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Why should I invest in the Vietnamese stock markets?

Jul 4, 2019
1 min

Why should I invest in the Vietnamese stock markets?

Vietnam is still a relatively poor country but it is also a country with one of the highest economic growth in the world. With annual growth close to 7%, there is no doubt that the future is quite rosy for the country and its people. Vietnam, the best performing stock market in South-east Asia, is not as yet officially recognised as an emerging market by the global index agency, Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI). The non-recognition denotes the country's unpreparedn

Investing in Vietnam stocks. Summary for the first half of June 2019

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Jun 18, 2019
2 min

Investing in Vietnam stocks. Summary for the first half of June 2019

The first half of June has been relatively stable but with a lower trend for the Vietnamese stock markets. As always when volatility is relatively low, we are facing a trading environment that is a not appealing for day traders and other active traders. Regarding the main Vietnamese indexes, they both followed the same trend during these first days of June. Since the start of the year 2019, the two main Vietnamese stock indexes have followed the same general trends even thoug

Leverage: how to become richer quickly... or totally broke in a few days:

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May 23, 2019
2 min

Leverage: how to become richer quickly... or totally broke in a few days:

Leverage is seen by many people as a magical tool. Leverage results from using borrowed capital as a funding source when investing to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on risk capital. You can use leverage to invest in properties but you can also use it to invest in the stock markets. We will focus on leverage when investing in stocks in this post. Let's assume that an investor has bought only one stock and that in doing so he used a leverage of 2. What it mea

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Jan 14, 2019
1 min

Do you know your portfolio performance?

Knowing your exact portfolio performance is of primary importance whether it be in Vietnam or elsewhere. The concept of time-weighted return is key to determine accurately the performance of a stock portfolio. The time-weighted return is the measurement required by the Global Investment Performance Standards published by the CFA Institute. With this measurement, cash inflows, cash outflows and amounts invested over different time-periods have no impact on the calculated retur

There is no doubt that investing in frontier markets is more complex and challenging than investing

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Dec 3, 2018
1 min

There is no doubt that investing in frontier markets is more complex and challenging than investing

Mainly because of lack of information available but also due to other factors such as cultural differences, there is no doubt that investing in frontier markets is more complex and challenging than investing in developed markets. Hence, individual investors investing in frontier markets face a double challenge: avoiding the common mistakes of individual investors in the stock markets while facing a frontier market where performing is more complex and requires more skills. #I

We have been advising clients since 2011

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Nov 26, 2018
1 min

We have been advising clients since 2011

We have been advising clients since 2011. Each of our advisors has more than 10 years experience of trading. They are used to go through bull and bear markets. A performance can only be judged when both bear and bull cycles are included. It’s easy to earn money in a bull market, it is often more difficult to limit losses in a bear market. Our historical performance speaks for itself. #InvestinginVietnam #Vietnamshares #Buyingvietnamesestocks #stockperformances

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Apr 27, 2018
1 min

Investing in solid undervalued stocks

It is well known that investing in the long term in solid undervalued stocks is a good way, if not the best, to make large returns when investing in stocks. This is true in developed markets like the American, Japanese or European ones but this works well too in emerging markets. However, there is just one little issue here. How do you identify these solid undervalued stocks? This is not an easy task and relying on simple figures such as low valuation ratios can turn out to b

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Jan 9, 2018
1 min

December 2017 stock performance

December has been another good month for the Vietnamese stock market. On the economic side, the Vietnamese Government announced that the country’s economy grew 6.8% in 2017. This is the highest economic growth recorded in 10 years. This growth has been driven in part by strong performances in industrial output and tourism. Industrial and construction output grew 8% on year to year basis while the service sector expanded 7.4%. Over the month, Ho Chi Minh index is up by 3.6% an

Compliance and regulations when investing abroad

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Nov 20, 2017
1 min

Compliance and regulations when investing abroad

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released on 5 November 2017 a list of names of some of the world’s biggest businesses and other global figures in politics, entertainment, and sport. The leaks show how deeply the offshore financial system is entangled with the political players, private wealth, and corporate giants that avoid taxes through increasingly imaginative accounts techniques. At Anh Thomas Investment, we use external consultants in add