subject: Some See Container Investments As A Stock Market Alternative [print this page] As a result of years and years of deceitful packaging, repackaging, insuring and reinsuring of high risk loans and poor investments, the world's economies have plummeted into a recession; and many people are feeling the pressures of an uncertain future. Most stand helpless, and at the mercy of greedy, corporate bankers and politicians. As a result, many people are apprehensive and unsure about the traditional approaches to investing their money and planning for the future, and are actively seeking an alternative to the traditional investment options; like stock markets, bonds and mutual funds.
In the weeks and months leading up to the decline of many of the world's economic markets, the people who thought they had secured the safe investments and managed a diversified financial portfolio, quickly realized that most of their investments where made up of the same stock interests; that were suffering repeated market losses. Most investors then began to recognized, that this were the ingredients for financial ruin, not success.
After being fooled in the past, apprehensive investors are seeking investment opportunities, that make meaningful and long-term contributions to rebuilding their personal wealth, as well as the global economy, while preserving their investment principle; and providing a safe investment for their hard-earned money. In this case, success for careful investors is best be achieved, by investing in an industry has demonstrated it can successfully balance the pressures, of international supply and demand.
A majority of financial experts and economists from around the world, seem to agree that the growth of developing third world countries, is driving consumer demand across the globe; especially in areas like the Asia Pacific region. As a result, international shipping companies have obligations to satisfy the growing demands of their clients, and as such are required to ship containers every day if necessary; to and from busy ports around the world. With that being said, stop for a moment and think about the number of shipping containers that are necessary (on a daily basis), to supply the shipping industry's obligations; to new and existing customers. As you can imagine, the demand for containers is enormous, and continues to grow steadily; year in and year out. In fact, economists and financial experts have forecasted a steady growth of 7 to 8 percent per year, and expect the trend to continue; for many years to come.
The profits to be made in this part of the industry, are not exclusive only to the shipping and container management/leasing companies. There are container investing companies, that offer investors an opportunity to own the valuable containers, that important global goods are packaged, stored and shipped in. Some investors see this approach, as a safe means of diversifying a portfolio's focus, and a great way to include investments; in more global marketplaces.
