Special Interest investments: Bird Nest Eco Park
I purchased a unit of interest in this venture sometime last year. So far, they've made good their promise of the 1st year return which is in the form of their products (retail value of RM800). Well, you know, bird nest has a high perceived value (even to me, especially on the health & beauty aspect! Yes, I'm vain). Now that the issue with exporting bird nest products to China is more or less sorted out, it should bode well. I think I kinda like buying more 'exotic' investments e.g. bullion, bird nest (oh yeah, the return on my fave shopping mall REIT was unexpected and not bad, think it works out to be around a 6% return pa). Why the birds nest investment? Culturally significant luxury food item to the Chinese (Japanese & Koreans too, I think. And if not, it's not a stretch of the imagination for them to latch onto it too.) Only available from South East Asia - the swiftlets that produce this do not live anywhere else - don't even think it can...