Rob Marstrand
Articles by Rob Marstrand
Vietnam is a place that gets me excited. In the capital Hanoi, the sights, sounds and smells assault your senses all at once. Of all the cities in the 32 or more countries that I’ve traveled to, Hanoi is my top pick for a city trip.
Inside this month’s issue we’re visiting another Asian powerhouse economy – one that’s still not on mainstream investors’ radars. It’s what I call the “fifth BRIC.”
My Dad had an agricultural business when I was growing up. I loved spending my summers working with him on farms, driving machinery around.
Spies in suburbia…that’s the biggest Russia story we’ve read in years. But there’s another, better one the mainstream press hasn’t noticed.
There are just under 7 billion people on the planet today. According to the UN, there will be more than 9 billion people by 2050. That’s over 2 billion more mouths to feed than in 2010. Meanwhile, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization forecasts that world demand for agricultural commodities will jump by 60% over the next 20 years. As food prices rise…so too will the share prices of the world’s top food producing companies.
Inside this inaugural issue we visit the country I know best outside of my native England: China.
Spies in suburbia… that’s the biggest Russia story we’ve read in years. But there’s another, better one the mainstream press hasn’t noticed.
There’s a currency I think of as the “anti-dollar” that continues to appreciate against the U.S. dollar.
I have my eye on a different kind of Asia. One that is small, stable and rich. The local currency makes a relatively safe bet. Plus, this place is full of wealthy people with money to spend. According to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group, it has the highest share of millionaire households in the world, at 11.4%.
I first went to China in 1998. It was a bleak place. My parents had been there in 1987 and nothing much had changed.
Everyone knows Asia is where the growth is. We hear a lot from the mainstream media about China and India. There’s certainly money to be made in these places. But these are crowded trades… They’re big, chaotic and, for the most part, poor.
Today, I’m going reveal a secret Wall Street doesn’t want you to know about.
Imagine a lead weight on a string. If you leave it alone, it will just hang down. But if someone comes along and gives it a push, it will swing away. When it’s done swinging, it moves back to its original position.
I am writing to you today from Rocha in Uruguay. I love it here—clean air, green fields, traffic-free roads and miles of unspoilt sandy beaches. Bliss.
Argentina is the greatest place on earth for an investor. Not because its finances are such a success. But because they’re such a failure!
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