Commentary on special events in Thailand and the SET Index.
Jeremy Grantham of GMO is another must read quarterly letter, this time around he writes about the dreams of opportunities, cultural differences, the potential of the biggest M&A boom to come and how equity markets are still likely to do fine, even though he expects returns to be sub-par on a 7 year basis. Enjoy. […]
Read More →Well that was fun morning session with the NCPO announcing a postponement for the 4G, specifically that it would auction in July next year 25 MHz of bandwidth on the 1800 MHz spectrum and 17.5 MHz on the 900 MHz spectrum. What happened? Well let’s have a look @ the charts. The telco sector is […]
Read More →Union Intraco gains face with expansion into cosmetics and personal care Union Intraco Plc (UIC) is a MAI-listed trader, developer and distributor of specialty chemicals. Chief executive Perajad Suwannapasri discusses the company’s outlook. Perajad: UIC looking for new opportunities What is UIC’s business model? 2014 is a year of change for UIC in terms of […]
Read More →Yesterday the junta/government decided to waive visa fee’s for 3 months as part of an attempt to revive tourism. What has happened since, every hotel stock (centel, mint, erw) performed well, most airline names (aav, thai, nok) have performed ok too. Now this isn’t the first time that Thailand has done something to boost tourism, […]
Read More →A wonderful op-ed over @ the FT (link below) where El-Erian discusses the relationship between investors and economists and arguably how economists aren’t necessarily the best sources of information when making investment decisions. Enjoy the read 🙂 Judging by past experience, economists are not well placed to make confident predictions about the risk of greater […]
Read More →Talks between the Finance Ministry and the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations (Fetco) over renewing tax deductions for investment in long-term equity fund (LTFs) remain inconclusive, making it likely the rule will be reduced or scrapped. Source: Bangkok Post LTF’s and RMFs had dramatically changed the Asset Management industry structure in Thailand since inception. […]
Read More →With Thai Bond yields and the Baht strengthening to 3.19% and 32.13 this morning, we had a quick look @ how much has been bought in the past 3 weeks. Basically we’ve seen (see charts below) foreign investors buy up some THB 15 bn in the past 3 weeks and in the same period the market […]
Read More →It’s monthly/quarterly paper time from all the major asset managers and Byron Wein of Blackstone should be on anyone’s reading list. In his latest “The Smartest Man in Europe” there are several interesting discussion points ranging from a new industrial revolution to Europe’s political weakness to viewpoints on specific emerging countries, all in all a […]
Read More →Being #2 isn’t the end of the world, being part of the top 10 is still already something; now there are the usual two opposing sides of discussion, one that “Oh this is the beginning of the end for Thailand’s tourism” or “This is just a bump in the continued growth of Thailand’s tourism market.” I’m […]
Read More →I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Heinecke on two occasions and have been following MINT (its former ticker was RGR when I started working) and I’ve seen how MINT has grown and grown and grown to the point where Central Group mimic’s their business model with Centel, to the point where almost every Thai […]
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