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).

South Series (Part 5): Phuket Cruise Crisis and Sino-Thai Tourism

Thai Strategy 2019 (Part 1): Themes and Risks

Thai Strategy 2019 (Part 2): Sector Outlooks

South Series (Part 2): Here Comes The Flood

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Thailand Communications equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Revenge of the Sidh. On Tuesday, a bomb went out in Pattani at Big C hypermarket, one of the small province's most popular places to congregate. Moments later, another bomb went out at same location. There were 56 injured (wouldn't be surprised if most of them were Muslims given the province's population composition). We don't know how many casualties there are yet, because it's always possible that people die from their wounds couple of days or weeks later. Despite the relatively large damage…

Revenge of the Sidh. On Tuesday, a bomb went out in Pattani at Big C hypermarket, one of the small province's most popular places to congregate. Moments later, another bomb went out at same location. There were 56 injured (wouldn't be surprised if most of them were Muslims given the province's population composition). We don't know how many casualties there are yet, because it's always possible that people die from their wounds couple of days or weeks later. Despite the relatively large damage…

South Series (Part 3): Big C Bombing...Ouch!