Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
I’ve been writing these interviews for the Bangkok Post and now ACN Newswire for the past decade with what has basically been the same generic question list of biz model, financials, industry, differentiation, risk, 5 years. And every once in a while I’ll add the history, AEC and an industry specific question. But what else would you ask? […]
Read More →BANGKOK, Feb 28, 2017Â -Â (ACN Newswire)Â -Â S.Khonkaen Foods Public Company Limited (SET:SORKON) Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Charoen Rujirasopon discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk (TET) by ShareInvestor.com.TET: How are Sorkon’s businesses progressing?In the past few years, we expanded our fishball capacity by 50% from 9,000 tonnes per annum to 15,000 tonnes and is […]
Read More →Well its that time of the year where the oracle of Omaha comes out with his annual letter, so here’s the link to it Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter 2016 Anything interesting in it? I’m still going through it but already on page 4 there are these nuggets of gold Some years, the gains in underlying […]
Read More →Thiensurat PCL (SET:TSR) Expanding throughout Thailand Thiensurat Public Company Limited (SET:TSR) Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ekarat Changyoo discusses the company’s strategy and outlook in The Executive Talk (TET) by ShareInvestor.com. TET: TSR’s business model has evolved over the past few years. Could you explain these developments and why they were made? Our core customers are […]
Read More →Bitcoin Is it possible that bitcoin has replaced gold as the go to safety currency during times of volatility and political turmoil? As ridiculous as this may first sound it may very well be the case when you look at these charts. We’ve seen the dollar go on a massive run in the past few […]
Read More →So its the year of the rooster and CLSA has come out with their usual As the Year of the Rooster dawns, casino shares may be your best bet in Hong Kong… Gambling and transport stocks will kick off the new lunar year on a stellar note, according to CLSA Ltd., an offshore unit of […]
Read More →There’s quite a bit to digest in this latest quarterly letter from GMO, I’ve put in some snippets below but there’s far more thoughts and analysis in the paper itself. The overwhelming driver of the spike in productivity in that decade was the extraordinary growth in production of IT equipment, which grew at 10% real […]
Read More →Mark Mobius @ Franklin Templeton is out with his 4Q review, and here’s his thoughts on Thailand and the link to the article for his thoughts on the rest of the Emerging Markets Thailand could see some weakness in economic activity due to the one-year period of mourning following the passing of its king in […]
Read More →You can see the bank oligopoly in Thailand is still strong. I do wonder how much market share BAY will be able to take away from the traditional big 4 in the coming years. Source: Bloomberg
Read More →Thailand Future Fund Thailand’s future fund is still ongoing developments have been slow in the past 12 months but the government seems to be picking up steam as we have the potential IPO of the Thailand Future Fund coming in April ’17 What projects could it initially injected? Apparently the MoF is targeting to have 2 […]
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