The Thai stock exchange says its doing a fine job attracting ample savings into the local stock market. Here is some evidence showing some key facts/shortcomings on this important subject.
Increasingly, in recent years one can notice more investment advisors/managers and brokers who only evaluate graphs for their buy/hold/sell decisions.
There is no doubt that this is because these types are not very astute, educated or informed in knowing and understanding the companies in which they advocate investing in. Perhaps because they want the...
Regardless of how you value shares, Thai stocks are currently among the best-values around the world. This should strike the rational global investor as odd because Thailand also ranks among a fastest growing economy.
Amateurs and/or fast concluders may think it has to do with political risk or problems in the...
As of April 12 "04, some 154 listed SET companies are participating in the auto-dividend deposit program. Still, most investors take their Thai dividends the old fashion way, through registered post mail. *** According to the TSD, 993,083 individual investors where eligible for dividend payments in the year...
I have been asked what in my view the current top 7 stock picks would be. Do you have an updated dividend lists? SET Company hand book long gone missing.
With all the SET seminars and promotionals can't they publish a basic stock book? So to help people at large...
Some things never cease to amaze me. On occasion when I read the local daily newspaper, I often come away in awe on the regular dose of SET related confusing nonsense; which is too often tolerated and nurtured by the local business press.
The concern among regulators and economists is that after 30 years, the Stock Exchange of Thailand is still little more than a casino. Short-term stampedes, potentially devastating to any small savers who venture into the market, they say, also risk diverting investors from deserving companies seeking to raise funds.
One of these days, just when most will have given-up, there will be a reversal and the SET will charge upwards. It will happen when there is maximum frustration and or maximum boredom, by the traders and some investors alike.... (my ending words just before the end of the first quarter...