Of course, before the privatisation of Dyna-Mac, Lim was actively meeting the wider community. For Seet, he likes the easier access to company management over such casual settings, which makes his job more interesting as he sniffs out undervalued gems. “We get to know each other more on a personal level. I think that this closeness is something that also helped me enjoy this sector more,” says Seet, head of small- and mid-caps at the brokerage, in an interview with The Edge Singapore.
Large companies actively reaching out to the capital markets are known to organise glitzy investor days in fancy ballrooms, where pages of sleek PowerPoint presentations, video, and the like are rolled out to impress analysts and fund managers, encouraging them to take a favourable view of their stock.
For analysts like Jarick Seet of Maybank Securities, who focus on small- and mid-caps, they sometimes find themselves operating in a distinctly different setting. As part of his research on Dyna-Mac Holdings, Lim Ah Cheng, the then executive chairman, met Seet over lor mee at the Tiong Bahru Food Centre.
