Factors Affecting Asian Economies – 15 years

Posted by Bill Belew on July 3rd, 2006 in Asia | No Comments

It is hard enough when you don’t know the language or the culture or perhaps have never been to Asia and must rely on someone else to make your investment calls for you, but its even worse when things are way out of your control

Asia has seen some affects on their economies over the past four years that could not have been predicted.

Here are four of them.

1.  1992 – The sudden "Emerging Asia" bubble.

2.  1997 – The currency crisis.

3.  2000 – Global Recession

and…

4.  2001 – SARS.

At a recent Asia investment seminar that I attended the overwhelming number one suggestion for anyone interested in investing in Asia was -

1. Get on a plane and make the trip.

How can an investor understand currency exchange, sudden growth and the affects of a disease – beyond intellectually – on a region unless they have been there?

What do you think?

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  1. elaine says

    12/07/2006

    I must say that I agree with you. Experience is still the best teacher and unless investors take the risk of going in Asia, they would really know what they have to gain and what they have to lose.