The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) will hold the annual big investment festival “SET in the City” in Bangkok on November 22-25, under the concept “Your Investment Vision: the investment world you can access,” to match the right financial opportunities for investors. This year’s event will focus on encouraging clients to change their investment ideas to catch up with innovation though full-range investment service.
The festival, held for the eighth time, also offers 50 intensive seminars by 100 investment gurus, while 100 leading financial firms provide information to boost opportunities for investors throughout the four-day event on November 22-25, at Siam Paragon department store. This year’s concept “Your Investment Vision: investment world you can access” aims to centralize modern and full-range financial and investment service.
“Currently, there are a total of 763,374 securities accounts in the Thai capital market, up by 63,149 from last year. We see that the growth prospects are promising as we currently are liberalizing investment and the Thai capital market has products and services entirely suitable for all dimensions of investment. Moreover, SET performed well in the first nine months of this year, being the best performer in Asia and the world’s second best performer. These attractions have raised investment among both domestic and foreign investors. Thus, we have to put emphasis on enhancing investment analysis with accurate and useful information to boost opportunities for investors. We expect SET in the City will draw more than 150,000 investors and the general public, with more than 19,000 transactions being conducted,” SET President Charamporn Jotikasthira said.
The event will focus on providing information that is easy to understand and access through several activities, enabling investors to catch up with financial innovations, including in securities, derivatives, bonds, mutual funds, and insurance to learn about all products and investment services, as well as to get five menus listing picks for different types of stock, and stock shopping lists from leading brokers. Investors can become familiar with Internet trading through Streaming Pro developed for the PC, iPhone, iPad, Android, SmartPhone, including new features with more convenient and faster.
Program participants will be introduced to new derivatives products, such as Sector Futures, modified SET50 Futures and SET50 Options, and USD Futures. In addition, there will exhibition booths from more than 100 listed firms, commercial banks, and securities companies showing the investment world to participants. This year’s event will also provide free mobile application “SETactivity” to help investors access all key activity of SET Group throughout the year which they can download from iPhone and Andriod on SET in the City 2012 event.
For more information, please call S-E-T Call Center 0 2229 2222 and www.set.or.th/setinthecity or mobile application “SETactivity.”
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Date 05/11/2012