Pancharas Siwarapornsakul

Principal Thailand is an active, fundamentals-based manager which conducts bottom-up analysis to select stocks. They utilize their global investment connections and their integrated technology platform to deliver new investment ideas and innovative products. The firm constructs portfolios based on qualitative and quantitative analyses. Risk management control and good corporate governance is their corporate philosophy.

SCBAM’s portfolio management process includes top-down approach with a strategic and tactical asset allocation; and bottom-up approach which uses research driven ideas from fund managers and analysts. They have an investment committee who conducts their investment process. The firm manages fixed-income funds by using an active management style, deploying a credit process, portfolio diversification considerations, market risk budgeting and monitoring process and liquidity risk management. For their equity fund management, SCBAM uses an active management process and a passive management process.