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Roadshows abroad
To promote the Thai listed companies among
foreign investors, SET, in cooperation with securities
companies, continued to organize roadshows in order
to provide a platform for listed companies, mostly
medium and small-scale companies, to meet with and
present data to investors. There were altogether 123
listed companies participating in the various events,
representing 75 percent of the total market capitalization
value. A number of them met with foreign institutional
Listed companies
Increase in number of listed companies
In 2014, SET continued to promote and encourage
quality companies to mobilize funds through initial
public offering (IPO) and get listed on SET. 45 IPOs
were raised, comprising 16 companies listed on SET,
20 companies on mai, six property funds, and three
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). It was for the
first year that three REITs were listed on SET, as a new
funding vehicle through the private sector’s property
investors in eight different occasions, especially SET
Thai Corporate Day and Thailand Focus, including
the meetings with foreign fund managers in Canada,
France, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, the
United Kingdom and the United States of America. On
top of this, the delegation team were representatives
from the public sector, namely the Deputy Prime Minister,
the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Thailand in
order to provide information to investors.
management, and being the first time in ten years that
marked the highest number of REIT and mutual funds
listed on SET with the total value at IPOs of THB 60.52
billion. In 2014, there were THB 304.8 billion market
capitalization raised from initial public offerings, and
the combined fundraising was THB 113.9 billion.