Bangkok--15 May--Maybank Kim Eng
Maybank Kim Eng (Thailand) reiterates its leadership in brokerage business by upgrading its quality research while conducting activities to educate investors throughout the year. With top-notch analysts and efficient market strategy to reap the best out of the upswing cycle of the stock market, it is positioning itself as accessible first-class investment information center to serve all types of investors.
Mr. Sukit Udomsirikul, Managing Director and Head of Research at Maybank Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) or MBKET, said the company has been the top brokerage in Thailand for 11 straight years, providing financial services that include stock and derivative brokerage, private wealth management, and offshore trading. The company currently has over 12.79% market share, with average daily turnover of approximately Bt 14,035 mn. It has 133,000 total accounts while the half is active. Its individual clients are 92% of total clients and the remainder is institutional and foreign clients.
Maybank Kim Eng believes the accessibility of timely, accurate, and complete information is crucial tool for making the right investment decision in order to beat the market. Therefore, the company sets priority in the quality of its research paper and the paper presentation. To enhance the efficiency of the research team under the concept “timely, accurate, and accessible”, output of the research team will become more solid with larger coverage. The team is fully-equipped with quality investment strategists, fundamental analysts, and technical analysts covering all key sectors including commerce, food, media, energy and utilities, petrochemical and chemical, transportation, property, banking and finance, technology and electronics. The team also analyzes of derivatives market, gold futures, and other derivatives products as well as top picks in offshore markets.
The Research team presents constant insight data and research notes to investors daily prior to market openings in both the morning and afternoon sessions through internet TV channel KELIVE TV. This channel allows more comprehensive understanding of investment situation as investors can listen and watch the analysis, especially on technical front by giving them a clear visual of the graphs under discussion. The online broadcast can be found at http://kelive.maybank-ke.co.th through kelive website, Facebook, and Twitter. The new format of monthly report will provide greater substances that cover 140 listed companies while the team also plans to expand its coverage to outstanding stocks in the MAI.
The latest activity that will soon be initiated is educating sessions for investors “Investment Tips by Sukit”, which will analyze overall market situation and the most recent investment and financial trends. The sessions, open for investors and the press free of charge, will take place every first Wednesday of each month at Maybank Kim Eng trading floor on 21th floor, The Offices @ Central World. Another program “Sukit Talk” will run every Wednesday to provide in-depth analysis both fundamentally and technically as well as overall market trend and attractive movement of individual stocks and derivative products. The program will present discussions with analysts, who will recommend easy-to-understand investment strategies. It can be found on the company’s website in the form of internet TV with archives of previous sessions.
Another activity is the Research Roadshow, which will regularly bring analysts in the team to meet with investors in the provinces. The Research Department also joined hands with leading education institutions to provide investment perspectives to students to create a new wave of investors. The team also gives frequent lectures on investment to organizations and education institutions while working with the MAI to expand institutional investor base as well as arranging “Listed companies meet investors” events on its trading floor to provide information of interesting listed firms to investors.
“With fully-equipped research team that covers all key industries both in domestic and foreign markets, we aim to upgrade our research quality to meet with international standard. We target to provide all types of Thai investors, including individual, institutional, and new wave investors, with accurate, precise, and timely information in order to help them make the right investment decision and effectively beat the market,” Mr. Sukit said.