Viola Caon is a senior editor at Investment Monitor and joined New Statesman Media Group from Euromoney’s IJGlobal. She has been writing about private investment in energy and infrastructure for the past four years after covering the asset management sector more broadly. Viola has extensive knowledge of the institutional investment world and has focused on fund investments both in infrastructure and across other asset classes at a global level since the beginning of her career in 2012.
The clean energy and sustainable infrastructure plan that formed a key part of Joe Biden's election campaign is bringing optimism to an industry hopeful of a much-awaited roll-out of projects in the US.
Industry clusters often offer foreign investors a ready-made supply chain and the skill sets to meet their needs. However, companies must be careful to avoid overcrowded markets.
As 31st December approaches, the UK’s logistics sector is one of the many in the country expected to face challenges within the still unknown Brexit trade scenario.
Suriname saw a dramatic drop in FDI inflows in 2019, but its rich natural resources could put it on the radar of investors as the world recovers from the Covid-19 outbreak.
Paraguay’s FDI inflows have been modest over the past few years, and as Covid-19 deals a blow to its trade, the government is ramping up its efforts to attract foreign capital.
In the wake of Covid-19, many governments around the world started to withdraw money from their sovereign wealth funds, causing them to rejig their investment strategy.
Bolivia's FDI figures have been disappointing over the past two years, but its natural resources and efforts to improve the investment landscape may help recover ground in the post-Covid era.
The discovery of oil in 2020 looks set to transform Guyana's economy, as well as make the South American country a more attractive location for FDI.
Access to a highly educated workforce is a rising priority for foreign investors, with those destinations that excel when it comes to education more likely to attract better levels of FDI.
Guatemala's new government is betting strongly on FDI to boost the country's economy, but Covid-19 as well as endemic corruption pose significant challenges to this goal.
Honduras ended 2019 on a negative note in terms of FDI inflows, and since then Covid-19 has caused high levels of unemployment and hit the country's most attractive sectors for foreign investment.
Nicaragua enjoyed healthy FDI inflows in 2019, but its authoritarian regime under President Daniel Ortega has come in for strong international criticism for its restrictions of civil rights.
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