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A foreign institutional investor is an investor in a financial market outside of its official country of origin. Foreign investment refers to a foreign investor’s investment in domestic companies and assets of another country. Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) involves holding financial assets from a country outside the investor’s country. Forfaiting is a type of financing that helps exporters get immediate cash by selling their receivables at a discount through a third party. The free-float methodology is a method of calculating the market capitalization of the companies underlying the stock market index. A GDR is a traded financial security. Glocalization is a combination of the words “globalization” and “localization”. The Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC) is one of the three financial institutions that manage the financial assets of the Government of Singapore. The Great Depression was the greatest and longest economic recession in modern world history, which lasted from 1929 to 1941. The Great Recession refers to the economic downturn from 2007 to 2009 after the US housing bubble burst and the global financial crisis.