Today the SEC is in the news mandating welcome changes by the Thai brokers. We should all be delighted, as if/when this happens we will get what all of you want more: good value investor ideas beyond just the same expensive large cap.s.
An informal conversation about Thai peculiar investing, us members, some strategy and one new stock idea. We are all in this together -and so lets stick together.
As economists and others have noted, the middle income trap is a serious risk for Thailand. But few speak/write abou the middle income savings trap, as its equally important and out of balance.
Thai brokers badly need to re-invent themselves to individual investors. This so in becoming new wealth creators, vs. just transaction/trading biased. Individual investors simply do not need the liquidity requirement institutions mandate, so why pay-up for something you don't need?
Here smaller capitalized shares usually pay far higher yearly cash dividends then...
Here are some thoughts into the new week along with an idea revisited. If people are not always coherent and suffer from many biases then so do markets which then are equally not efficient nor always rational.
Beware of hidden biases which then tilts some in not telling you the whole story or worse make-up or twist realities, only so to financially or otherwise benefit from that. That is the very definition what a professional should not do. Yet this seems ever more rampant in this day and age.
Thai SET has large market inefficiencies which should be turned to individual investor advantage! Why do Thai smaller capitalized stocks trade at such discount? The Thai individual investor's -too often untold- real advantage here!
Thai bank interest rates remain ver low -and this for many years already. The SET market has been relatively boyant since the 2008 North Atlantic induced Financial crisis with this benchmark increasing some 30% since. Yet, Thai retail broker account participation remains stagnent. Is anybody there/here asking why this remains so?