spent on it. The value of intellectual investment product is defined by what it gives by using in the production process. Herewith, value of intellectual investment process is defined as expression of effect received by this product usage by money.

Market value at the intellectual investment product is formed as agreement one, by using two prices (of seller and purchaser). The purchaser may apply for the fact that a profit received from using intellectual investment product, minimally, is to compensate the expenses made by the seller for selling this product and also expanses of the buyer for its realization. The seller doesn’t often sell the intellectual investment product, but transmits only the right for its using. Thus, agreement value on this production is close to the buyers’ one in practice.

Realization of intellectual investments at the market may be provided in the following forms:

-      by transmitting rights for using licenses, Now-How, commodity sighs and so on;

-      by selling-transmission of Now-How, technological experiences and so on. Agreements on such acts of sell and purchase from license agreements are different by the fact, that the owner of Now-How doesn’t refuse its selling, but doesn’t agree with its patenting;

-      by providing engineering services;

-      by transmission of technologies, in the way investment partnership, within the bounds of which takes place not only sell and purchase, but in other ways of its distribution consultations, qualifying specialists, transmission of droughts and technological exchanges.

Engineering is one of the basic forms of realization are the market of intellectual investments. It means providing different engineering-consulting service on the commercial basis. They divide engineering service into two groups: 1) service related with preparing production process; 2) service related with provision of normal continuing of the process of production and its realization. To the first group belong: a) pre-projecting service (social-economical researches; topographic processing and planning of location; researching grounds; searching for the minerals; technical-economical statement of project and so on); b) projecting service (preparing general plan and recommendations; estimation of expenses made on its exploitation beforehand; preparing technical specialists and so on); c) further service of he project (preparing contracting documentation; organization of auction; estimation of suggestions; making contracts; managing building process; making and granting certificates about finishing work, making technical conclusion about building and so on); d) special service (researching about utilization, various juridical procedures and so on). To the second group of engineering service belong: service related with the managing and organization of the production process, service related with the examination of the object; consultations in the financial questions; service related with the production realization (researching the conjuncture of the market, advertisement organization), service related with the involving the system of informational provision and so on. Engineering consultations, in the conditions of deficit of high-qualified personnel, can provide intellectually the investment process, help firms to rise effectiveness, fasten circulation of the investment resources.

Portfolio investment market is the consisting part of the financial investment market. By forming society of share-holders and with the help of financial institutional investors, their activity at the financial investment market support significantly accumulation of independent cash sources in the country, also attracting of foreign investors, fastened circulation of financial investments, effective insurance for financial-investment risks and so on.

For clearing investment motivations up and defining levers is state influence we thing advisable discussion of peculiarities of the investment circulation in the process of further production of material (basic and turnover) and financial capitals.

Investment circulation in the process of investment activity is realized in the following basic directions:

investments in the material assets (production of basic and turnover capital); investments in financial assets; investments in the intellectual valuables.

Let’s discuss investment circulation in the process of further production of the material assets (basic and turnover capitals). Its every element may be divided into movable and immovable properties. Furniture, mechanisms, turnover capital belongs to the elements of movable physical capital and elements of passive part of basic capital (buildings, equipment, industrial infrastructure) – to the unmovable one.

Further production of the movable physical capital is realized in the industry, and of unmovable ones – in the building. Investment activity may be realized in the way of showing of unmovable property, furniture and other elements of physical capital at the market, or in the case of absence of needed commodity, in the way of their production (building).

Investment activity may be realized at the expense of different sources: own, borrowed, attracted sources for investments, budgetary assignations. Structure of sources depends at organization legislative forms of active and newly formed enterprise. Investments may be displayed as in the cash, material forms so in the face of property rights and intellectual potential. Foreseeing said above, investment circulation in the further production of a physical capital might be represented in the following way:

Economical essence of the given chain of transformation exists in the following: investments in different for (cash, productive, commodity) are placed into the objects of investment requests for industrial activity. After this a process of transformation of investments into industrial factors takes place. Thus materialization of investments takes place, which appears in the face of rising value of investor’s capital property.

Exactly the new transformation of capital value finishes investment circulation in the Soviet economical literature. They departed artificially stage of formation of new capital value and stage of their functioning, which defines real level of income of profitableness of these valuables, and finally the period of self-compensation of investments.

As main goal of investment are making profit, investment circulation definitely concerns a period of exploitation of purchased capital valuables till the moment of financial recourses, by which investments in the capital production are compensated.

In this case, production, which is produced in the form of investment commodity, is realized at the markets of different investments (real estate, furniture, materials and other markets).

What is the distinction between investments and investment commodity, as they coincide with each other in the material form and ability of making income? To our mind, basic distinction is in the “universality” degree of investments and investment commodity. Any investment commodity for realization at the markets in the future becomes a factor of production in concrete material or cash forms. Material transformation of a capital doesn’t mean further production, it may be even threadbare – morally and physically, and investments, as they are movable form of cash capital – may make endless and permanent profit. To our mind, this makes investments different from the investment commodity.

Investments into the financial assets take place in relation with their profitableness norms. Income, according to the different financial assets, is divided into dividends (kind of industrial income) and percents. This is defined by what capital they represent – industrial or loan.

