Hedge funds practically cannot invest in smaller cap value shares, take beefy yet not unresonable fees...that is OK, but only if they are above average & proven money managers. Such fees are the industry standard for managing money, not just hedge funds. Here is short review/update on this explosive industry....
Here is a timely article on how a foreigner to Thailand can get started investing in what appear to be well undervalued Thai shares. The SET benchmark index, just now around 700, is so at a lower levels then at year end of 2003 and beginning of 2004.
The unending tension between preserving forces of tradition and the transforming forces of change. Large blue chip companies are often defined as being large and dominant and so viewed as "more stable", yet as the record shows they are nevertheless prone to big risks over time. In Thailand harmony &...
Thailand has a problem. Its currency is too strong as its exporting too much. Here is my one page explanation what the key problems are...and I then pick two stock for you, which should benefit from the rational solution/outcome.
In the past several years, despite impressive investment returns here documented all along, we had equally turbulent times but people seem to forget. Have you? Some local brokers are already now advocating investors favor smaller cap companies this year. As these enjoy a far lower corporate tax rate and besides...
Foreign institutional investors are boycutting Thailand" s SET -and the press is loving the turmoil. The market here appears to have reached its low point.
Bits of general information around Thailand's economy, stock market and other facts gone often under-reported, as seen from this desk on December 12 '06.
