The diversification of the UAE’s economy, coupled with the surging confidence across different sectors including real estate, tourism & banking and the Expo 2020 projects, will contribute towards more foreign direct investments (FDI) influx into the country, according to Al Mal Capital – a subsidiary of Dubai Investments and a diversified financial investment institution offering a range of financial products. The current market condition offers unmatched opportunities for the UAE’s economy, which remains the number one market in the region for foreign direct investments, attracting 61.6 per cent of all FDI projects in GCC countries in 2015, as per the AIM Investment Report 2016: The Future of FDI released during the Annual Investment Meeting [AIM] in Dubai. Official figures showed that Dubai alone received nearly Dh20 billion in foreign direct investments in 2015 and more than two thirds of the funds came from Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, India and Kuwait. Al Mal Capital believes that the main challenge to the GCC economies was the drop of oil prices globally; but the positive sentiment in the wake of Expo 2020 projects, the jobs it will create and the potential growth expected in the tourism sector, will hold the UAE in good stead as it is well-positioned to take advantage of emerging opportunities with strong macro-economic fundamentals in place.