A process of investments into the financial assets may be represented in the following way:

First, intellectual investment market is the consisting part of service market. It provides realization of specific commodity by straight contracts between producers and consumers. Herewith, trade mediating is not the exception. Though there is a principle distinction between mediating and consuming commodities at the market of intellectual investments. Analyzes of different researches show, that in the conditions of transitional period growth of the share of mediator structures in the section of consuming commodity of massive request take place in Georgia. The mediator is not requested to have a special knowledge, only initial information is enough. Of course, mediating at the market of intellectual investments requires high qualification level of the firms’ specialists. The mediators themselves, which unite “producer-consumers”, are not many. Herewith, mediator service at the market of intellectual investments is different form analogue service of the market of massive request commodities in the equal conditions by quality and effectiveness (at the expense of reducing expenses of the interested sides).

Second, the market of intellectual investment influences greatly upon capital movement and the market of labor forces.

Third, intellectual investments are protected by the state from the foreign competition, also by export and import of final result of using intellectual investments. Functioning of the market of intellectual investments cannot exist without protection of rights at the objects of intellectual property.

Fourth, for entering international market by inner market organizations and intellectual investments additional are not needed.

Fifth, formation of market values is specific at the results of using intellectual investments.

Values of intellectual investment products have not direct connection with the work spent on it. The value of intellectual investment product is defined by what it gives by using in the production process. Herewith, value of intellectual investment process is defined as expression of effect received by this product usage by money.

Market value at the intellectual investment product is formed as agreement one, by using two prices (of seller and purchaser). The purchaser may apply for the fact that a profit received from using intellectual investment product, minimally, is to compensate the expenses made by the seller for selling this product and also expanses of the buyer for its realization. The seller doesn’t often sell the intellectual investment product, but transmits only the right for its using. Thus, agreement value on this production is close to the buyers’ one in practice.

Realization of intellectual investments at the market may be provided in the following forms:

-      by transmitting rights for using licenses, Now-How, commodity sighs and so on;

-      by selling-transmission of Now-How, technological experiences and so on. Agreements on such acts of sell and purchase from license agreements are different by the fact, that the owner of Now-How doesn’t refuse its selling, but doesn’t agree with its patenting;

-      by providing engineering services;

-      by transmission of technologies, in the way investment partnership, within the bounds of which takes place not only sell and purchase, but in other ways of its distribution consultations, qualifying specialists, transmission of droughts and technological exchanges.

Engineering is one of the basic forms of realization are the market of intellectual investments. It means providing different engineering-consulting service on the commercial basis. They divide engineering service into two groups: 1) service related with preparing production process; 2) service related with provision of normal continuing of the process of production and its realization. To the first group belong: a) pre-projecting service (social-economical researches; topographic processing and planning of location; researching grounds; searching for the minerals; technical-economical statement of project and so on); b) projecting service (preparing general plan and recommendations; estimation of expenses made on its exploitation beforehand; preparing technical specialists and so on); c) further service of he project (preparing contracting documentation; organization of auction; estimation of suggestions; making contracts; managing building process; making and granting certificates about finishing work, making technical conclusion about building and so on); d) special service (researching about utilization, various juridical procedures and so on). To the second group of engineering service belong: service related with the managing and organization of the production process, service related with the examination of the object; consultations in the financial questions; service related with the production realization (researching the conjuncture of the market, advertisement organization), service related with the involving the system of informational provision and so on. Engineering consultations, in the conditions of deficit of high-qualified personnel, can provide intellectually the investment process, help firms to rise effectiveness, fasten circulation of the investment resources.

Portfolio investment market is the consisting part of the financial investment market. By forming society of share-holders and with the help of financial institutional investors, their activity at the financial investment market support significantly accumulation of independent cash sources in the country, also attracting of foreign investors, fastened circulation of financial investments, effective insurance for financial-investment risks and so on.

For clearing investment motivations up and defining levers is state influence we thing advisable discussion of peculiarities of the investment circulation in the process of further production of material (basic and turnover) and financial capitals.

Investment circulation in the process of investment activity is realized in the following basic directions:

1.   investments in the material assets (production of basic and turnover capital);

2.   investments in financial assets;

3.   investments in the intellectual valuables.

Let’s discuss investment circulation in the process of further production of the material assets (basic and turnover capitals). Its every element may be divided into movable and immovable properties. Furniture, mechanisms, turnover capital belongs to the elements of movable physical capital and elements of passive part of basic capital (buildings, equipment, industrial infrastructure) – to the unmovable one.

Further production of the movable physical capital is realized in the industry, and of unmovable ones – in the building. Investment activity may be realized in the way of showing of unmovable property, furniture and other elements of physical capital at the market, or in the case of absence of needed commodity, in the way of their production (building).

Investment activity may be realized at the expense of different sources: own, borrowed, attracted sources for investments, budgetary assignations. Structure of sources depends at organization legislative forms of active and newly formed enterprise. Investments may be displayed as in the cash, material forms so in the face of property rights and intellectual potential. Foreseeing said above, investment circulation in the further production of a physical capital might be represented in the following way:

Thus, whole system of investment market forms total investment-market space. In this space a market of financial investments is filled by real and intellectual investment market.

