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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<p>The trouble with long-term investing is that it's long. In between, there could be no returns apart from dividends, but you still gotta eat breakfast yo. So despite my focus on long-term investing (we typically hold at least 2 months), one of my analysts called to recommend I buy HANA for the short term. The point is if the greenback remains strong even for a while (because we believe it will eventually correct... <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/times-of-trouble-italy-europe-digital-tv" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:7486">Times of Trouble: Italy, Europe, &amp; Digital TV</a> in H2'17), there's no reason we…</p>

The trouble with long-term investing is that it's long. In between, there could be no returns apart from dividends, but you still gotta eat breakfast yo. So despite my focus on long-term investing (we typically hold at least 2 months), one of my analysts called to recommend I buy HANA for the short term. The point is if the greenback remains strong even for a while (because we believe it will eventually correct... Times of Trouble: Italy, Europe, &amp; Digital TV in H2'17), there's no reason we…

Hana Microelectronics

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