Industry, Economic, General SET

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Thai Stocks performance overall since 2014, is dismal.

Since the current Govt. took over in 2014: if you strip-out DELTA & GULF (2 speculative counters with stratospheric p/e's of 78 and 45) , the SET has done terribly (say around -6 to -7%) over the past 9 years.  During a time USA and other stock markets have doubled, index wise. While...

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Is relationship vs. competence banking/good investor advise, now coming to an end?

Is "relationship banking", as opposed to competence, integrity & objective professional investor advise, stalling?

As a young business student at the University of Wisconsin in the 1970’s, I was made aware of an interesting publication called the “Wall Street Transcript” (WST). It was an A5 size large thick printed paper with perhaps...

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Relationship vs. competence investor practices.

So called "Relationship banking" vs. competence investor practices too often reign in high-tower offices.

Many global financial centers like say Singapore/Zurich/Geneva foremost practice what is called relationship (vs. performance) banking, and it reigns!
Mostly so because of course its difficult if not impossible to predict
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Thai IPO's haywire. Another example.

Master Style Public Company recently IPO's at 46 Baht.  You had to decide between Jan. 17-19th if you wanted any. Yuanta was the broker.  Yet, the selling memorandum was not posted on the SET until Jan. 24th.  Here is the link:  https://weblink.set.or.th/dat/news/202301/23007596 (link is external) Hence a rational investor was in the dark about...

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Thai SET dominated by the punters/speculators.

SET fails rational investors in reigning in the day-trading speculators on being lame on taming (like they do on other companies), the most active punted stock here.

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Always sell when in a bubble. Avoid Thai IPO's for now.

Lots of crying here now by many angry global investors whom failed to nail profits last year when US lead stock/bond markets were clearly exuberant.  Surely its up to investors to at times demand some selling when mkts. are in a bubble.  Regardless of the investor objective. Not just await the...

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IF you can’t beat them, then don’t join them!

IF you can’t beat them, then don’t join them!  Here is what I view doing rational investor wise.

I think the Thai stock market & practices has deteriorated, on various fronts overall, over the past say 7-8 years.  I used to write about its various practice...

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Language interpretations can be made from just about anywhere. SET take note!

The cost of simultaneous interpreting has come way down in recent years, yet for the most part the SET and its listed companies are a "lame duck" on that, to their own detriment!

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Hollywood movies often wrongly portray the US securities industry.

Recently I got this mail from a peron of some standing outside our industry which watched the movie “The Big Short” on Netflix. He was appalled and told me so as it stated its based on a “true story”. 

   Paul, have you watched The Big Short

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