Southeast Asia doesn’t get the same amount of attention as China and India, probably because it doesn’t have a single economy that can compare with those two in terms of scale. But if efforts for greater regional cooperation come together over the next few years, it make for a very substantial market and one that investors shouldn’t ignore.

This week’s article for MoneyWeek Asia reviews some of Southeast Asia’s selling points and looks at an interesting start-up fund specialising in the area.