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).

Snippets#5: Trump Vs Techdom, Clash of the Titans

Snippets#6: CENTEL's KFC Bid, Trump's Flabby Dollar$

Snippets#3: Thailand's New Debt Crisis? Hmm...Maybe Not

Snippets#2: Most Profitable Bank's Best Year

Equity Bottom-Up

Seven Utilities and Power / Equity Bottom-Up

From MLink to Ferrum. One company that has followed steps outlined in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/turnarounds-finding-a-phoenix-in-the-land-of-the-dead" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:8194">Turnarounds: Finding A Phoenix In the Land of the Dead</a> is Ferrum. The company, previously known as M-Link, is part of the Shinawatra empire ( <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/thai-coons-ep-8-thaksin-business-genius-or-political-provacateur" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:6478">Thai-Coons Ep. 8: Thaksin...Business Genius or Political Provacateur?</a>) and at one point the largest distributor of mobile phones in the country, but that's a dying business yo, so under the new CEO, they:<ul><li>
Tranformed the business from mobile phone distribution to energy sector via…</li></ul>

From MLink to Ferrum. One company that has followed steps outlined in Turnarounds: Finding A Phoenix In the Land of the Dead is Ferrum. The company, previously known as M-Link, is part of the Shinawatra empire ( Thai-Coons Ep. 8: Thaksin...Business Genius or Political Provacateur?) and at one point the largest distributor of mobile phones in the country, but that's a dying business yo, so under the new CEO, they:
Tranformed the business from mobile phone distribution to energy sector via…

Snippets#4: Ferrum's Transformation from Phones to Power Plants