Lamara Qoqiauri

Real Member of Georgian Academy of Economic Sciences

and New-York Academy of Science;

Doctor of Economics; Professor

 

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Earn online money from adsense Ads

February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

How to earn online money from blogging? Blogging is really a fun and almost every online user like to play with blogs. But in the few years the blogging have known as a good online business and many people are earning through their websites . Here, I would explain a fast and simple way by which we may start making through blog . Please remember that you can start this online business with zero money in the start if you want to use the free blogging platforms like blogger. But I recommend you to purchase your own blog name and hosting to start your own blog . Prior to creating a website , you should make the proper research for the topics and only select those keywords for your blog for which you have personal interest . It is essential to offer helpful and first hand content to your website visitors and readers to earn good money .

You should always remember that you will only be able to earn handsome money , if interested and regular people are coming on your website . To attract these targeted and regualr visitors, you need to achieve high search engine positions for your target keywords . It is necessary to get backlinks from other related blogs to your blog in order to get good search engine ranking . The easiest way to get these links is to submit your articles on article directories, with your website links . After your blog is successful to get targeted search engine traffic, your blog will start making dollars for you .

The easy and  simple way to make money fast from your blog is to use the Google Adsense. . You can earn fast money by this method. Google adsense is the real paying company and many website owners are earning a good amount from this source . You should place the Ads on prominent places on your website . It is seen the Ads that are above the fold have better conversion rate . When people will click on these ads, you will be earning money from that . Your website must contain the original, useful and unique content and information in order to get more clicks and revenue . Please don’t copy the material from other websites . Providing useful and unique info to your readers is the key to get high search engine ranking and earn maximum money from google adsense .

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Increasing Return On Investment

January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Many new business owners and investors believe that profits depends on the price of the product, and the number that are sold. Whether the product is a house, a course, an investment product, or an ebook, profit and loss is dependent on more than the price of the product and the number that you sell.

ROI

Return On Investment, the ROI, refers to the amount of profit you earn on every dollar spent. Two businesses may sell product A for 0 each. Company A may have an ROI of . Company B has an ROI of .

Both of these companies sell the same product, for the same price, but company A is better organized, has fewer expenses, and sells more products for the same cost.

A low ROI can be the result of poor office management, or a poor sale’s record. There are several different factors that may lower the ROI. But, in short, the ROI is based on the number of sales you can generate on your yearly operating budget.

The more sales you generate, the higher your ROI.

There are several ways to increase your ROI. The first is to take a close look at the cost of operating your business. Many businesses operate under a lot of waste. They hire a full time secretary when outsourcing would be sufficient.

The second method is to tighten up the company’s sale’s network. This may involve spending money on research. It may require and investment in time to learn what your consumers want, need, and what problems draw them to your product or service.

Two-Way Marketing

Most companies that have a low ROI also lack a two-way marketing plan. They may do market research, or run some surveys, but they also lack of two way communication between the company and the consumer.

Many high-profile companies believe that courses, convention weekends, and marketing surveys are good substitutes for two-way communication between the company and the consumer.

Unfortunately, all of these types of marketing are one way. They keep the company in control of the information control. The consumer has only two choices. They may respond to the company representative or agent, or they may remain quiet.

Two-way marketing allows customers the opportunity to voice their opinions, concerns, and write their own content. Then the company collects the information and uses it for marketing, even if it contradicts their current target marketing efforts.

Television companies do this. They consider that 1 response to a program is worth 1000 responses. So, a company that has 10 responses that suggest a new problem, or concern, can represent another 9000 or 90 000 people who did not take the time to respond.

This type of marketing is not an inconvenience to overlook. It is a powerful marketing tool that can be used to find secondary markets or products that might increase your ROI.

For example, let’s say that you sell a ‘how to start a business course.’ However, your course package offers a mentorship program that includes 1 hour a month with a certified Success coach. This not only sells a business to consumers, but it sells problem solving.

Profit

Increasing ROI will also increase the profit. There are a thousand methods of increasing an ROI. The easiest to understand, and cheapest, is to build two-way marketing between the consumer and the company.

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A Beginners Guide To Share Trading In Australia

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If you are new to share trading, putting the pieces together can be quite challenging in determining where to start and how the whole share trading system works. The following steps may point beginners in a right direction. However, bear to mind that this is not legal advice. Use this information at your own risk.

Where to start in share trading?

To start trading on Australian stock market (ASX), you need an online trading account with a broker (e.g., ComSec or eTrade), a cash management account that is linked to this account, a minimum 0 for the initial purchase, and some common sense.

If you happen to be already with Commonwealth bank, it make sense to setup a trading account with ComSec. This can be done online, but requires printing out the forms and sending them to the bank manually, in order to verify your signature and other details. The bank will then email you your login details and post the share trading account terms and conditions.

Once you are able to login, you will need to transfer some funds to the cash management account connected to ComSec. You will need to check what is the minimum trading amount and brokerage fee – this information is available on their website.

