Asean-focused. Ex-Head of Thai Research

Athaporn Arayasantiparb, CFA

Athaporn served as Head of Research for UOB and ANZ in Thailand and was an award-winning telecoms analyst at UBS in 2010 (AsiaMoney Thailand category) and Regional Strategist for DMG in Singapore. Prior to that, he also served as Kasikornbank credit analyst and scholar. He has a total work experience of 22 years, of which 19 were in research and 9 in research management roles. He started his career as an engineer for PTT and currently manages family investments. He holds an MBA from Stern (NYU) and CFA Charter since 2006.

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1) Snippets (news-driven);
2) Sathorn Series (financial services);
3) Silicon Stories (technology); 
4) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin series);
5) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative);
6) Thai Media Spotlight;
7) Political Pit Stop; 
8) Telecom Review; 
9) Thai Macro Watch (read-through from foreign events);  
10) Small Cap Diary; and
11) Property Grid

There are also 3 limited-time series driven by specific events or locations, namely:
1) Thai Corona Crisis;
2) South Series; and
3) Mechanics and Details (deal forensics).

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Equity Bottom-Up

Samui Airport Property Fund / Equity Bottom-Up

Thailand accounts for almost half the ASEAN tourism receipts, but further expansion at AOT's key Suvanabhummi Airport will be slow due to the civil servant's culture still looming at large. We prefer to look at Samui Airports (SPF), a monopoly at one of Thailand's hottest tourist spot controlled by a much more expensive parent company Bangkok Airways (BA).In the airline space, check out Asia Aviation (AAV), which operates Air Asia in Thailand. The company is revolutionizing Thai airline industry, having grown low-cost travel tenfolds over the last decade and marginalizing legacy flag carrier Thai Airways (THAI). Also, we suspect Tony Fernandes has grand design of building his own airports in Thailand. Scroll down and find out: 1) why we sold BA, a really well run boutique airline; 2) why AAV is the only Thai-based airline stock being closely watched for potential investment at MCorp Review; and 3) what we think about the King Power deal with AAV.

Thailand accounts for almost half the ASEAN tourism receipts, but further expansion at AOT's key Suvanabhummi Airport will be slow due to the civil servant's culture still looming at large. We prefer to look at Samui Airports (SPF), a monopoly at one of Thailand's hottest tourist spot controlled by a much more expensive parent company Bangkok Airways (BA).In the airline space, check out Asia Aviation (AAV), which operates Air Asia in Thailand. The company is revolutionizing Thai airline industry, having grown low-cost travel tenfolds over the last decade and marginalizing legacy flag carrier Thai Airways (THAI). Also, we suspect Tony Fernandes has grand design of building his own airports in Thailand. Scroll down and find out: 1) why we sold BA, a really well run boutique airline; 2) why AAV is the only Thai-based airline stock being closely watched for potential investment at MCorp Review; and 3) what we think about the King Power deal with AAV.

Aviators & Airports: The Ongoing Revolution