by Reid Kirchenbauer | Economic News, Frontier Markets, Recession Avoidance
Officially, Vietnam remains one of the few communist countries left on earth. Yet over the past few decades, this rapidly growing nation of 100 million people turned into a capitalist powerhouse… and did so mostly unnoticed. The Vietnamese government realized a...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Startups in Vietnam have access to all the conditions required to hatch multi-million dollar tech firms. Having attracted a rising large amount of foreign investment from global players, Vietnam and its startup scene deserves far more attention from investors than it...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated April 11th, 2022. Recessions are a fact of life in most countries. They seem to arrive every 7 years or so on average, leaving unemployment and stock market collapses in their wake. Many investors dream of endless growth without worrying about the...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated July 10th, 2022. Cambodia is among the world’s fastest growing countries. It’s also one of the most accessible frontier markets to foreign investors. Generally unexplored, and certainly undervalued, multinational firms including Samsung...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets, Property Investment
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...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated June 10th, 2022. Frontier economies will outpace developed economies in the 2020s because of a simple mathematical truth: 1+1 is 2, and that is a 100% increase; while 100+1 is 101 and that’s merely a 1% increase. In other words, a modest, evenly...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated July 15th, 2022. China’s goals are becoming even more globally ambitious as its size and influence grows. Having already taken the title of world’s largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, this trend will almost surely continue into the...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
In 2018, a Singaporean rideshare company called Grab stunned the world by effectively giving tech giant Uber the boot in Southeast Asia. Grab’s remarkable rise, however, is one of many success stories in the Southeast Asian startup world. Regional startups like...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated June 18th, 2022. You probably have seen the terms “frontier markets” and “emerging markets” elsewhere before. At a first glance, it might seem fairly self-explanatory what these terms mean. Emerging and frontier market economies are very different...
by Reid Kirchenbauer | Frontier Markets
Last updated May 13th, 2022. Frontier markets are often overlooked and misunderstood by investors. Some people incorrectly label frontier markets as “dangerous”, while at the same time putting all their eggs in one basket and only investing close to home. Yet...