Bangkok--6 Nov--SET
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) organizes its 10th anniversary of SET in the City, holding the biggest investment fair in Bangkok during November 20-23 under the concept “The year of investment to change your life forever”. The four-day event will be full of seminars, workshops and meetings joined by over 100 leading financial firms to share investment expertise on equities, gold futures, mutual funds and insurance for investors and prospects at Paragon Hall, in the heart of Bangkok city.
SET President Kesara Manchusree said that SET in the City, initiated in 2002, would hold its 10th anniversary this year with an aim to continue expanding quality investor base, one of SET’s key missions. Throughout the past 10 years, the Thai capital market has proved its strong growth in several dimensions, such as the fourfold increase of investor accounts to over one million accounts this year, the fivefold surge of daily average trading value to THB 39.47 billion. In addition, market capitalization soared to THB 13.9 trillion, from THB 4.5 trillion, while the amount of mutual fund unit holders rose to 4 million accounts from less than 700,000 accounts in the past ten years with net asset value of THB 3.8 trillion at present. These were remarkable achievements of the capital market due to good collaboration and synergy of all parties in helping boosting investment expertise embracing the SET in the City fair as part of the success. Under the
“The year of investment to change your life forever” concept, the event is expected to inspire and motivate novice investors, enabling them to acquire financial planning that matches their lifestyle, utilizing the global financial situation updates, as well as getting advice from gurus via activities from 100 organizations.
To hold its 10th anniversary event this year and benefit investors through realistic and practical experiences, “The year of investment to change your life forever” has been designed to reflect the Thai capital market’s movements, exhibited by SET partners’ booths in three zones. These are Next Opportunity to provide intensive seminars from gurus on the capital market outlook, Next Change to update information and give financial advices, and New Experience to provide learning space and trading simulation.
For more information on SET in City 2014, please visit www.set.or.th/setinthecity or Mobile Application “SETactivity”.
For more information, please visit www.set.or.th.
Members of the media should contact the Public Relations Unit, Corporate Communications Dept.: Arada Kultawanich, tel: +66 (0) 2229 2796/ Kanokwan Khemmalai, tel: +66 (0) 2229 2048 .