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.

Apart from IPO Radar, which focuses on future listings, MCorp Review also performs financial advisory services for TKC Services and provides 11 other on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely:

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

<p><strong>Gone With the Wind. </strong>We’ve always been bearish on the overall wind farm industry, and there are a few names in this renewable energy space, all of which are trading at insane multiples (EA, GUNKUL, DEMCO). EA, prior to moving from the small-cap bourse (MAI) to the main bourse (SET), actually accounted for half of the MAI, so what’s that about?! In early February, EA was investigated for planning to trespass on natural reserves in order to build their wind farm. In the convoluted manner of Thai…</p>

Gone With the Wind. We’ve always been bearish on the overall wind farm industry, and there are a few names in this renewable energy space, all of which are trading at insane multiples (EA, GUNKUL, DEMCO). EA, prior to moving from the small-cap bourse (MAI) to the main bourse (SET), actually accounted for half of the MAI, so what’s that about?! In early February, EA was investigated for planning to trespass on natural reserves in order to build their wind farm. In the convoluted manner of Thai…

Gone With the Wind: Wind Farms Facing Headwinds

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Gone With the Wind: Wind Farms Facing Headwinds