The goal of this article is to identify and to quantify the determinants of the China's outward foreign direct investments (OFDI). The most important relevant outcomes of the authors dealing with this topic are analysed. In the analysis, 11 indicators are used. There are 2 approaches to detect influence on OFDI applied in the article. The first one uses the factor analysis, cluster analysis and analysis of variances on the sample of 69 countries. The second approach works with the cluster analysis, which is applied on the basis of data of 85 countries. The first approach did not prove the statistically significant difference among the China's FDI in different clusters. The second approach demonstrated the statistical significance in the FDI outflows only in case of one cluster.
The contribution is aimed at detecting how changes in oil prices influenced the development of assets of the oil sovereign funds, which countries possessing sovereign funds have been most affected, and whether and how changes in oil prices affected the foreign direct investments made by countries with the sovereign wealth funds. Analytical apparatus use the officially available data for oil prices, import, export, FDI and assets and investments of sovereign funds from SWF Institute. The causality between oil prices and annual growth of sovereign funds wealth in Kazakhstan, Norway and Russia has been confirmed. Shock in oil prices had the greatest impact on the value of assets in Russian sovereign wealth funds, then the SWF of Kazakhstan and the least impact had been observed upon Norwegian SWF. In the case of Russia, the shock in oil prices has had a long lasting effect. Saudi Arabia does not suffer from the low oil prices and it does not affect the principles of its investment decisions.
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