Go beyond fundamentals, technicals for stock selection: Maybank KE

Singapore

INSTEAD of looking at fundamentals and technicals of stocks, investors should rely on alternative data as well as a company's management and balance sheets to benefit from the current economic climate, said Thilan Wickramasinghe, Maybank Kim Eng's head of research.

Mr Wickramasinghe was speaking at Maybank KE's Invest Asean conference that took place online on Thursday.

"There is a fairly big gap between what you're seeing in the real economy and what the market is seeing," he said. The optimism from the reopening of e…

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