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Best Countries to Invest in 2022

Best Countries to Invest in 2022

Update for 2024: A new year has begun. Here’s our updated article with the top countries to invest in 2024.    Thinking globally about your investments is a good idea this year. The best country to invest in 2022 probably isn’t where you happen to live. In fact,...

3 Worst Currencies in The World: Don’t Buy These

3 Worst Currencies in The World: Don’t Buy These

Last updated March 17th, 2024. Diversifying your portfolio into different currencies is a great way to limit its reliance on a single country's financial system. World currencies, of which there are over a hundred, can be ranked on a scale from "very stable" to...

Buying a Condo in Phuket: The Ultimate Guide

Buying a Condo in Phuket: The Ultimate Guide

Last updated April 5th, 2025. Buying property in Phuket is something that thousands of foreign investors have already done. Compared to most other countries in Asia, it's undoubtedly easier to own real estate in Thailand. Thus, if you want to own property on a...

Malaysia Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

Malaysia Foreign Property Ownership: Your Best Options

Last updated May 12th, 2025. Arguably, foreign property ownership in Malaysia is easier than anywhere else on the whole continent. The Asian continent, by and large, doesn't hold the sensibilities of allowing foreigners to own property on a freehold basis. This has...

3 Changes to Know Before Investing in Myanmar

3 Changes to Know Before Investing in Myanmar

Last updated April 8th, 2022. The process of opening up and liberalizing a developing nation is never an easy task. It's especially hard for Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country which was closed off from the world economy until 2008... and then underwent a coup barely a...

Top 8 Korea Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Top 8 Korea Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Last updated April 27th, 2025. South Korea escaped the middle-income trap to join Singapore and Japan as Asia's third wealthiest country. Because of this, property developers in Korea benefit from relatively new demand for housing. Few other countries in the world...

Top 10 Indonesia Property Developers: Complete Guide

Top 10 Indonesia Property Developers: Complete Guide

Last updated April 2nd, 2025. Ranked as the fourth largest country in the world in terms of population size, Indonesia's real estate developers are naturally among the fastest growing companies in Southeast Asia. If history is any guide for what happens in such...

Top 10 Japan Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Top 10 Japan Property Developers: A Complete Guide

Last updated March 13th, 2025. In many aspects, Japan is unique in its history and culture. Investors will find that Japanese property developers are also unique in their finances and approach to real estate. If you come from the Western world, you're likely not...

Why Frontier Economies Will Outperform in the 2020s

Why Frontier Economies Will Outperform in the 2020s

Last updated May 21st, 2025. Frontier economies will outpace developed economies in the 2020s because of a simple mathematical truth. 1+1 equals 2, which is a 100% increase. Meanwhile, 100+1 equals 101, and that’s merely a 1% increase. In other words, a modest, evenly...

Best Countries to Invest in 2021

Best Countries to Invest in 2021

Update for January, 2023: We’ve finally entered a new decade as 2023 begins. Here’s our updated article with the top countries to invest in 2023.   2020 was a particularly interesting time where many investing myths were tested. A year ago, we were talking about...