The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) held THAILAND FOCUS 2026, the country’s largest annual investment conference, marking the 20th anniversary of this event.
This milestone reflects two decades of strong collaboration among the SET, securities firms, listed companies, and global institutional investors.
Over 20 years, Thailand Focus has become a leading international investment conference in Thailand, trusted as a platform to showcase the strength, adaptability, and long-term potential of the Thai capital market.
Assadech Kongsiri, Director and Managing Director of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), said this year’s Thailand Focus marks an important milestone, serving as a main platform linking global investment partners with Thai listed companies to share the country’s development direction and future preparedness.
Overall investor interest this year has improved significantly and positively compared to the challenges faced at the same time last year.
However, meetings with global institutional investors revealed that foreign fund managers have never abandoned or lost interest in Thailand. They continue to see the Thai economy as fundamentally strong with highly promising long-term potential, keeping foreign institutions attentive to the Thai capital market.
Today, foreign institutional investors are increasingly clear and positive, showing renewed strong interest in investing in Thailand this year.
This is reflected in the SET Index rising to 1,600 points from 1,200 points last year, a robust nearly 30% increase, marking outstanding growth.
Meanwhile, the average daily trading value has surged above 2 billion US dollars, recovering from some days last year when it fell below 1 billion US dollars.
Moreover, since the start of 2026, foreign fund flows have turned positive with net inflows exceeding 2 billion US dollars, or about 60 billion baht, reversing last year’s net outflows and sell-offs.
Assadech revealed that ultimately, the most crucial factor to attract and sustain foreign investor confidence is the economic fundamentals and the actual performance of listed companies.
"Sales and revenue figures are the proof of strength. If businesses communicate their growth plans, it is essential they work together to deliver real results that match those announcements," Assadech added.
Additionally, the Jump+ project has received excellent feedback from foreign institutional investors, who see it as an innovative initiative by the SET to drive sustainable growth.
This project encourages listed companies to clearly present their three-year growth plans alongside good corporate governance and sustainability.
At this event, 15 Jump+ listed companies participated, providing information to investors, aiming to be a key mechanism to attract global investment attention.
Regarding sectors attracting institutional foreign investors, Assadech noted that while AI-related industries remain a global market highlight, the Thai capital market’s banking sector has drawn significant foreign interest over the past 2-3 months.
This is due to its strength and investor appeal, with additional suggestions to consider revising the foreign ownership limit currently capped at 25%, which some see as slightly restrictive.
Furthermore, the energy sector and industries set to benefit indirectly from new BOI investment waves are also under close foreign investor scrutiny.
To prepare for the upcoming IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting in Thailand this October, the SET aims to use Thailand Focus as a starting point to generate continued interest and attract investment flows into Asia and ASEAN.
Past ASEAN cooperation has yielded concrete results through a DR project with Singapore and is expanding to connect with other regional stock markets exploring regulatory harmonization.
Discussions also include developing possibilities such as dual listing or simultaneous IPOs (Joint IPOs), as well as developing shared environmental, social, and governance standards and centralized data under the ASEAN Exchanges network to deliver unified information to global investors.
Assadech disclosed that ASEAN stock markets are currently studying a joint index project with China called the "ASEAN Index," structured with 60% weighting from China’s Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen markets and 40% from ASEAN markets including Thailand.
This project has policy support from the Chinese government to facilitate smoother and more flexible Chinese investment flows into ASEAN, initially expected via ETFs, with clearer details to emerge in the future.
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