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).

The New Thai-Coons (Part 2): Class of 2017

IPO Radar: CHAYO, the Next JMT (Debt Collection Biz)

BCH (BCH TB): Social Security Mixed with Upscale Health Care

Thai-Coons (Season Finale): Two Brothers on a Flying Train

Silicon September 1.0: Ride Hailing and Autonomous Driving

TFG: Poultry and Swine Producer Gets Lean for Fat Earnings

TFG: Poultry and Swine Producer Focused on Efficiency

Equity Bottom-Up

Every now and then, there are a couple of new tycoons we missed out on the Forbes list, which gets updated around mid-year. In this two-part series, we highlight a couple of them from the 2017 list yo. Of course, they are lesser-known newer ones, and the origin stories won’t merit a new article on its own, but here goes.Rise of the lessors. Two leasing tycoons showed up on this list in 2017. The mightier of the two is MTLS. This is the country’s biggest auto leasing company, and we actually…

Every now and then, there are a couple of new tycoons we missed out on the Forbes list, which gets updated around mid-year. In this two-part series, we highlight a couple of them from the 2017 list yo. Of course, they are lesser-known newer ones, and the origin stories won’t merit a new article on its own, but here goes.Rise of the lessors. Two leasing tycoons showed up on this list in 2017. The mightier of the two is MTLS. This is the country’s biggest auto leasing company, and we actually…

Thai Foods Group Public Company Limited (TFG TB)

The New Thai-Coons (Part I): Class of 2017

Carabao Group

The New Thai-Coons (Part I): Class of 2017