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In the above equation, r can indicate the internal rate of return on an investment. Suppose that an investment in an energy-saving technology cost 100 and reduces energy costs by 20 per year indefinitely. The reduction in costs is comparable to net revenues received. The above equation can be modified as follows I equals R/r, where the values of I and R are specified and the value of r is computed. Hence 100 equals 20/r, and r equals 0.20, or 20 percent. The internal rate of return on the 100 investment is 20 percent per year. An investment is generally profitable when its internal rate of return exceeds the (interest rate) cost of obtaining credit. The investment is attractive when its internal rate of return exceeds the investor s hurdle rate, which may vary depending on the riskiness of the investment, and on the rate that can be earned from alternative uses of the investment funds. 

Within a year of his return to Louisiana, Rillieux realized that he would have to finance his project himself or attract investors. During the next decade, he tried both. He convinced several planters to let him build and test his equipment in their sugarhouses, but each time his locally built machinery failed. He amassed an enormous fortune in land speculation and then lost it in a bank failure. At one point, he offered to spend 50,000 of his own money to build his system on the plantation of A. Durnford, a rich free man of color whose patron was the eccentric white founder of Liberia. Durnford refused the offer because he did not want to give up control of his people, i.e., his 75 slaves. 

Money attracts money. By far, the best endorsements for attracting new investors are the financial commitments of professional investors who have made noteworthy fortunes in the biotech arena. Usually, these are venture capitalists who have learned to judge entrepreneurs and their stories, or at least have been very lucky. Herein lies one of the main reasons for invihng high priced VC money into your deal it is a very good investment for attrachng more OEM in subsequent funding rounds. 

Small pharma companies originate mostly from academia. Therefore, their R D strategy is more focussed on the elucidation of the biological roots of diseases rather than HTS. In order to attract investors, they are also referred to as biopharmaceutical companies. As all biopharmaceutical companies are neither small (e.g. Amgen, Genentech), nor exclusively developing big molecules, this term is not appropriate. 

DCFR values are an estimate of a projects earning potential. Obviously the higher the DCFR of a project then the more attractive it is. The minimum acceptable DCFR value is the value that equals the companies required rate of return. The DCFR can be thought of as a mortgage rate such that if a project repays interest to its investors at a rate equal to the projects DCFR then the project will break-even at the end of its life, and the mortgage will be paid off. 

The proposed UGS project at Ninotsminda is technically and economically feasible but in the prevailing economic conditions in Georgia it has so far proven difficult to attract the necessary investors with relevant expertise in establishing and operating such large-scale UGS facilities. 

Decision makers in Georgia have to realize that the combination of de facto insolvency of most operating energy companies and uncertainty of the macro-economic trends in Georgia makes it very difficult to attract investors such as international financing institutions and international energy companies. Investors are simply not sufficiently confident that the situation will improve and investment risks will decrease. 

Restoring commercial viability and creditworthiness of the energy utilities, one-by-one and the sector as a whole, cannot no longer be avoided if Georgia sincerely wants to attract the interest of competent investors in the form of international energy companies and international financing institutions. 

If we manage to find appropriate structures to keep more than 2 bcm gas, a underground gas storage project would probably be considered commercially attractive for investors. [3,4] That is why this issue is deemed urgent in Georgia today (2003). 

What determines how high a fly-up can be expected or whether there will be a fly-up at all in the future Applying the invisible hand concept further, we believe that the average margins across a cycle will approximate to the level needed to satisfy the return requirements of the lowest cost capacity needed to meet demand growth - otherwise investors will not build and eventually margins will rise, which will eventually attract investment to meet the demand growth. 

The actual investment pattern will be driven by investors reactions to current or anticipated margins, but the end result will be that their returns will be impacted by the level of returns needed to attract enough new capacity to meet demand growth. Not all investments will have equal full cost, and the lower-cost investments will achieve returns above cost of capital. 

On the one hand, buyout firms have to make clear to potential investors why investments in their funds are worthwhile and why they are best positioned to satisfy investors needs and expectations. Buyout firms are placing increasing emphasis on enhancing the service they provide to their fund investors in order to differentiate themselves, and they are increasingly seeking ways in which they can make themselves attractive to fund providers (cf. Wright, M. Robbie, K.). 

The Chinese chemical market is attracting huge foreign direct investments. Between 1993 and 2003, investment projects amounted to around EUR 20 billion of contractual FDI, with Bayer, BASF, Shell, and BP the four biggest investors. Over the last ten years, five percent of foreign direct investment was into the chemicals sector. Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to enter via joint ventures partially driven by the need for feedstock access, but wholly foreign-owned enterprises will become more common following China s membership of the WTO. 

With such a long payback period the plant would have difficulty attracting investors. Therefore, the utility buy-back rate is the critical economic barrier in determining whether a plant is financially feasible. 

Public-private partnerships should be encouraged as essential for the development of products and processes, and especially to leverage investment seeking to reduce the dependence on imported biopharmaceuticals. For this, it is vital that institutions adequately project their research results, to enable them to better attract investors to fund technological development. Hence, it will be possible to increase the chances that an invention will turn into an innovation. 

The justification for this model is the fact that any share that sits well above the line (i.e. having a relatively high yield) for any reason will appear attractive to the market, investors will buy it, its price will rise as a result of this demand and its yield will thus fall back to the market line. Conversely, any share that is well below the line will appear unattractive, investors will sell, the price will fall and the yield will rise. 

The point of decline of remittances (that is, legal remittances, as reported above) coincides with Peking s orientation to joint investments with expatriate Chinese. That policy goes back to 1951, when the South China Enterprise Company, the forerunner of the present Overseas Chinese Investment Corporation, sold 100,000 shares to Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong and Macao. However, until 1957, the attractions for such investors were limited overseas Chinese investment could only find opportunities in agriculture, the least profitable sector of the economy. 

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