When you buy a property you naturally become the owner of it. Similarly, when you buy stocks you become a owner (of course a shared-owners) of the company that issued these stocks. If you are already a shareholder, you know that some companies pay dividends while others don’t. In fact, companies are not required to pay any dividend to its shareholders. However, some companies decide to do so for a multitude of reasons and some even pay large amounts. In Vietnam, many compani

We have seen in a previous post that there were only three asset types available for non-institutional investors (Once you have ignored the types of investments that require huge initial investments or technical skills way above what an individual can do). These three types of investments are stocks, properties-related investments and savings. Each of these types of investments have sub-categories. For instance, properties investments can fall in residential investments, comm

Viettel is not necessarily a name well known worldwide yet. However, this Vietnamese company keeps expanding abroad and their profits are skyrocketing too. Viettel is Vietnam’s largest mobile network operator and is a state-owned company. The company is expected to be partly privatized in a near future. Viettel has operations in many countries..The company is present in Africa in Cameroon and Burundi for instance but also in South America in countries such as Peru. All of its