All articles by Viola Caon

Viola Caon

Viola Caon is a senior editor at Investment Monitor, focusing on infrastructure, logistics and the Americas market. She joined from Euromoney’s IJGlobal, where she covered 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.

FDI drivers in 2022: ESG

The global race to net zero has turned ESG into one of the most important drivers of FDI in the post-Covid world.

The state of play: FDI in Brazil

Brazil had been performing well when it came to attracting foreign direct investment before the Covid-19 pandemic, but now, as with the rest of Latin America, its near-term future looks bleak. Viola Caon reports.

Will M&A fill the post-Covid FDI gap?

As greenfield FDI takes a hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic, M&A looks set to become a preferred method of investment for companies wanting to expand internationally. Viola Caon assesses the sectors and markets ripe for such activity.