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).

Small Cap Diary: Little ChewaThai's Big Ambitions

Small Cap Diary: Builders, Miners, and Babies

Hidden Tigers (Episode 2): The Three-Pronged Family Empire

Reality Check III: Is This Time to Sell Thai Property?

Hidden Tigers (Season Premiere): Chocolate Ship Donuts

Equity Bottom-Up

<p>We met up with two companies today, namely a contractor TRC and a property developer called Thana Siri. Both are pipsqueak companies, and that's OK. What is more irksome is their messed-up presentation style and bizzare stories yo. Even then, these stocks trade at multiples of more than 30x, which just goes to show what happens when retail investors dominate the markets. You can usually promise them the world, and they probably can't tell chocolate from sh...sugar candy. OK, now that we got your…</p>

We met up with two companies today, namely a contractor TRC and a property developer called Thana Siri. Both are pipsqueak companies, and that's OK. What is more irksome is their messed-up presentation style and bizzare stories yo. Even then, these stocks trade at multiples of more than 30x, which just goes to show what happens when retail investors dominate the markets. You can usually promise them the world, and they probably can't tell chocolate from sh...sugar candy. OK, now that we got your…

TRC Construction

Small Cap Diary: Potash...Seriously?!