What share stock to buy?

There are two ways to invest. Invest long into blue chip companies (large stable corporations) or invest short into start-ups or smaller companies.

If you are prepared to wait and prefer to avoid risk, investing in blue chip companies may be a better option. Your stock will not grow fast, but it will grow. The goal here is to get a better return than you would normally get from keeping your cash in a high interest bank account.

However, if you are keen to really test out high return investment possibilities, investing in a least known companies may do the trick. In the current economic environment there are many companies with share price below 1 cent. If the share price goes up to 1 or 2 cents, it means that you’ll get 100-200% return on your investment. And if often happens in one day.

What to look out for?

Your online share trading account will provide you with real time share prices and historical data for listed companies. Before investing in a specific company it is suggested to collect sufficient amount of data suggesting immediate price growth or at least, price growth in the near future.

There are some indicators that normally suggest that:

First, it is suggested to review historical graphs. It is absolutely paramount to establish a high probability that the company is able to deliver better results in the near future. It is important to check what level the share price got to in the past and then research what company actually did during that time.

Second, it is suggested to review the company’s past and recent stock market announcement. ASX listed companies are obliged to disclose all information that affects the share price. These include various financial statement, annual reports and operational and exploration plans and results. Compare the graphs to the stock market announcements. Once you determine a pattern, all you’ll need to do is to wait for a similar announcement, invest right away and they see if the company behaves the same way it did in the past.

Share trading can be fun and it can be very exciting. Start small, be quick to learn and good luck!

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Resources of financing investments for elevation of the role of commercial and investment banks

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Again about investment financing of the banks. As practice shows, long-termed financing of programs doesn’t take place spontaneously, but it means analyzing and control of current activities of the enterprises. For satisfaction of such requests, unfortunately, not every enterprise appeared to be ready. There, where all these requests are satisfied, banks become active participants in processing plans of strategy and financial provision of investment activities of the enterprises.

A special attention is required by such direction of the activities of commercial banks, as project financing is, which, to our mind, requires administration and financial support from the government, we mean the condition, that for effective salvation of investment problems it is necessary to create finance-industrial groups, and holding unions, which, in its turn, represents initial form of forming thick financial capital at the market and confluence of bank capital to the industrial one.1 This will give rise to the growth of investment volume in the economy and growth of effectiveness of capital investments. Of course, creation of such unions will be actually supported by commercial banks, but this is interrupted by such condition, that groups created today provide this activity in unregistered form and nobody is interested in their registration. This is supported by incomplete logistic, slow development rates of the institute of private property, interruptions in realization of agrarian reforms, provision of accounting calculations of financial structures in incomplete form and existence of separate statements working opposite to the creation of holding unions in the low about industry. All mentioned above may be solved immediately, by processing special low about investment activity and on the basis of its setting by the parliament in a short period of time.

It must be mentioned, that there are enough conditions for widening financial investments in the economy from the bank side because of the existence of free cash means. It is important, that these financial resources were influxed and to create a system of rational organization of purposeful usage, which must be expressed by processing of the investment policy. Here an important meaning belongs to the investment policy and correct definition of tactics.

What problems are there in front of the banks? It is also to be mentioned, that commercial banks have numbers of problems while realization of their investment activities, which prevent their normal functioning. We mean the banks, working on financing investment projects, in fact, represent only one unit in the system of private institutions. We consider following to be preventing conditions of their activities:

· Existence of marketing center of the investment projects, a coordinating organ in the country scale, which would play a function of regulator in the financial provision of the investment projecting;

· Unacceptability o the information about position of a potential borrower or investment institution;

· Refusal of creation of deposit web;

· Low level of development of the investment funds existed today;

· Absence of state investment bank, total specific organ of financing investment activity and, consequently, spontaneous distribution of the functions of investment banks working abroad under the conditions of market economics among Georgian commercial banks.

It must be also mentioned, that there are many economical factors, which may influence negatively upon realization of investment processed by the banks and nobody can define beforehand nontransiency of expected risk danger of these factors. Herewith, widening of working sphere in the investment activity of commercial banks objectively requires: giving more independence and rights to the commercial banks, growth of effectiveness of long-term investments and growth of incomes, relatively with those received from short-term financial operations, fastening of this process, ll kinds of supports from the side of the government and finally, further statement of trustfulness and firmness of the activities of banking system.

About necessities of providing structure institutional reforms in the country. For guaranteeing firmness of banking activities structure-institutional reforms, min goal of which is preparation for new stage of development of banking field, come to the first place. Necessity of the mentioned reforms is conditioned by the position of financial market of the country. New institutions, as mentioned in the works of D. Nort – the laureate of Nobel Premium, are formed in the case when the society sees the possibility of making profit, which is impossible during active institutional system. Maximal investment activities of banks are possible during many-fielded system o a financial market. This is a result of logical development of competition, as it solves problems of optimal usage of financial resources. Exactly this many-fielded character reduces and stops crisis in the country.

