10. Complete the sentences with the following words: investment, real investment, foreign direct investment, foreign indirect investment, individual investors, institutional investors.

1. ………are a group of investors who have funds to invest as a consequence of the conduct of their business.

2. ………is capital expenditure on physical productive assets.

3. Individuals or households that own securities are known as ….. .

4. ………occurs when citizens of one nation (the "home" nation) acquire managerial control of economic activities in some other nation (the "host" nation).

5. The process of supplying capital to a foreign institution, through a loan or purchase of stock, without sharing in the institutions management….. .

6. ………involve some kind of tangible asset.

11. Write down the Ukrainian equivalents:

Direct investment, financial investment, foreign investment, government investment, intangible investment, long – term investment, portfolio investment, private investment, to allocate investment, to carry out investment.

12. Find and read sentences explaining the title of the text.

13. Find in the text sentences expressing such ideas.

1. Investment is the act of investing in a company or business in order to obtain income or profit.

2. Users of capital depend on the investors.

3. The expansion of international capital flows depends on the technological advances, the removal of exchange controls and financial deregulation.

4. Foreign direct investment means that businessman in his country acquire managerial control of economic activities of businessman in another country.

5. "Multinational enterprises" (MNSs), "transnational corporations" (TNCs) and, more recently, "global corporations" have become known as firms controlling activities in several nations.

6. FDI in many national markets will stimulate competition among firms.

7. The process of supplying capital to a foreign institution, through a loan or purchase of stock, without sharing in the institutions management is foreign indirect investment.

8. There is a difference between foreign direct investment and foreign indirect investment.

9. There is a difference between foreign direct investment and portfolio investment.

10. Individual investors and institutional investors are two different groups of investors.

11. The receiving of high profit deals with a high risk.

12. There is a possibility to minimize the level of risk.

14. Checking facts and ideas using such expressions: Exactly; Right you are; I agree with you; That goes without saying; There’s no denying it; No doubt whatever; I can’t agree with you; I’m against it; You are mistaken; Hardly.

1. In economic science, foreign direct investment-(FDI) and portfolio investment are the same things.

2. The process of supplying capital to a foreign institution, through a loan or purchase of stock, without sharing in the institutions management is foreign direct investment.

3. Foreign indirect investment occurs when citizens of one nation (the "home" nation) acquire managerial control⁵ of economic activities in some other nation (the "host" nation).

4. Individual investors are a group of investors who have funds to invest as a consequence of the conduct of their business.

5. Institutional investors were the first who use the application of the quantitative security valuation techniques.

6. Investment is capital expenditure on physical productive assets, e.g. machinery, factory buildings, roads, bridges, houses, and stocks.

7. Constructing and diversifying portfolios and spreading the foreign investments among a number of different countries help investors to minimize the level of risk.

15. Find the definitions to the next terms: investment, investor, institutional investor, foreign branch, deregulate, intangible assets, investment company, managerial, multinational/transnational company.

1. …..is a large company with business operations in many countries.

2. …..is a limited company that uses its capital to buy securities as investments.

3. …..is a person or an organization that invests money in order to make a profit.

4. ….means connected with the job of being a manager.

5. ….means to remove or reduce the number of government controls over a particular business activity.

6. ….are assets owned by a person or company that do not have a physical substance.

7. ….is a foreign office that is a part of a larger organization with a main office in a different location.

8. ….is capital expenditure on physical productive assets.

9. Individuals or households that own securities are known as … .