World Stock Market Value 1999-2009

Things change and keep changing – in finance as well as in life.

In the last few years Australia has done very well to steer a steady path through the financial issues rocking the economies of most of the rest of the developed world, and that world itself is changing.

Take a look at the graphs below which compare the composition of world stock markets in 1999 and 2009, showing the growing importance of Asia (ex-Japan) over this period.

The middle class of Asia is emerging and at full strength will be almost half the world’s population.  An opportunity on our doorstep!