Research on Thai Markets in general and the SET Index
Thought this would be interesting for some readers here. Thailand’s equities are very open for individual foreign investors because they are treated the same as individual thai investors in terms of taxes with zero percent capital gains tax and 10% tax on dividends. Thai taxes applicable to investors in listed companies are as outlined below:
Read More →Comments: AIS and Intuch have been keeping the market because of Intuch’s plan to sell part of its stake in AIS to Singtel, and then probably pay a massive dividend to itself (Temasek), talk about going from left pocket to right pocket. The other sectors haven’t moved much in the past week still too many […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from our resident queen chartist Ploy. She still thinks that the markets are at crossroads and that we should keep a watchful eye at the THB/USD and resistance points for the SET, DAX and DJIA. The SET enters the 10th-15th November cycle resistance with a deep plunge at opening on the 10th November. […]
Read More →A little exercise we like to perform is to see how the market has performed historically and to note if there are any trends. Especially given the fact that since the bottom in October when the market was 850, the rally was primarily driven by foreign investors and we wanted to see if there was […]
Read More →Comments: The past week has been all about the Greeks acting democratic and the flood crisis in Thailand continuing. Only two industry sectors are still positive for the year and now we finally understand why ADVANC has remained so strong as INTUCH (formerly SHIN , owned by Temasek and holds 42.5% of ADVANC) will look […]
Read More →In my relatively short investment career in Thailand, I’ve seen the country experience the bird flu pandemic, tsunami in phuket, military coups, capital controls, riots, global financial crisis, swine flu, more riots, airport shut down, and yet this wonderfully silly country just somehow seems to always recover both in terms of economic performance and stock […]
Read More →Latest thoughts from our resident Queen Chartist, Ploy. She was spot on last week with the change in sentiment and still forecasts a recovery until mid-November. I wrote this comment after having arranged piles of sandbags around my house, located only 200 metres away from the Chao Phraya River. We really should have Futures contracts […]
Read More →Given that much of the news over the past four weeks has been either about the Euro Debt Crisis or the Flooding in Thailand not many market commentators nor analysts have spoken much about how the new government’s policies are going to impact the market here. Within the past two weeks the government has ratified […]
Read More →Commentary: Year to date the Technology sector is still the best performer due to the Telco’s remaining buoyant on the back to potential 3G licensing to come through. Industrials are obviously the worst performers because of the flood crisis in Thailand. But we feel that there are good undervalued companies in this sector now because […]
Read More →I love investing in small & mid cap stocks (SMC’s) in Thailand. I was first exposed to researching them back in 2006 when the fund I was with realised that none of us were very good traders of large caps, and that we were far better researchers of companies and industries. Since then I’ve never […]
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