Does money grow on trees?

If you are a Malaysian or an Indonesian, you may have the tendency to believe that it does. To me, the answer is more evocative recently as I drove to Melaka for a short holiday on the North-South Expressway (NSE). For most parts of the journey, I see nothing else but … Oil Palm Trees.

In Malaysia, palm oil is practically the nation’s money-printing machine, a cash cow so valuable that the entire industry is worth hundreds of billions in Ringgit today. Awesome, isn’t it? Not quite … unless I know how an ‘true urbanite’ like myself can have some skin in the game and profit from palm oil without having the expertise of managing a palm oil estate.

The fastest and most direct answer I can think of is … Invest in shares of a well managed Plantation stock.

In this article, I’ll share ...