Anurag Agnihotri

Asia in recent years has grown to be a strategically important region for wealth management businesses in terms of the rising number of investors there as well as the availability of investment products where funds can be channeled.

Wealth management in Asia has also evolved into the global arena by providing an Asian channel for foreign investors as well as making foreign investment products available to Asian investors.

As one of the fastest growing regions in the world today—and concurrently the most populous region and a region where poverty is still prevalent—Asia is no stranger to the limitations, problems and negative externalities of growth and poverty.

Asian policymakers cannot seek to limit themselves to economic growth alone precisely because other issues must be dealt with in order for the region to truly enjoy bona fide improvements.

With the increasing encroachment of social networks into the workspace and the increasing popularity of cloud-computing solutions, it should come as no surprise, say commentators, that online privacy and security issues are coming to the fore in Asia.

Amidst the prevalent global network se¬curity threats, Asia Pacific Managed System Security rose to the occasion and emerged victorious in terms of growth and popularity. According to the article entitled “Escalating Security Threats Trigger Growth in the Asia Pacific Managed Security Services” posted on www.research¬andmarkets.com, such success was due to the fact that more and more organizations cannot handle the complexity of running an efficiency of Security System Management.

The largest retailer in Europe is making waves in China and Latin America. Carrefour just recently announced, that this year’s first quarter showed a significant in¬crease in growth in both China and Latin America. The company is proud of the 34 percent market growth. Additionally, the website reported the opening of 16 hypermarkets, 22 supermarkets and 77 hard discount stores.

Technological developments have such a powerful impact on society and have often been the catalysts for major global changes.

The term nanotechnology conjures up something very small in size to be measured in the range of nanometers. It is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale, according to popular definitions given by experts in the field.

When the technology became popular two decades ago the aim was to build machines as small as possible or just a few nanometers wide. Scientists and engineers wanted to make motors, robot arms and even computers on a molecular scale. This was considered to be weird and only later did the technology gain some acceptance.