Many-fielded character of the banking system is characteristic to the most part of developed countries (the USA, countries of western Europe, Japan) and also for the countries having transitional economics, which applied for firm economical growth in the last decimal (China, Poland, Brazil and others). Exactly this many fielded banking system gives possibilities for using various types and forms of financial service in economics by credit department.

In this system the state creates various mechanisms of artificial reduction of competition among financial organizations. An evident example of this is separation of credit institutions into commercial and investment-credit institutions in the USA, also reduction of the bans of countries in the sphere of realization of many year credit investments and separation of state bank into separate category.

About development of small-scale business in Georgia. Creation of advantage regime for small-scaled business, in the first place, regulates creation of competition able outer conditions of the investment activity, which must be definitely foreseen in the activities of the country’s banking system. It must also be mentioned, that according to the development and improvement of the economy in the future, perhaps, such activities may not be needed, but under the conditions of transitive economics their importance may not be specially noticed. It is natural, that many-fielded financial sector is formed only under the equal conditions of competition, as there is reason-resulted, reverse-influencing relation. Mentioned relation between many-fielded financial sector and competition is expressed by that it helps creation of advantage regime for the investment activity being in the position of an embryo and its further development.

Briefly about state regulation of the investment process. According to the many-fielded principle of the financial market, the state must work out such a system of regulating investment activity, which guarantees “peaceful” coexistence of various financial institutions notwithstanding their size and specialization. Banks of every category must “act” in their marketing “sphere”, while regulation of banks of different levels from the state is stated according to the rules of regulation. Privately, to our mind, it is important to point out and regulate activity spheres of those banks, which use a capital of governmental organs. Under the conditions of many-fielded system of a financial market competition carries “fair” character and this is why such system is much firmer. Privately, in case of many-fielded system, under the conditions of concrete fight, while financing concrete state programs by forming a system of specialized state banks usage of state resources is possible more effectively. In this case objective usage of lobbing of state resources from the side of commercial banks is not allowed. For example, in Germany realization of state projects of ecological, agrarian, building and other fields are provided by specialized commercial banks. There are specialized credits in the banking system of other developed countries (Japan, Italy, France and so on) too. Such practice significantly reduces danger of incorrect usage of state resources under the conditions of competition fight.

One of the most important factors, which degrade effective development of real sector of the economy, is the irrelevance of the needed financial capital for the regional services. Basic volume of financial resources from the enterprises is accumulated in the center. Such situation is in a way justified for the state, but it is absolutely insoluble in relation with the private companies.

According to the various estimations, regional banks control not more, than 20-30% of inflow of financial resources of the regional enterprise, and this seriously degrades development of the local banks and enterprises. Thus, for solving problems about lack of resources for crediting real sector of a small economics of regional banks, question related with it, must be discussed in relation with outflow of financial resources from the region. Solving of these problems by administrative activities is impossible, processing of appropriate economical activities is needed. We mean the condition, that together with the growth of the share of local budgetary tax income, it is important to define responsibilities of the budgets of municipal creations in the development of regional economics. Thus, financial federalism is that necessary condition, which guarantees, from one side, formation of balanced market of financial service, and, from nother, further development of the investment activities on the basis of appropriate legislative base.

What does a financial federalism bring to the financial market? Creation of equal conditions for the competition under the conditions of financial federalism will naturally lead us to the formation of many-fielded system of the financial market. Such process also gives rise to the creation of thick financial centers on the basis of the existed and newly formed banks. Thus, development of regional banks within the bounds of the conception of banking industry development, gives rise to the growth of financial potential o regional economics. At the modern stage conditions of development of bank branch sphere are being widened more and more. Today banks mostly provide sources of basic financial capital inflow in the way of “region-center”, after transition to the real federalism many-fielded banks transform into the banks providing sources for financial capital outflow among the regions.

It also must be mentioned, that it is important to grow the importance of banking business, which must be expressed by forming town and country credit relations, mutual crediting and insurance societies, and loan-constructing associations. All these must be foreseen in Georgia in the process of banking system development and, accordingly, an adequate logistic must be prepared for advantage conditions for development of small and middle banking businesses, because formation of effective financial system in the regional scale is absolutely impossible. Therewith, if we take into account the fact, that the investment portfolio in the structure of joint assets of Georgian commercial banks did not overcome 1% for the first of January of 1999, and 4% for the first of January of 2005, this speaks for the tendencies of growing portfolio investments.

Attraction of foreign investments. Globalization and internationalization of the world’s industrial relations gives rise to the growth of the role of foreign investments, as financing investment activities.

Essence and types of foreign investments. Foreign investments are hose capital resources, which are taken out of one country and invest abroad in this or that industrial activity, for the purpose of making industrial profit or receiving percents. Foreign investments may be realized in various forms. While analyzing this form we can use distinguished methods of approach for classification of the investments, which men their separation from each-other according to the objects, purposes, terms of investments, forms of property on the investment resources, risks and other signs. Herewith, the necessity of specific of foreign investments defines statement of number of classification features for the investments of this type.

For example, foreign investments may be state, private and combined according to the property forms on the investment resources.

State investments are those resources of state budget, which are directed abroad by decision of the government or inter governmental organizations. These resources may have the face of state resources, credits, grants ot support.

