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).

Thoughts on Amazon –What Does Its Valuation Tells Us?

Netflix & Amazon Expand in Korea – Not a Coincidence

Okja: The Fight Between Netflix Vs. CJ CGV

Event-Driven

The Deal: Tuna &amp; Lobster. Yesterday, Thai Union, the world's largest seafood company which we first profiled in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/food-fight-cpf-vs-tu" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:5498">Food Fight: CPF Vs TU</a> , announced that they would buy a 25% stake in the world's biggest seafood restaurant chain, Red Lobster, for US$575m. We read a report by Thailand's second largest broker (and potential market leader if what we explained in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/sathorn-series-6-disappearing-deutsche-breakaway-brokers" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:6214">Sathorn Series 6: Disappearing Deutsche, Breakaway Brokers</a> pans out), and  like us they are fairly positive on this. The stock is trading at…

The Deal: Tuna &amp; Lobster. Yesterday, Thai Union, the world's largest seafood company which we first profiled in Food Fight: CPF Vs TU , announced that they would buy a 25% stake in the world's biggest seafood restaurant chain, Red Lobster, for US$575m. We read a report by Thailand's second largest broker (and potential market leader if what we explained in Sathorn Series 6: Disappearing Deutsche, Breakaway Brokers pans out), and  like us they are fairly positive on this. The stock is trading at…

Thai Union Group

Some (Red) Lobster to Go with that Tuna?