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From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.