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Asia is the largest continent in the world. With some 4 billion people residing here, it contains over 60% of the world’s population.

Here’s the good news: Wealth is also coming to Asia.

Here’s 5 reasons why:

1)   GDP

Since World War II, economic growth in Asia has been nothing short of explosive. According to a recent study by the International Monetary Fund, Asian countries such as Japan, China, India and South Korea already rank amongst the world’s largest GDP nations.

By 2050, according to a 2006 report by Price Waterhouse Cooper, China will have the largest economy in the world (out-pacing USA). It has already surpassed Germany to become the 3rd largest economy in the world (behind USA and Japan).

2)   Foreign Reserves

At the end of 2007, 63.90% of the identified official foreign exchange reserves in the world were held in United States dollars (USD) and 26.5% in Euros. Interestingly however, the countries with the largest foreign reserves are mostly in Asia. These include China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India and Singapore.

Additionally, according to a recent study done in 2008, Asian countries featured in a whopping 8 out of the World’s Top 10 Monetary Authorities with the largest foreign reserves. Outside of Asia, only Brazil and Germany featured in the Top 10.

This increasingly means that the interchangeability of the Euro, USD, and British Pound are heavily influenced by Asian central banks.

3)   High Net-Worth Individuals

Asia’s High Net-Worth Individual (HNWI) population grew to 2.6 million in 2006, an increase of 8.6 percent, according to the second annual Asia-Pacific Wealth Report. Asia-Pacific currently accounts for 27.1 percent of the global HNWI population. The wealth of Asia-Pacific HNWIs totaled U.S. $8.4 trillion in 2006, an increase of 10.5 percent over 2005. HNWI wealth was concentrated in Japan and China, which accounted for 43.7 percent and 20.6 percent, respectively, of the region’s total wealth.

The latest Asia-Pacific Wealth Report took an in-depth look at the high net worth population and behaviourial patterns in several key Asian markets. It showed that the Asian countries of China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan account for over 90% of the region’s 2.6 million HNWIs.

4)   Exponential Growth of Broadband Internet Connectivity

In recent years, the number of internet-enables users has exploded all over Asia. Asia now boasts the largest internet population in the world. Out of an estimated 1.5 billion internet users in the world, approximately 800 million users are from Asia.

With the booming growth of internet users in Asia, there is a huge, untapped potential for guided education in the online trading community.

5)   Strategic Location & Strength of Singapore

All right I’m biased cos I live in Singapore.

The strategic location of Singapore in between two of the world’s most populous and fastest growing economies, namely India and China. Singapore is also the world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City and Tokyo.

It is also the 5th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita. As of September 2009, the foreign exchange reserves of Singapore stood at around USD182 billion.

The next decade will record the largest wealth transfer to Asia in the history of the world. Asia is poised to be the centre of world-wide wealth.

Hear the words of some of the top honchos in the corporate/financial world:

1)   “The time has come when Asia has to become a consumer in its own right.” – Rajat Nag, Managing Director, Asian Development Bank

2)   “The 21st century is going to be the century of China” – Jim Rogers, billionaire investor currently residing in Singapore

3) “Emerging economies are expected to account for more than half of the world’s GDP growth over the next decade.” – Dr. Tony Tan, Deputy Chairman, GIC

Now imagine this. Wealth is coming to Asia; and we are on the platform of the LARGEST financial market in the world – FOREX.

All we have to do is to step FIRMLY on this platform called FOREX, and the wave of wealth will sweep us all into financial prosperity if we will only recognise this immense power.

This is leverage in its highest, purest form.