Tag: Personal Finance
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10. Short-term Volatility, Long-term Opportunity
These past few weeks have been a whirlwind to most investors. The tariff war initiated by the US has caused extreme volatility in the financial markets across all fronts – equities, bonds, rates, currencies, etc. The recent downturn, however, is nothing we have not witnessed before. In a not-so-distant past of just about 5 years…
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7. Vietnam’s middle-class rising, is it really? / Investing as a new survival skill
Among the investment and business community, the most common thesis on Vietnam, a tale as old as time, is its rapidly expanding middle-class. This narrative appears in everyday pitch materials, investment proposals, brokers’ recommendations and media. It is repeated over and over, and for long enough that most people now just take it as-is and…