Title : Private Equity in the Energy Sector by Thananchai Sajjaporamest
Date : November,01 2009

Investing in commodities has always been beneath private equity funds. LBO bankers are quick to use words like commoditization and commodities in a depreciative manner citing that commodities are commonplace and do not provide differentiation. Therefore, profiting from commodities is done purely through price because there is no value-additive in pure commodities.

Title : Thailand’s Big Bang, Money&Wealth Magazine by Daechapon Lersuwanaroj
Date : April,01 2009

Building demolition experts know this well: it only takes a few sticks of dynamites in the right places to bring down a tall building. It’s all about structure. It’s not even that loud. Poof! And the building crumbles into tiny rocks and dusts.

Title : Nova Bolsa – Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Money&Wealth Magazine
By: Piraporn Vanichpun
Date : February,01 2009

Back in 1958, the American Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim merged Jazz and Samba music to create a new genre called Bossa Nova assembling the husband-wife pairing João and Astrud Gilberto singing classics such as The Girl From Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) and Corcovado (Quiet Nights). Notwithstanding recycling and re-compositions by subsequent generations, the Bossa Nova movement only lasted for a little over five years.

Title : Profiting From Black Swans, Money&Wealth Magazine by Rewin Pataibanlue
Date : January,01 2009

In case you haven't heard this one before: "if you are going to invest, then invest after a crisis and not before it". If only someone gets this right they'll save themselves a lot of money and possibly make much more from it. A recent literature on this strategy is the preparation for what the mathematical trader Nicolas Nassim Taleb calls The Black Swan.

Title : ATS, ECN, Dark-Pool, BATS, LiquidNet – What Next? SkyNet?, Money&Wealth Magazine
By: Tanik Tarawisid and Nutwadee Hemsoraj
Date : January,01 2009

In the same ways that the fictional Skynet – the computer system that created these android assassins - is antagonistic to the human race, electronic exchanges have a long unsympathetic history with human traders. They queue orders in voluminous batches, they match orders on real time, they report back faster, they’re honest, and they provide a level ground field (alas, égalité over fraternité) for any common person who cares to trade. They also put jobbers and floor traders at NYSE, CME, LSE you name them out of their jobs.

Title : The Wharton Asia Business Conference 2008
Date : November,08 2008

Our senior partner, Pakpoom Vallisuta, recently (8th November 2008) spoke at The Wharton Asia Business Conference at The Park Hyatt, Philadelphia, on the Investment Banking Panel on Mergers & Acquisitions in Asia.
For more information please visit: http://www.whartonglobal.com/asia/speakers/pakpoom.html

Title : What A Difference A Year Makes, Money&Wealth Magazine by Rewadee Chaihetphon
Date : November,01 2008

“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.” wrote, Mark Twain, the 19th century American humorist in Pudd’nHead Wilson published in 1894. A hundred plus years later, such satire is still just as cruel except this time around it is global.

Title : KKR: Turning a private giant into a public giant
Date : September,01 2008

KKR ซึ่งเป็นยักษ์ใหญ่วงการ Private Equity ที่เก่าแก่ที่สุดแห่งหนึ่งของโลกได้ประกาศแผนที่จะนำ KKR ที่โดยปกติจะดำเนินธุรกิจ Buyout อย่างเงียบๆมากว่า 30 ปี

Title : The changing wind of Private Equity
Date : August,01 2008

จากราคาน้ำมันและอัตราเงินเฟ้อที่ปรับตัวสูงขึ้น สภาพเศรษฐกิจที่ชะลอตัว ข่าวเกี่ยวกับการปิดกิจการของธุรกิจและการลดค่าของสินทรัพย์ของธนาคารในสหรัฐอเมริกา รวมถึง...

Title : Commodity Exchange, sell like hot cakes
Date : August,01 2008

คงไม่มีอะไรที่จะสื่อถึงวลี "Sell like hot cakes" ในโลกการเงินและการลงทุนได้ดีเท่า Commodity Market ในปัจจุบันนี้ ในไตรมาสแรกของปีนี้มูลค่าของอนุพันธ์ของ Commodity รวมถึง Futures และ Options ได้เพิ่มขึ้นถึง 52%