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Financial Investor seminars, or sales pitches?

When/if attending so called Financial Investor seminars.

When attending so called financial seminars do these explain or at least touch on the often smaller cap. stocks investor advantage individuals can have?  Do they explain or at least touch on the often inept or outright conflict of interest many brokers/marketing officers may have towards retail investors?  Do they empower you, as seen from your investment interest;  or are they just gearing up toward selling you some new investor product?  These should be among the real tests on viability, credibility and objective validity of so called flourishing investor conferences...,yet too often turned into a sales pitch in disguise.

Paul A. Renaud.
www.thaistocks.com
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A briefest summary:

Thaistocks.com was always about rational & value investing -since its inception in 1997.  Over the past 3 years, I here stated to be overall Thai stocks' bearish -due to the Thai economy slowing, lack of  SET/Broker real reforms & excess mkt. speculation -not least uninspiring politics. Instead to favor select high dividend stocks, which overall have done well.
As I here identified stock picks to members on quality companies with very high dividends, at often 6-8%.  With my life-long multicultural background and 40+ years of professional investor experience I here since 1997, posted regular added added unbiased comments, company visits, added value investor know how, model portfolios and more.   (See latest articles below).     

I've been analyzing Thai stocks, full time, for over 3 decades...then on April 30 1997, started this web site at the height of the Asian Financial Crisis.  My call to fame was to be maximum bullish on Thai export stocks back then, these soared in value despite the economic downturn -due to Baht depreciation.  I think this web site is the longest running of any here in any field.

Presently Thailand has the highest so called "yield gap" anywhere along with a very firm Baht currency.  Meaning, inflation is 0% (the world's lowest) while Thai banks barely pay 0.3% interest on Bank savings accounts.  Yet,...

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