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Danai Pathomvanich Oct 21, 2014 With the ubiquitous arrival of low-cost smart-phones, Asian investors are suddenly realizing that businesses targeting millions of lower-income consumers can be very profitable. Up until now, vast numbers of lower-incoming citizens have been massively underserved by conventional banking and insurance sectors. Today, in parts of Africa and Asia, mobile-based financial…

Danai Pathomvanich Sep 22, 2014 Danai Pathomvanich looks at the advent of Asian family offices Three decades of unprecedented Asia economic growth have resulted in the development of family offices. Wealthy families use them to mitigate substantial risks that may occur when they make the critical transition from building family wealth to sustaining it. Family…

Danai Pathomvanich Oct 15, 2014 The US Federal Reserve’s policy to keep benchmark rates at 0.25 per cent until 2015 has given rise to non-traditional alternative US investments that can provide stable bond-like returns at much higher yield. Because of expected continuing low-yields from traditional bond funds, many institutional investors are turning to other types…

Danai Pathomvanich Sep 22, 2014 An often overlooked critical post-M&A shareholders task is determining the company’s new board of directors’ optimal composition. In Asia and particularly ASEAN, many companies that successfully attracted overseas institutional investors are now adding independent directors that can specifically address forward-looking long-term issues that are crucial to their business’s future prosperity.…