Foreign Direct Investor (FDI) : Direct investor is an entity or a group of related entities that is able to exercise control or a significiant degree of influence over another entity that is resident in different economy.
Direct Investment Enterprise (DIE) :It's entity subject to control or a significiant degree of influence by a direct investor.
Fellow enterprises (FE) : Those enterprises that are under the control or influence of the same immediate or indirect investor, but niether fellow enterprises control or influence other fellow enterprise.
ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARENT (UCP): Is the enterprise that has controlling power either through immediate relationship or through a controlling chains (ownership of 50% or more) and is not controled by any other entity.
Portfolio Investments (PI): Portfolio Investments is defined as cross-border transactions and positions involving debt or equity securities, other than those included in direct investment.
Other Foreign Investments (OI): is a residual category that includes positions and transactions other than those included in direct investment, portfolio investment, financial derivatives and employee stock options, and reserve assets.
To the extent that the following classes of financial assets and liabilities are not included under direct investment or reserve assets, other investment includes:
(a) Other equity;
(b) Currency and deposits;
(c) Loans (including use of IMF credit and loans from the IMF);
(d) Nonlife insurance technical reserves, life insurance and annuities entitlements, pension entitlements, and provisions for calls under standardized guarantees;
(e) Trade credit and advances;
(f) Other accounts receivable/payable; and
(g) SDR allocations (SDR holdings are included in reserve assets)