fDi Intelligence is an English-language bi-monthly news and foreign direct investment (FDI) publication, providing an up-to-date review of global investment activity. The A4 glossy pages reach a circulation of 15,488 ABC audited,[3] active corporate and crossborder investment professionals across the world.[4]
fDi Intelligence is a central part of the fDi Intelligence portfolio of investment products and services from the Financial Times.[5]
Features
fDi Intelligence focuses primarily on FDI news and in-depth analysis of the corporate investment climate across many sectors. Regular columns comprise the following:
Name
Description
News
Updates on companies, markets and investments as well as the latest investor/host-country legal disputes.
Global Outlook
Reporting and analysis of the corporate trends and investment patterns, along with C-level interviews.
Corporate Strategy
Investigates the key company and/or project profiles as well as including a discussion under the best practice topic including key information for specific investments
Regional sections
Global news, commentary and data snapshots, followed by in-depth features and reports on key foreign direct investment (FDI) markets.
Think Tank
Knowledge and insight from leaders in FDI
Sectors
Global updates on key FDI sectors, including data, rankings, feature articles and spotlight location guides highlighting successful clusters.
Research
The numbers and hard facts behind global greenfield investment flows
FDI Report and Rankings
fDi Intelligence publishes an annual fDi Report which provides an overview of the global FDI statistics as well as a breakdown of the current picture in key regions like Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East & Africa, and the BRIC nations. It also focuses on a current hot FDI topic (in 2013 it investigated taxation in FDI) and makes predictions for the FDI outlook for the following year.[6]
A series of bi-annual rankings are published by fDi Intelligence which looks at the infrastructure, incentives and capabilities of cities and regions for attracting future inward investment.[7] This includes:
Middle East and African Countries of the Future
American Cities of the Future
Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future
Caribbean and Central American Countries of the Future
European Cities and Regions of the Future
Global Free Zones of the Year
Global Cities of the Future
Polish Cities of the Future
Chinese Provinces of the Future
Middle East and North Africa Free Zones of the Year