Private (nongovernmental) investments are resources of private investors placed into those objects, which are placed out of the bounds of given country.

They call combined investments joint placement abroad of the resources of the private investors and the government.

According to the character of usage, foreign investments may be industrial and loan.

Industrial investments are direct or indirect ones placed into the business of this or that type for taking some rights for making profit of dividend kind. Loan investments are related with the distribution of resources under the loan condition, for the purpose of receiving percent.

While analyzing foreign investments, apportioning of straight, portfolio and other investments is of a great importance. Movement of foreign investments according to the international currency funds and methodology of the countries’ taxation balances are reflected in this section.

Briefly about legislative situation of the foreign investments in Georgia.  As shown in the chapters above, “investments” conceptually express long-term placement of the capital of solid quantity for the purpose of making profit. According to the Georgian low “about support and guarantees of the investment activities” investment is considered to be the valuable of every property and intellectual kind or the right, which is invested for the purpose of making possible profit and is used in the industrial activities provided on the Georgian territory. It may lean upon as inner (inside country), so outer (foreign) sources.

Here a great attention is paid to the investment surrounding (climate), which means real conditions existed in the country for the investments. It defines intensive attraction or declining foreign capital for the long-term investments. I.e. according to the concrete condition, investment surrounding may be as advantage, so in advantage, which is foreseen by every investor before making concrete step. Fundamental analyzing of the investment climate existed in the country and foreseeing risk factors are the basic goal f every investor.

Thus, it is definitely difficult to say, is present situation in Georgia good or bad. It would be more correct if we say that there are as advantage (stimulating), so preventing conditions in the country.

Foreign investments in Georgia are prevented by constitution, by the low “about support and guarantees of the investment activities” and by two-side agreement about investment encouragement and protection. Today Georgia has signed agreements with more then 23 countries about mutual support and protection and with 111 countries – about avoiding two-side taxation.

Legislative foundations and guarantees of their protection of realization of local and foreign investments in Georgia are defined by the low about guarantees and support of the investment activities, according to which foreign and local investors use equal rights. Privately, while realization of investment and industrial activities rights and guarantees of the foreign investors must not be less then those of the local juridical and physical persons.

According to the same low, physical and juridical person, also international organization, which provide investments in Georgia are considered to be the subject of the investment activity.

It must be mentioned, that after paying taxation and compulsory payments, a foreign investor gains right for unreduced repatriation abroad of the profit received from investments and other cash resources, and this may reduced only on the basis of the low – according to the court decision in case of bankrupting, crime or not fulfillment of civil obligations. Herewith, foreign investor has right to take abroad the property being under his/her property.

Georgian low “about supporting and guarantees of the investment activity”. Positive and negative sides. Georgian low “about supporting and guarantees of the investment activity” foresees as preventing and reductions in the sphere of providing investments, also the guarantee of protecting them, which means untouchable character of the investments and compensation in case of taking away investments within the bounds of the mentioned low. The compensation, which is given to the investor in case of taking investments off him/her, must conform to the real market value of the taken investments for that moment, when the taken off takes place. The compensation must be granted without any hamper and it must concern that loss of the investor from the moment of taking off till paying of the compensation mount.

It must be mentioned, that a new legislative act, which somehow worsens conditions of investments stated by this low, isn’t spread on already realized investments, ten years after its setting. In such case the investor realizes his/her activity according to the actual low until the new one is put down to the action.

A quarrel between foreign investor and state organ, if the method of its decision is not defined by dual agreement, is solved at Georgian court or in the international center of the investment quarrel. In the case, if the quarrel is not discussed in the international center of investment quarrel, the foreign investors have right to apply for the additional institute of the center or any other international arbitrageur organ, which is founded according to the rules set by the arbitrageur and international agreements of the commission of international trade low of the United Nations. Arbitrageur court of international trade palate in Georgia functions from December 11, in 2000.

According to the statistical showing, the most attractive sectors for the foreign investors were production of oil and gas, energetic, telecommunications and food industry according to the statistic showings during last years. Among largest investors there are such companies as Frontera Resources Corporation (USA), which has invested more then 30 million US dollars into Georgian oil production; Metromedia international – 40 million US dollars of investments in telecommunication; Pernod Ricard (France) – with the investments in alcohol production; AES (USA) – investments in distribution and generation of electro power.

By comparing showings we learn, that according to the hydro energetic potential, Georgia significantly overcomes such countries rich in the so-called “White Coal”, as France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Romania and others. Though practically, less then 15% of real possibilities are used, and this gives large perspectives to the foreign investments in Georgia.

The fact is to be mentioned, that the foreign companies are interested in the process of privatization of state property, which is one of the most important part of the realized economical reform in Georgia. The fact, that foreign capital is invested in more then 100 Georgian companies proves this.

For influxing foreign capital into Georgia a positive surrounding is created by the existence of advantage conditions for development of such reduced fields, as oil production, black and colored metallurgy, separate kinds of mechanical engineering, mountain chemical industry, bottling of fresh and mineral water, production of building and decorating materials, tea, wine, fruit, citrus, wool, tobacco, industry of their refining and others.

