The foreign investment or foreign capital that arrives to our country, can be classified into three different types of investment: Foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment and institutional investment through pension funds, insurers, etc.

The first is the most productive, because FDI enters industrial, commercial or service companies and helps generate jobs, that is, these investments serve the domestic market and export to the United States in conjunction with the Treaty of Free Trade with North America (NAFTA). The second type of investment is short-term, traditionally foreign investors acquire Mexican debt, either public or private, and are considered to be short-term because they can be withdrawn at any time. The third type of investment is, often, a combination of both. He is known as institutional investors. Such as companies, administrators of investment funds or pensions.

This was explained by Fernando Quiroz Robles, the president of Akaan, during a press conference of the investment firm, in which, when questioned about the uncertainty of elections and NAFTA, he declared that the instability is in the national market. and it does not affect foreign investors as much.