A New Investment Paradigm – 2009

OCO’s new report provides a comprehensive overview of the foreign direct investment (FDI) market. Containing latest trends and valuable perspectives from a panel of leading experts as well as the OCO senior team, it is provides insight and recommendations to address the key challenges faced by economic development professionals.

The FDI market is undergoing a major transition, brought about in part by the economic crisis and its resulting impact on FDI volumes. The crises has also exacerbated other underlying change factors, many of which were already prevailing in the market including:

• the decreasing role of Greenfield investment in favour of lower risk expansion modes such as M&A and Joint Ventures driven by developing economies
• changing corporate attitudes to the increasingly complex array and volume of economic development organisations and solutions
• increased adversity to risk across the private sector
• growing importance and impact of new investment forms such as Sovereign Wealth
• the rise of protectionism and the growing politicisation of foreign investment
• ascendancy and likely longer term dominance into the next decade of a number of new sectors such as Cleantech, Energy, Healthcare and Knowledge Process Outsourcing
• the rise of co-location and re-location in developed economies with Tier 2 cities standing to benefit from downsizing in less competitive capital cities.

To request a hard copy of the report, please email therese.mccrory@ocoglobal.com