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).

Sathorn Series H: A Primer to the Structure of Thai Financial Services Industry

Sathorn Series I: TMB's PartialDivestment & The Laos Flood Spillover

Introduction to Islamic Investing (Theory)

Asean (Thailand) Focused Independent Research

M Corp Review

M Corp is led by Athaporn Arayasantiparb who 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 17 years, of which 14 were in research and 4 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 provides six on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely: 1) Silicon Stories (technology) 2) Sathorn Series (financial services) 3) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin stories) 4) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative) 5) Thai Media Spotlight; and 6) Thai Macro Watch (global market drivers).

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Thailand Financials / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p style="text-align: left;">We attended a series of lectures by an SCB executive <strong>Danai Aroonkittichai </strong>recently, and while we're not bond gurus ourselves, it's interesting to share some of his thoughts. We're not gonna bore you to death with all plain/technical stuff like plain-vanilla bonds, conventions, duration, and convexity. Instead, let's talk about the five new kinds of bonds. Some of their Thai examples were even highlighted. We think they have a role in better capital allocation and may help increase the value of…</p>

We attended a series of lectures by an SCB executive Danai Aroonkittichai recently, and while we're not bond gurus ourselves, it's interesting to share some of his thoughts. We're not gonna bore you to death with all plain/technical stuff like plain-vanilla bonds, conventions, duration, and convexity. Instead, let's talk about the five new kinds of bonds. Some of their Thai examples were even highlighted. We think they have a role in better capital allocation and may help increase the value of…

Sathorn Series G: SCB on Bonds