The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) becomes a single market comprised of ten Southeast Asia nations 48 years after the Association was first agreed by its initial members; Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. As 2016 begins, it will herald a new epoch for its members, which now include; Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Cambodia.

These countries and those who invest in them stand to gain from an increasingly integrated and vibrant economic area, where GDP growth has surpassed any other region in the world consistently over the last decade and which continues to do so.