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Annual Report 2012
Highlight of activities for 2012
Communication and
information publishing
channels to investors
and the public
• Held SET in the City, which was a meeting place between potential and current investors on the
one hand and, on the other hand, various parties involved in the capital market, e.g., brokerages,
listed firms, and asset management companies. Such events enabled participants to easily interact,
learn about saving and investing, and become more involved in the capital market. In 2012, SET
in the City took place three times: in Phuket, Udon Thani, and lastly in Bangkok, with a total of
132,500 participants and 17,400 transactions taking place.
• Held Opportunity Days for listed companies after they reported their quarterly operating results to
SET, so that the firms could provide timely and accurate information to analysts, investors and the
press and acquire information directly from entrepreneurs. All these events resulted in a total
of 13,947 investors, 2,081 analysts and 2,288 media representatives participating. In addition,
SET provided convenient channels for live broadcasts via
and smartphones. In 2012,
a total of 175 companies participated in live broadcasts, up by 13 percent from 2011, with 261,948
persons from 118 countries accessing live or archived broadcasts.
Moreover, in 2012, SET launched the OppDay application on iPads to give another information
access channel for SET’s highly-popular Opportunity Day event, so investors could download
key information of all listed companies as presented on Factsheets.
• Expanded Money Expo, to present information on products and services of the SET group to
investors and the public. In 2012, SET organized Money Expo in total of four times in all regions,
in Chiangmai, Songkla, Nakhon Ratchasima and Bangkok.
• January 23, 2012 introduced the Trading Alert List, a list of securities showing unusual movement
of prices and trading volumes compared with the previous trading session, to warn investors about
unusual movements. Lists are announced via the SET web-based online information system,
SETSMART, and
• January 30, 2012, introduced a straight-through system to increase the speed of information
dissemination and obtain equality in getting information for investment. This is a standard enhancement
for information disclosure to be in line with leading stock exchanges in the Asian region.
• Introduced the trading application Settrade Streaming for Android for investors to more easily
trade equities and derivatives real-time via smart phones and tablets.
3.3 Employees
Employees are valuable assets of the Exchange. SET continues to seek capable and experienced personnel in line with its
growth and the demands of the organization. As of December 31, 2012, SET had 721 full-time staff, with a 7.8% turnover in 2012.
Developing employees
• SET has continually developed employees by providing training and development programs to enhance their competency
and provide career advancement opportunities. In 2012, SET provided 53 in-house training courses, totaling 2,111 man-days, with
80 percentage of all staff attended training courses at a total cost of THB 6,612,000. Training programs are focused on developing
the leadership or managerial, strategic planning, customer-centric, or functional skills needed in each position.
