Why invest in Asian Countries?

Posted by John on September 8th, 2019

Asia is the world’s fastest-growing region. China, India and the ASEAN states are experiencing an enormous boom. Investors must have a strategy to invest in these markets. Our platform, AsiaFundManagers.com, provides European investors interested in Asia fund investment with the critical information they need.We publish relevant information on investment trends in Asia: research, market commentaries, expert opinions, fund analyses, and comparisons, as well as country profiles.

Let us take a closer look at some economies: Indian economy growth is predicted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be 7.5% in 2019 and continue to rise at a rate of 7.7% from 2020 to 2023. Based on nominal GDP, Indian economy is the seventh largest in the world. In 2018, India’s GDP reached .96 trillion with a 7.3% growth rate.This is quite notable considering that India had a near bankruptcy status in 1991. Following the crisis, India moved towards a market-based and service-oriented economy. Earlier in 2019, Narendra Modi has been sworn in for a second term as India’s prime minister. The market has rated the re-election of the incumbent president as positive. The Indian economy benefits from continuity and predictability.

The largest economy in Southeast Asia with a nominal GDP of .066 billion (2018) is Indonesia. Indonesia economy growth rate was at 5.1% the same year.Over the last thirty years, the average growth rate of the Indonesian economy has been 5.3%. The IMF forecasts a slowly growing economy. GDP is expected to reach .446bn by 2023. A large labour force is sustaining growth in Indonesia: half of the total population is under the age of 30. Around two million more Indonesians enter the workforce every year.The biggest engines for the Indonesian economy are the services, agriculture and industry sectors. Agriculture accounts for one third of Indonesia's total GDP. The sector employs about 41% of the total workforce.

Turning to northeast Asia, the region is home to the third largest economy in the world by nominal GDP - after the United States and China. japan economy growthin 2018 was at a 0.7 per cent rate. For the next five years, the IMF forecasts a slow growth rate of between 0.3 and 0.9 percent. Abenomics - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic program - is slowly working to correct the country's sluggish growth. Japan is targeting 5bn USD in inward FDIby 2020.Current investment opportunities are inIT, AI, System Integrator, and Software and Contents sectors. Furthermore, tourism industry in Japan is gaining momentum. Japan became a popular destination for Southeast Asian middle-class. In particular, the number of visitors from Thailand has risen significantly since the Japanese government relaxed the visa requirement for Thais in 2013.In addition, the number of tourists from Vietnam and the Philippines to Japan has increased by 26% and 19% respectively (2018 compared to 2017).

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