About us
Alpha Southeast Asia was established in August 2006 and for almost twenty years now, is the first and only institutional investment online magazine focused on Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), written for Europe, Asia and US-based investors.
In July 2025, we will celebrate our 20th year as a purely Southeast Asian focused institutional investment and transactional banking platform, since our humble beginnings in late-2006.
Unlike at least three other leading regional financial capital markets platforms we do not write about Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India. Instead our focus is purely on Southeast Asia.
Over the last two decades, we have formed a strong readership profile among investors and CFOs across the region and globally – interested in understanding the region further. HNWIs and white-collar professionals have also found our articles a good alternative as opposed to what is widely available in the mainstream regional financial press today.
We are also behind the widely publicised Corporate Institutional Investor Poll, the only financial magazine to publish a Southeast Asian focused institutional investor poll on well-managed companies in the region naming both, well-perceived and controversially – poorly perceived companies in the region.
In terms of ownership, we are not funded by any large media groups and thus, not pressured by deep-pocket influential advertisers and/or banks. For details, email musa@whatinvestorswant.com
AWARDS CALENDAR
key dates for benchmark awards
20th Best FI Awards
19th Treasury & FX Awards
18th Islamic Finance Awards
17th Fund Management Awards
Invite: Friday, 3 April 2026
Deadline: Monday, 4 May 2026
Announcement: Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Event: Late June 2026
16th Corporate-Institutional Investor Awards
Polling: Early February 2026
Collate: Mid April 2026
Announcement: Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Event: Late June 2026
Inaugural Sustainability Awards
19th Deal & Solution Awards
19th ESG/Green Finance Awards
19th Transaction Banking Awards
Invite: Monday, 3 November 2025
Deadline: Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Announcement: Friday, 12 December 2025
Event: Early February 2026