Though foreign companies provide capital investments into these fields, for example, in agrarian and food industries, but it is provided in a very little quantity.

Factors of disadvantage surrounding in Georgia. Among those factors, which give rise to the disadvantage climate for influxing foreign investments in Georgia following are to be mentioned:

· Political strain and not quite seldom facts of lobbing business with unacceptable methods by the representatives of executive and legislative government, this takes away the basis of healthy competition as in common, so among the investors;

· Violation of the territorial integrity of the country, ethno conflicts, Not controlling of Abkhazia and South Alania (Smachablo), difficulties with protecting state boards, which spreads widely the door to contraband and prevents growth of risk factors of  influxing of as native, so foreign investments;

· From the beginning of 90s of last year, analogue to the countries of post soviet space, sharp economical, financial, energetic, food, ecological and other crises developed in Georgia for not ordinal conditions, gave rise to the backwardness of our country’s economy for some decimals. It would be enough to say, that a level of whole European product consisted only 36.8% in 1999, compared with 1991. This was the lowest showing in whole post Soviet space. Such destroying of economical functioning, evidently, reduces requests on foreign investments and significantly restricted their influxing;

For the purpose of statement of the level of spreading negative occasions mentioned above and processing appropriate recommendations World Bank and European bank of reconstruction and development provided joint research, where they learned 22 countries having transitional economics. According to these researches they made a conclusion, that a showing of “state obedience” (of corrupting, taking into hands) in these countries consists average 21%. It must be mentioned, that same showing consists 24% in Georgia. What about average level of administrative corruption, it reaches up to 3%, while in Georgia – 4.3%.Iit is natural, that created situation fears foreign investors and prevents influxing of their capital in a large quantity in our countries.

According to the experience of last years, giving state guarantees to the foreign investments is more difficult. Though, if it were easy to achieve, it would not be enough for the foundation, as Georgian state doesn’t stand on the firm positions, for making n investor sure in stability of the country. For comparing let’s discuss investment surrounding of Czech Republic, privately, that part, according to which investment logistic of the country foresees from April 1998 such scheme of advantages, which concerns taxation, custom and those of definite regions, also, grants for creation working places and so on . According to the mentioned analyze following is cleared out, that equal priorities in using advantages are given as to the foreign investors, so to the local ones. At the same time, if we pay attention to the showing of inflow of straight foreign investments into Czech Republic by years, we’ll see, that after the quantity of straight foreign investments had been reduced in 1997 (1300 billion USD) relatively to 1996 (1428 billion USD), in 1998 it was doubled and consisted 2720 billion USD, and in 1999 equaled to 5108 billion USD. One of the stimulating factors of the mentioned progress must be considered involving a system of advantages activated in Czech Republic from 1998.

Unfortunately, there is not a firm system of foreign investments and insurance yet in Georgia, which would significantly help the process of making investment surrounding healthy and inflow of a large amount of investments from abroad.

Factors preventing development of the country economy – significantly wide scales of shadow economics and corruption, so-called distribution of influence spheres by clans, setting of a barrier in this or that spheres of business especially prevent, from one side, development of local business and, from another – influxing of large-scale international investments.

How to use international legislative norms in the Georgian investment activities. Thus, a lot of problems (complex of problems) are formed in the process of attracting and using of foreign investments, and they are regulated by legislative norms.

Whole logistic regulating foreign investments may be grouped in the following way:

1.  special norms;

2.  total civil norms;

3.  norms of international agreement.

To special logistic in the first place belong special logistic and its following acts of quite large quantity.

Civil logistic regulates and conditions relations of foreign capital and enterprises participating with numerous counteragents. We mean various kinds of agreements, questions of representation, researching questions and so on. Thus, civil logistic is used in the case, when regulation of the activities of foreign investors is not provided with the special one, for its tight direction.

Norms of international agreements is the part of the country’s legislative system. International agreement gains special importance during international economical relations. Activation of the mentioned norm is basically spread on attracting and usage of foreign investments; following legislative acts belong to this sphere:

1. International dual agreement of mutual protection and encouragement of the investments. Dual agreements of foreign investments are discussed in this sphere as additional guarantees of the norms foreseen in national lows. Capital exporting countries and their investors consider that protection of foreign investment is more effectively solved in the way of inter-protection and encouragement of investments.

2.  International two-sided agreement for avoiding double taxation. Such agreement usually defines sources of income – profit and property, which is taxed in the country without any reduction. It is being set, which incomes (profit) and property may be taxed in the country – with some reductions and what source of incomes may be set free from taxations;

3. Many-sided conventions. From those international conventions, which regulate relations related with the investments, two are important – Seoul Convention about stating many-sided agencies of protecting investment guaranties (1985) and Washington Convention about solving quarrels (1965).

Involving of many-sided system of investment guarantees was outrun by creation and development of state system of insuring capital export in the developed countries.

Before making decision about placement of sources by the foreign investor, one of the important conditions is – guarantees of security and protection of capital investments in that country, where investments are inflown, the state takes obligations – to guarantee protecting of foreign property, guarantee of rights and interests of the foreign investor, guarantee privacy of realization of investment activity of the country territory. Thus, under the conditions of strict competition, state forms as much liberal regime for foreign investors as possible.

