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AI #16: How you could make 150% in the Chinese Noodle Wars
Features Do you remember the British Cola Wars? During the 1990s, Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola suddenly found themselves under attack from two upstarts: Virgin Cola and Sainsbury’s Classic Cola.For a while, the battle was fierce. But today, it’s as if it never happened.
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AI #15: The hottest investment story of 2011
Features I’m sure you’ve watched it happen many times. You find an investment story that you hope will deliver healthy returns for a few years. You settle on the best way to invest. And then suddenly the stock catches the public imagination.
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AI #14: Investing in a Malaysian obsession
Features Watch a Malaysian food-stall holder preparing the national drink of teh tarik and you’ll get quite a show. It’s no good just dumping tea leaves in hot water and pouring a bit of milk on top: as the name teh tarik (“pulled tea”) suggests, the mix needs to be poured from jug to jug, letting it fall as far as you can each time, to get the right foamy, frothy texture.
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AI #13: The Asia Investor Performance Report
Features In Asia Investor this week, I’m going to be doing my regular quarterly review. We’ll take a look at the performance of the portfolio so far, then I’ll update you on developments and my current view for some of the stocks in detail. In particular, I have the very latest updates from Eredene.
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AI #12: Profits from Asia's hungry shoppers
Features Towards the end of my trip a couple of weeks ago, I was in a shopping centre in Hong Kong. I was between meetings and badly in need of a quick snack. I fancied some toast with kaya (coconut jam) and when I saw the familiar sign of a café chain known for this, I headed straight towards it.
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AI #11: A flying update from Kaohsiung
Features This week, I’m writing to you from the city of Kaohsiung in the south of Taiwan. I’ve arrived here from Guangzhou in China and will be on the move again to Taipei on the last leg of my trip very shortly. It’s been an eventful few weeks. One minute, I’ve been sitting in a high-rise office, listening to a man tell me his plans to make a splash in noodle soup
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AI #10: How Indonesia's doctors could pay you an 8% dividend this year
Features This week’s Asia Investor comes to you partly from beautiful island of Penang. And partly from somewhere rather less luxurious.I spent the weekend overlooking the ocean at the famous Eastern & Oriental Hotel, once popular with Noel Coward and Rudyard Kipling.
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AI #9: From wealth to poverty in fifty yards
Features I know from my first visit that Jakarta can be a real culture shock - much more so than most Asian capitals. Arrival is still jarring.I’m writing this from the 10 th floor of a well-appointed four star hotel that’s still cheap enough for the parsimonious Asia Investor travel budget. On the skyline, I can see a row of expensive new condominiums.
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AI #8: How Asia's motorists could make you 60% in 2 years
Features Today, I want to show you the smart way to play the new Asian auto boom. There are some businesses that should benefit well from the growing demand for cars in Asia. And I’ve found a stock that could more than double your money over the next two to three years.
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