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).

Star Petroleum Placement - Just PTT Clearing up Their Remaining Shares in SPRC

SPRC (SPRC TB): Beneficiary of Strong Refining Margin

Big Brother (Season Premiere): Empire of Oil

Three of a Kind: Jeans, Glasses, and Cameras

Equity Bottom-Up

Star Petroleum Refining / Equity Bottom-Up

Son of Chevron. PTT is by far the mightiest business group in Thailand's oil &amp; gas sector, but there is one refiner that isn't owned by PTT, and that's SPRC or Star Petroleum, yo. In fact, the star signfies Caltex, a Chevron subsidiary, and earlier Chevron went all out to buy out PTT from this crown jewel even as it sold some of its oil fields in Thailand to PTT, such as Hess. Anyway, SPRC only has a capacity of 165,000 bbl/day (barrels per day), so it's much smaller than Thai Oil, PTT's…

Son of Chevron. PTT is by far the mightiest business group in Thailand's oil &amp; gas sector, but there is one refiner that isn't owned by PTT, and that's SPRC or Star Petroleum, yo. In fact, the star signfies Caltex, a Chevron subsidiary, and earlier Chevron went all out to buy out PTT from this crown jewel even as it sold some of its oil fields in Thailand to PTT, such as Hess. Anyway, SPRC only has a capacity of 165,000 bbl/day (barrels per day), so it's much smaller than Thai Oil, PTT's…

Golden Land Property Development (GOLD TB)

STAR: Biggest Refiner Outside the PTT Group