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• Increasing business opportunities for listed companies to create attractiveness for the Thai bourse.
In the third quarter of 2012, SET organized Thailand Focus, which has been organized for six consecutive years with Phatra
Securities PCL and Bank of America Merrill Lynch under the theme “Thailand Focus 2012: Positioning Thailand for the Next Growth
Phase”, highlighting two aspects, namely Next Growth Phase and Positioning. The Next Growth Phase presented important
opportunities for Thai listed companies as economic vulnerability in other regions has made Asian markets more attractive,
especially the Thai bourse, which has demonstrated outstanding performance in terms of liquidity and firms, while government
policies, particularly basic infrastructure projects, have been helping upgrade the economy and profitability potential of Thai
companies.
The other aspect was Positioning, or the demographic location of Thailand in the center of ASEAN and Indochina, both
of which have enjoyed high economic growth. SET will continue to serve as a key source to mobilize funds for Thai companies to
expand regionally. Thailand Focus 2012 attracted a record number of participants worldwide. This event was the first-ever to
present regional markets in Indochina together, as SET invited four Indochinese stock markets and their listed companies to
participate. Thailand Focus 2012 attracted a total of 122 international institutional investors and 89 listed companies in Thailand
with 1,065 meetings held during the event.
• Roadshows attracting investors from major countries and targeting new groups of investors.
In 2012, SET concentrated on working proactively with government agencies and the private sector to expand the base of
international investors and encourage foreign institutional investors to increase their investment in the Thai capital market. Thus,
SET organized six overseas roadshows and brought Thai listed companies to meet the institutional investors, sovereign wealth
management funds and supervisory agencies from financial centers worldwide, such as Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, and new targeted groups such as Australia, China, India and Middle East
countries to provide information about Thailand’s economic status and development of the Thai stock exchange.
The roadshows reaffirmed the attractiveness of the Thai market to those already invested in Thailand and presented Thailand
as another investment option to new institutional investors. Audiences were interested in Thailand’s economic condition, which had
quickly recovered from the massive floods of late 2011, and strong Thai listed firms, as seen from their upbeat operational results.
In addition, the economic growth in the region is set to grow further thanks to the upcoming regional economic integration.
During the roadshows in 2012, 27 companies participated and presented information on their companies, with more than 500
international institutional investors participating in the events.