The Financial, Insurance & Investment Blog

1. The global coatings industry experienced good growth in 2017 with decorative coatings leading the way in terms of global growth. Automoti...

1. Less than half of FDI went to ‘Make in India’ sectors in FY17 and the first 9 months of FY18, but a lot of these funds may not represent ...

1. Foreign direct investment in manufacturing was $103.7 billion in 2017, accounting for 40% of total expenditures. 2. The total was $259....

1. Pensions funds are responsible for the majority of capital held by the world’s 100 largest asset owners (AO100), placing them among a uni...

1. Two in five British workers aged 46 to 55 do not know how much they have saved for retirement, despite closing in on the age they can acc...

1. A study of every court case related to primary business insurance disagreements between 2013 and 2018 shows that a whopping 68% went in t...

1. Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) offers a range of tax and non-tax incentives to foreign companies making investments that are deeme...

1. Oleochemicals are obtained from bio-based resources, such as animal fats and plant oils, to provide sustainable and high-performance alte...

1. Local oil palm companies are keen to invest further downstream from oleochemicals to oleo derivatives, but many are still hesitant given ...

STAGES OF GROWTH IN CHINA OLEOCHEMICAL INDUSTRY 1. Initial Stage: Before the 1990s, China oleochemical industry mainly developed its home-g...

Continuation from previous posts. Tax incentives offered to the R&D Industry.

Singapore offers a wide range of investment incentives for investors including tax holidays and concessions, accelerated depreciation schem...

Vietnam’s low wages have traditionally provided these cost savings; however, the country has also quietly developed one of the most competit...

1. At the moment diesel sold has a 7% palm oil content and is called B7. The Malaysia government is looking at increasing the blend to B10 t...

1. The B10 blend that was slated to be introduced at petrol stations nationwide consists of 10% palm methyl ester and 90% regular diesel fue...

Information Compiled for Internal Newsletter Circulation Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or  waste   plastic  and...

BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) 1. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that gives architecture,...

1. A feeder vessel is a vessel that “feeds” the large ocean vessels with containers.  2. A feeder port is a port where the large ocean vesse...

1. The “freight villages” (english designation) are called in different ways depending on the country: “Interporti” in Italy; “Transport ...

1. Some countries imports a lot of goods, and these imports must enter the country through a few seaports. Often, these seaports become bott...