Since the recent release of the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report, investment promotion agencies around the world have been busy updating their marketing materials to either feature the good news on their country score and associated rank as evaluated by this arguably most renowned country competitiveness study, or – in the absence of [...]
The consequences of Brexit will be felt globally and for a long time. Following the Brexit vote, the pound plunged to a 31-year low and markets slumped across Europe, America and Asia, as economists predicted that Brexit would push the UK into a recession. Those of us in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) community have [...]
New clients often come to us because they are interested in setting up a US company, typically (though certainly not always) a subsidiary of a European parent. These companies are well aware that the US Market, while presenting great opportunities, also comes with large risks. They are concerned about the risk that a new, US-based [...]
Recent official and accidental publications on the state of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have raised the already heated public debate about the opportunities and threats of the item under negotiation to a new level of excitement. While unwilling to add yet another set of opinions to the notorious debate about [...]
As part of the Master course “International Economic Policy”, taught by Prof. Jan Pieper, the IUBH School of Business and Management invited Enovado's (formerly Geovadis) Co-Founder Sebastian Nowack to hold a guest lecture on the topic of FDI, with a specific focus on how companies are conducting international location decisions. Sebastian’s presentation, entitled “Location Decisions [...]