What difficulties are there in Georgia from the point of attracting foreign investments? Difficulties of definite kind are expressed today in the developing countries and, accordingly, in Georgia in the affair of attracting foreign capital and its effective usage. We my name following reasons for this:

· Regulation of the activities of foreign investors is getting difficult with the absence of stabile legislative base;

· Worsening of material position of the most part of the country population gives rise o the growth of social tension;

· There still are criminal and corruption in some sectors of industrial activities;

· Inappropriate level of infrastructure development; also of transport, communications, system of telecommunication, hotel services, roads and so on;

· High level of unsteadiness of total politics, privately, instability of logistic and court system;

· Absence of joint state investment policy in the business of attracting foreign investments;

Herewith, notwithstanding the difficulties named above, the country owns great potential, what may be the subject for interesting foreign investors. Privately:

· Rich and comparatively cheap resort and tourist resources;

· A large inner undeveloped market;

· Richest reserves of mineral and curing waters;

· Comparatively cheap qualified labor  force;

· Quite high staff of marketing development, which can master new technologies of production successfully and fast;

· Absence of serious competition by Georgian producers;

· Current process of privatization and possibilities of foreign investors in it;

· Possibility for making high profit very fast.

Thus, we can make a conclusion that, compared with the countries of Western Europe, notwithstanding large economical backwardness, Georgia can develop total investment activity comparatively faster, with the help of correct and effective usage of native and foreign investments.

 

Lamara Qoqiauri

Real member of the Academy of Economical Sciences of Georgia and New-York Academy of Science, Doctor of Economics, Professor

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How to Earn Online Profits in a Weak Economy

January 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

In this weak economy, millions of people are making less money in their primary jobs. Many of these individuals will look for a part time job to supplement their declining income. But in a weak economy, this becomes more and more difficult as fewer jobs are available. Others will look to the Internet to bring in additional income.

But what is the easiest way to make money online if you have little or no experience? The easiest and quickest way to earn online profits is to offer some type of service. Some services require you to have a skill, for other services, you need no skill at all, just an investment of your time. Skills that are in demand are: writing and doing graphics, to name just a couple.

Writing. Good writers are always in demand. Webmasters are always looking for fresh content (like this article. If you can write a simple 300 – 500 word article like this, you can earn online profits. Good articles can earn you five to ten dollars each. But if you are just starting out, you might only get a couple dollars for each one you write. But even at that lower amount, you can easily earn thirty dollars a day, which amount almost a thousand dollars a month.

Graphics. If your talents lean more toward graphics, your services are in great demand. Almost every website needs graphic headers, graphic banners, and ads. Most graphic designers use Photoshop, but you can use almost any paint program to design your work. Browse the Internet and look at the types of designs that websites are using. It will give you lots of ideas.

If you have no skills, you can still earn online profits. There are many programs that pay you to read emails or do surveys. Although you should exercise caution in selecting which of these programs you participate in as some of them are scams.  

So, if the weak economy has put you in a situation where you need extra money, you can earn online profits using a number of different techniques. For more information on earning online profits, <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);” href=”http://www.StartMakingMoneyOnlineFast.com”>Click Here!</a>

 

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Share Trading – Doing It Online

January 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One of the important establishments of most of the countries is the share market trading. Economic growth of any country depends on the presence of private and public industry in its country. Each of these industries that are to be formed requires a huge investment as capital but not all the players are able to come up with huge capital. Therefore they go to the public, assuring them to pay money to the venture and become partners in the business. So each and every people who like to earn money should know various details about online share trading and how to earn money in online share trading.

Many of the organization would provide shares of the business according to the value of the money being contributed by each person. They make all the decision regarding the company and the profit earned in the company are provided to these share holders in the form of dividends.

These shares of the companies can be traded in the secondary market among the various investors. In the past this market used to be of the manual format but now days almost every secondary market is converted in to an online market where the investor can trade his shares by sitting at home by using just his computer and instructing his broker to make the transaction on your behalf.

There are various advantages in a share market transaction being done through online system. For doing this online trading one has to have a demat account. Demat refers to dematerialization of the trading account.

The trading account that a person has is converted into the digital form called the demat account. Once a person uses this account then he would feel very comfortable using it and would never ask for the regular trading account. It is far more easy to use and is very flexible and the security provided for this account is good too.

Now a day almost every thing is available online. The news about the various issues and the various stocks involved, about the government policies are available on the net.

There are some government policies or company decisions that affect the price of the shares of a company and when the person knows the information about the share that you have then you could easily sell or buy the share that you need through online share trading in an instant. This prevents great loss for the trader. It may result increase in the profits for the person.

In the past when any news about the company is released there would be some traders who would have greater access to the news by using some insider or some fraudulent people and would sell or buy the shares of a company and would earn a lot of money through this. But this is not possible now days because of the usage of this online trading technique. It is one of the most effective trading techniques to be used. It has helped to cut down on the cost involved in the trading of shares. Technological inventions such as these are to be included in the markets to improve the working of these important markets.

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