At Anh Thomas Investment, we like America. We always had and very likely always will. Several of our employees have lived in the US while others visit the US on a regular basis. Loving a country, or even worshipping it, should in no way affect your decisions as an investor. Facts are facts and you must never disconnect from reality. Facts, and above all how well they are understood and analysed, is what make an investment successful or not. The USA has been a superpower for

An investment decision must be taken on solid arguments. You need to be able to clearly explain why you buy one stock instead of another. This is maybe even more true when it comes to Vietnamese stocks. It sounds obvious but many individual investors are not able to explain rationally their choices. It is ok not knowing everything about your stock portfolio as long as you have an adviser who knows on your behalf and guides you. #Vietnamesestocks #Investment #Vietnamshares

FastGo is Hanoi-based Company that specializes in financial technologies. The company started a ride-hailing app that is a huge success in Vietnam. The company now tries to expand in other Asian countries. #startup #Vietnam #technology #investment

Many people living in developed nations believe that countries such as Vietnam are only (or at least mainly) good to copy technology from developed nations and are not able to innovate. This view is proved wrong on a daily basis. A good illustration of this can be found in the Vietnam Electronic Payment Forum 2017 themed "Mobile Payment - a factor to promote the non-cash economy" that officially opened last Monday. Vietnam is modernizing its economy very fast. “Digital techno

Last business-friendliness ranking came out and it shows major improvements for Vietnam. This report was created by the World Bank and is published every year. In last year ranking, Vietnam was 82th while this year it improved its ranking position to 68th. Vietnam "made exporting and importing easier by upgrading the automated cargo clearance system and extending the operating hours of the customs department," the report said. The top 5 countries have not changed and include

After a really strong month of September, October has been much more mixed for the Vietnamese stock markets. This month witnessed a strong performance divergence between the two main Vietnamese indexes which is quite unusual. On the economic side, Inflation eased in October while the YTD CPI increase to 2.25% and annual growth soared to 7.5% in Q3 (Q2: 6.3% year-on-year) despite a protracted downturn in mining and oil output. Finally, rising inflows of FDI amid concerted effo

While our team is finalizing the performance report for the month of September, let’s have a look at the pros and cons of investing in Real Estate. Among the pros, clearly one of the reasons why Real Estate is so popular is because this is something that can be physically touch and feel. For many investors, feels more real. One other advantage is that this type of investment tend to generate consistent wealth and long term appreciation. However, the picture is not all rosy an

The newly-accredited Spanish Ambassador to Vietnam Maria Jesus Figa Lopez-Palop recently met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to discuss potential new investments from Spain in Vietnam. Some expect the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to visit Vietnam in a close future. Spanish investors are more and more interested in Vietnamese assets and many Spanish companies are looking to expand their activities in the Asian country. https://lnkd.in/dAZQ49N #Investmen

Why invest in Vietnam? A thousand years ago, the economic centre of the world was in Asia. Today, it seems clear that the world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting back to Asia. Vietnam is ideally located. It has a long coastline with many ports and shares a border with southern China, and is thus close to large metropolitan and economic hubs such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The country's geographic position is one of its many assets and has encouraged firms to