Connectedness: The key to unlocking Asia?

Asia is not a monolith. It is heterogeneous, diverse ethnically, culturally, politically, in religious beliefs and in emotional behaviour.

Given this we have spent a lot of time thinking not only about how we as a firm engage with China and more broadly Asia, but also thinking about how Australia as a nation should engage with Asia.

If we ask the C-suite and boards of organisations what they're worried about: they may reply – the global competitiveness of Australia? Whether India is finally on a path to reform? How do we work with China? Can we invest with confidence in Indonesia? And on and on.

A common misconception is that there's only one strategy for dealing and engaging both globally and with Asia. We reject that. There are a multitude of models for engaging globally. Only one of which is through bricks and mortar.