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Expanding the investor base through mutual funds
SET cooperated with the Association of Investment
Management Companies to organize the “Let money work
via mutual funds” project to encourage the new working
generation to start saving and planning to invest their long-
term savings in various mutual funds. The project aimed to
instill monthly investment habits among new investors from
the first day of work under the theme “Transfer savings into
mutual funds” by publishing articles via various media and
organizing activities in Bangkok and suburbs to enable investors to get direct access to information. In addition, the project
invited fund managers to make available information to investors for more than 20 seminars. As a result, throughout 2012, the
investment value in mutual funds via various promotion activities totaled more than THB 6 billion.
3) Matching the right financial opportunities
SET strives to increase new products and services and boost cash flow for securities, including futures, as well as
comprehensively expand post-trade business activities to respond to the needs of businesses and investors and provide options
for new groups of investors under the changing environment and global investment trends.
Increasing products and services
• Equity instruments
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continued to grow and receive
tremendous and continuous attention from investors. In 2012, the Thai
bourse listed three ETFs, namely Thanachart Gold ETF (TGOLDETF),
which invests in gold bullion with gold purity of no less than 99.5 percent,
based on the return rate of the London Gold A.M. Fixing; KTAM Hong
Kong ETF Tracker Open-End Fund (HK), which invests in the Tracker
Fund of Hong Kong, based on the return rate of the Hang Seng Index in
THB currency, and the KTAM-SET Banking ETF Tracker (EBANK), which
invests in banking, based on the SET Banking Sector Index.
As of the end of 2012, the 11 ETFs listed had total assets under
management of THB 8.43 billion an increase of 49 percent from end-2011.
As for derivative warrants (DWs), SET listed new 601 securities in
2012, a rise of 71 percent. A total of 42 securities expired during last
year. At the end of 2012, there were 345 DWs and the number of DW
issuers increased to nine, up by two firms.