Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Refers To

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) refers to:

A) the flow of funding provided by an investor or lender to establish or acquire a foreign company or to expand or finance an existing foreign company that the investor owns and controls.
B) the hot money that an investor needs to get registered in a foreign stock exchange to make investments, and have the liberty to sell and take back the stocks purchased earlier.
C) a method of funding business adopted by a foreign investor by participating directly in the secondary markets of a country, through investments in the country's stocks or bonds.
D) the passive holding of securities such as foreign stocks, bonds, or other financial assets, none of which entails active management or control of the securities issued by the investor.