One of the world's leading mining companies recently retained PERC to facilitate a scenario plan on the sustainability of China's economic development and how it could fundamentally change the global supply and demand balance for resources over the next 20 years.
We have conducted risk assessments of different Indonesian islands like Batam, Kalimantan, Bali and Java to see how conditions vary between islands and how specific island risks compare with a consensus view of overall "Indonesian risks". Some islands are safer than others for foreign investors in terms of having different social conditions, vulnerabilities to corruption, labor conditions, physical infrastructure quality, and local governments' receptiveness toward foreign investors. We surveyed foreign investors on all these islands to assess their perceptions of these and other critical issues.
One leading foreign business chamber in Hong Kong recently retained PERC to conduct a business confidence survey of its membership and to identify which concerns were biggest in terms of the membership's priorities and which ones were less important. In this way the business chamber was in a better position to communicate its membership's main concerns to the Hong Kong government and to develop programs that concentrated on the issues in which the membership is most interested.
A leading multinational with operations in both China and Taiwan retained PERC to develop different cross-Strait's scenarios, assessing how different developments could affect the growth and interaction of the company's Greater China business.
We have just finished a country risk assessment of Cambodia for a company that is preparing to list on a foreign stock exchange and required an independent assessment on the risks and opportunities to which its Cambodian investment is exposed. Like much of PERC's other work, this was an example of how risk assessments really need to be customized to specific industries and projects. Generic approaches to country risk assessment are too broad to capture the real situation and relevance of specific variables.
In addition to retainer work and specific projects, the senior analysts of PERC are regularly called on for in-house briefings for senior management and international business associations. Our presentations are tailored to the specific clients' circumstances. We attempt to relate important regional trends and potential scenarios to clients' real-world situation, and provide them with the inter-linkages necessary to successfully monitor and react to complex external developments.