Financial talk in Aberdeen Fund House

Went down to Aberdeen Fund House for investment seminar. It focused more on analyzing current market situation and explained some reasons behind their recommended markets - Singapore, GEM and Europe. Perhaps to share with more who are interested

Singapore
- Strong corporate governance
- Stable government
- Anticipating steady growth for next few years
- Moving up the Food Chain - going into more value added services that will bring growth for the next few years

GEM (Global emerging market)
- Hmm... Actually, I'm don't really recall the key points for GEM but GEM is still growing and will provide potential upside for the portfolio

Europe
- Self sufficient economy, hence less affect from the sliding economy of US
- Economic restructuring; eg France. Promoting economic renewal
- Region is developed hence a culture of strong cooperate governance

This seminar also gave me the opportunity to talk with the fund managers. What i felt from them is that the market is in a situation where value buys are harder to find. Hmm - prepared a sum of money for stock investment; really need to look hard to find good buys that I can hold on the next few years.

Aside from the tips on market sentiments and stuff, there's also some refreshments as well as dark chocolate from Swiss - haha, my favorite.