BALANCED APPROACH
In choosing the Natal area Green Planet has adopted an organic approach to investment in the region. Firstly, in a credit-crisis look for a country with little or no borrowing... ... Brazilian people are free of personal debt, the savings ratio is over 7% compared with a deficit of -3% when looking at the same demographic groups in the UK. Secondly, look for a vibrant young population with a small elderly sector to financially support... ...Half of the Brazilian population is under 25, compared with less than a third in Europe. Thirdly, look for a country with a great deal of natural resources, minerals, agriculture and manufacturing... ... Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world, ...Brazil is the world leader in renewable and sustainable energy, ...Brazil is self-sufficient in oil reserves. ...Brazil is the world’s leading Hydroelectric power provider, ...Brazil has the largest cattle herd in the world, ...Brazil is the world’s largest producer of Sugar, Coffee, Tropical Fruit, Orange Juice, Soybeans and Poultry, ...Brazil has double the foreign currency reserves of the United Kingdom and a superior balance of payments than the UK, the US, Australia and most
of Europe, BUT... Brazil urgently needs to construct over 27 Million homes in the next 10 to 15 years. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies are in a growth phase, like it or not, the reverse is true in many countries in “the West”. Brazil is probably the fastest growing secure economy in the world at present, they have an urgent requirement to build residential homes; Green Planet invests where planning permission has been granted and large commercial and industrial developments are to be sited close by. In many cases we are part of the commercial enterprises themselves and privy to the spatial development programs for the entire region. It is therefore with absolute surety that we invest into land adjacent to planned and approved new airports, refineries, retail shopping centres and industrial nodes. Furthermore 85% of our investment in Brazil is coastal, normally within 100 metres of the ocean. It is virtually impossible to obtain a more secure and risk free land investment.