Citywire Bangkok Alternatives Briefing 2026

We’re kicking off our 2026 event calendar in Bangkok — this time with a focus on alternatives.

The Citywire Bangkok Alternatives Briefing brings together leading asset management firms to showcase their alternative strategies and share how they’re uncovering opportunities across private markets.

Bringing together professionals in the investment, product, and client departments at Thailand’s banks, wealth managers, brokerages, families, and asset owners. This half-day event features a plenary-style format, where all sessions take place in one room for open discussion and insights.

Join us as we explore what’s next for alternatives in Thailand and beyond. 

We look forward to welcoming you. 

If you are from an asset management firm and interested in attending this event, please contact Cassie Wong regarding sponsorship at cwong@citywireasia.com

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Game-changing insights

Explore practical solutions for compliance, fees, tech adoption and portfolio design.

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Tactical, intimate meetings

Gain market insights through direct conversations with leading fund managers.

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Peer-to-peer networking

Connect with fellow industry leaders to exchange strategies and challenges.

Panodphol Tantawichian

Panellists

Panodphol Tantawichian

Chief Investment Officer, Kasikorn Asset Management

Panodphol Tantawichian, CFA, FRM  is the Chief Investment Officer at Kasikorn Asset Management. With over 24 years of investment experience, he leads the global asset allocation strategy across mutual funds, private funds, and provident funds. He oversees the Multi-Asset, Foreign and Alternative Investment, and Investment Strategy teams. Panodphol drives innovation through core-satellite portfolio construction, cross-border feeder fund solutions, and a strong commitment to investor education.
Roongroj Seksunwiriya

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Roongroj Seksunwiriya

First Senior Vice President of Investment Product, Siam Commercial Bank

As First Senior Vice President of Investment Product at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), Thailand, Roongroj Seksunwiriya has been a driving force behind innovative investment strategies that have helped clients navigate market fluctuations with confidence. His expertise in portfolio diversification, strategic timing, and disciplined investing has led to the development of financial products that align with both short-term opportunities and long-term wealth creation. Throughout his career, he has focused on bridging the gap between traditional investment approaches and modern financial solutions, ensuring that SCB’s offerings remain competitive and forward-thinking. His thought leadership extends to advising institutional and individual investors on risk management, market trends, and sustainable returns, making him an influential figure in Thailand’s financial landscape.
Thidatip Thitikarunwong

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Thidatip Thitikarunwong

Managing Director, Market Head of Thailand, Raffles Family Office

As the Managing Director and Market Head of Thailand at Raffles Family Office, Khun Thidatip Thitikarunwong leads efforts to identify bespoke wealth management solutions to ultra-high-net- worth individuals. With over two decades of experience across global & regional prominent financial institutions including Credit Suisse, CIMB, UOB, and Citi, she brings deep expertise in private banking and wealth management.

She holds a Master’s degree in International Business from the University of Wollongong, Sydney Business School, NSW and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from Srinakharinwirot University. She has been recognized for her leadership in change management, project management and client advisory services.

Vatanyuta Chawengsri

Panellists

Vatanyuta Chawengsri

Vice President and Head of Private Markets and Discretionary Portfolio Management, Kiatnakin Phatra Securities

Vatanyuta Chawengsri is Vice President and Head of Private Markets and Discretionary Portfolio Management at Kiatnakin Phatra Securities. She oversees fund due diligence and selection across Private Markets asset classes and manages clients’ discretionary portfolios. She holds a Master of Science in Finance from Imperial College London and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Thammasat University, Thailand. She is a CFA charterholder.

Presentations

Partners Group
Stonepeak
Wellington Management

Presentations

Partners Group
Stonepeak
Wellington Management

Partners Group

Royalties: The Future of Alternative Income

As private markets strategies expand and specialize, royalties have emerged as an asset class with an estimated market size of USD 2 trillion. This universe offers distinctive characteristics, including low correlation with financial markets, stable yields with downside mitigation, and an embedded inflation hedge.

From ownership of future revenue rights in music and pharmaceuticals to the acquisition of sub-surface rights, Partners Group pioneers a cross-sector approach. This enables diversified exposure across multiple sectors while allowing investment in opportunities with the best relative value at any point in time.

Join Sunnie Yun, Head of Private Wealth Southeast Asia and Korea at Partners Group, as she shares how Royalties capture stable income and growth potential, offering investors an attractive alternative income stream.

Workshop Objectives: To understand how royalty investments provide diversified, low-correlation income with downside protection and inflation resilience, and how a cross-sector approach can capture stable yields and long-term growth potential.

