The UK-headquartered investments firm adds to a Thailand-based team of analysts managers focusing on Southeast Asia opportunities.

UK-based Waverton Investment Management has appointed Chaiyarit ‘Hoon’ Valyasevi as an analyst, based in the firm’s recently-opened Bangkok representative office. Hoon will join Brook Tellwright and Doug Barnett in uncovering investment opportunities across the Southeast Asian region. Hoon joins from Thailand’s state-owned energy corporation, PTT Public Company Limited where he was responsible for business development. He graduated from Imperial College, London with a Masters in Chemical Engineering (MEng) in 2014.

The company’s Southeast Asian investment strategy employs a high-conviction, bottom-up approach which relies heavily on the analyst team travelling the region meeting the management of companies below the radar of the exchange traded fund and other more passive strategies.

“The added analytical resource that Hoon brings will enable Doug and Brook to spend even more time out in the region uncovering the corporate leaders of ASEAN’s next decade,” Charles Scott Plummer, head of funds at Waverton, said.

Hoon joins from Thailand’s state-owned energy corporation, PTT Public Company Limited where he was responsible for business development. He graduated from Imperial College, London with a Masters in Chemical Engineering (MEng) in 2014.