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Dec 3, 2016 14:31
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French term

mandants

French to English Bus/Financial Investment / Securities Survey questionnaire for inv. managers
Hi

One of the questions is:

Combien de mandants de fonds spéciaux sont actuellement gérés ?

I'm not sure about "mandants" here or whether it might be a typo ("mandats"). However it does recur later in another question: Combien de mandants de fonds ouverts au public sont actuellement gérés ?

Thanks

Mark

Discussion

Daryo Dec 3, 2016:
it might be just clumsy writing as you don't "administer/manage" a person but a mandate, and anyway the question makes far more sense if you count "mandates" not people giving mandates.

Nothing stops the same person [un mandataire] (a big institution for example) to give lots of "des mandats", some "gérés" [="actively managed"?] some not [="trackers"?], so only counting mandates really makes sense.

Short version: must be "des mandats"
nweatherdon Dec 3, 2016:
In addition to be a typo ... is it more asking how many funds there are? Or how many among those funds are presently under active management? Perhaps they have some other mechanism for management other than "geres", such as a buy/sell formula?

Just to say that it's not 100% clear that it necessarily refers to the total number of funds in each category - "actuellement" plausibly serves as an additional filter in this grouping ... but probably it's just the total number
Rob Grayson Dec 3, 2016:
In my opinion… …it's a typo for "mandat".
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Dec 3, 2016:
Typo? It is an easy typo to make, even twice, particularly if the spellcheck/autocorrect thing is activated. Easy for it to slip through on a proof-read.
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=500...

Proposed translations

7 hrs
French term (edited): mandats

investment mandates/asset management mandates

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=management mandate

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Note added at 7 hrs (2016-12-03 21:36:30 GMT)
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Mandate = Allocation of funds to an investment manager to be managed for a specific purpose or style.
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : see dbox
2 hrs
what do you mean?
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