Company Profile: About Partners Group
Partners Group is one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, with around 2,000 professionals and over USD 185 billion in assets under management. The firm has investment programs and custom mandates spanning private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate and royalties. With its heritage in Switzerland and its primary presence in the Americas in Colorado, Partners Group is built differently from the rest of the industry. The firm leverages its differentiated cultures and its operationally oriented approach to identify attractive investment themes and to build businesses and assets into market leaders.
For more information, please visit www.partnersgroup.com or follow us on Linkedin 

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Partners Group
Stonepeak
Wellington Management

Stonepeak

The Power of Private Infrastructure

 Private infrastructure has grown into a more than $1 trillion asset class, playing an increasingly critical role in both institutional and high-net-worth portfolios. As global megatrends reshape economies, infrastructure investment has never been more timely or important, sitting at the center of three transformative themes: digitalization, energy transformation, and the realignment of global supply chains. Join Ryan Chua, Managing Director from Stonepeak – the world’s largest independent infrastructure specialist – for a deep dive into the evolving private infrastructure investment landscape and the opportunities it presents. 

Workshop Objectives: To showcase how private infrastructure investments can deliver resilient, risk-adjusted returns and how private capital is being deployed aligned with the megatrends of digitalization, energy transformation, and supply chain realignment. 

Company Profile: We specialize in infrastructure and real assets, investing capital on behalf of 330+ investors, including pensions, endowments and other large institutions from around the world, looking to grow these critical assets to create value for all stakeholders.

We invest in the infrastructure that underpins our daily lives – the physical assets that power homes, connect communities to the internet, feed families, enable travel, and deliver goods.

Our track record is founded on investing in essential infrastructure that delivers enduring social utility. We work closely with management teams, bringing growth capital, operational expertise, and technologies that help build better businesses and create value for our stakeholders.

SP+ INFRA is a semi-liquid evergreen strategy that provides a one-stop solution for the wealth clients to access the breadth of Stonepeak platform. 

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Partners Group
Stonepeak
Wellington Management

Wellington Management

Venture and growth equity: The future of private-market evergreen structures?

Access to private companies driving innovation in areas like AI, cybersecurity, automation, and blockchain has historically been limited to institutions. Today, that’s changing. New structures such as evergreen vehicles and a growing secondaries market are reshaping the venture capital (VC) and growth equity landscape—now representing about 20% of the broader private equity ecosystem.

This session provides an introductory look at how evergreen vehicles operate within the private‑markets ecosystem and explores how private companies, fundraising models, and asset owners are evolving amid this rapid growth. We’ll also discuss why evergreen vehicles could represent the next evolution in VC and growth equity, and how these developments are creating fresh opportunities for long-term returns and portfolio diversification.

Workshop Objective: To explore the fundamentals of evergreen vehicles in venture and growth equity, and why they may represent the next stage in private markets evolution amid shifting fundraising and ownership models.

Company Profile: Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 2,500 clients in more than 60 countries. The firm manages more than US$1.3 trillion, as of 31 December 2025, for pensions, endowments and foundations, insurers, family offices, fund sponsors, global wealth managers, and other clients. Wellington aspires to provide excellent service to clients through a unique combination of independence enabled by its distinctive private partnership model, diverse perspectives through its unified, multi-asset investment platform, and relentless curiosity and intellectual rigor fostered by its enduring collaborative culture.

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Partners Group
Stonepeak
Wellington Management

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Partners

Cohen & Steers

Founded in 1986, Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income. A pioneer in listed real estate investing, the firm’s expertise extends to listed infrastructure, natural resource equities, preferred securities, and multi-strategy real assets. With $90.9 billion in assets under management, Cohen & Steers has a track record of consistently delivering alpha for its institutional and wealth clients worldwide. The firm’s strength lies in having one of the industry’s largest dedicated teams, with 84 investment professionals averaging more than 20 years of experience.
Liyen Wee

Liyen Wee

Head of Wealth Asia Pacific

Liyen Wee is Head of Wealth, Asia Pacific, responsible for managing relationships with financial intermediaries. She has 20 years of experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2023, Ms. Wee was with Lazard where she led the Southeast Asia and wholesale distribution business. Previously, she held various distribution roles at Amundi, Aberdeen, and Lion Global Investors. Ms. Wee has a BA from the University of California Irvine and is based in Singapore.

Agenda

  1. 08:40 - 09:10am

    Networking and Registration

  2. 09:10 - 09:15am

    Welcome Remarks

  3. 09:15 - 09:50am

    Panel Session: Beyond the Fund Shelf: How Thailand’s Allocators Are Bringing Private Markets to Clients The growing adoption of alternative investment strategies is reshaping wealth portfolios, providing access to new return streams and diversification benefits. How are Thailand’s private wealth asset allocators incorporating alternatives into client portfolios? Where are they currently finding the best opportunities, whether in private markets or hedge funds, and how do they manage liquidity considerations? Are semi-liquid funds taking all the private markets flows or is there still a place for traditional drawdown strategies? After a year in which public markets have reignited, how attractive is the more stable return profile of alternatives and what challenges do wealth managers in communicating their benefits?

  4. 09:55 - 10:25am

    Fund Manager Presentation 1

  5. 10:30 - 11:00am

    Fund Manager Presentation 2

  6. 11:00 - 11:10am

    Coffee & Networking Break

  7. 11:10 - 11:40am

    Fund Manager Presentation 3

  8. 11:40

    Lunch Buffet

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