Your Investment Guide to Thailand

"Your Investment Guide to Thailand" is essential reading for foreign investors as well as anyone considering relocating or retiring in Thailand. It focuses not only on wealth creation, but also the protection of existing assets. It introduces the major investment choices in Thailand - real estate, gold, stocks, bonds, managed funds, and investment in a business - and gives details of past performance and investment procedures. Your Investment Guide to Thailand also provides advice for people moving to Thailand, including legal issues like visas and work permits, and an overview of key economic, political, and social trends, illustrated with easy-to-read tables, graphs, and checklists supported by real-life examples. A wide range of questions are discussed: Can foreigners buy Thai stocks? How? Can foreigners buy property in Thailand? What rules apply? How much money can I bring into Thailand? What is the best way to do it? How do I choose a good broker/bank manager/fund manager? How can I choose investments? The book adopts a critical and unapologetic approach to Thai investment opportunities, exposing potential risks and benefits to ensure the selection of the most appropriate investments. Bruce Bickerstaff has more than twenty years' experience in professional and management roles in both the Australian government and private sectors. Over the past decade he has been an active investor and part-time resident of the Kingdom. Korn Chatikavanij is the Finance Minister of Thailand.