Michael Beltran

[MANILA] SM Prime Holdings – a major developer of malls and offices in the Philippines – is planning to launch the listing of its first real estate investment trust (Reit) later this year.

[MANILA] Banks in the Philippines continue to bankroll fossil fuel and coal projects mostly by issuing bonds, and they are doing so at an advanced rate that is detrimental to the country’s long-term c...

The Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) – the proposed sovereign wealth fund of the Philippines – continues to face plenty of resistance in the Senate, as lawmakers butt heads over its feasibility and imp...

[MANILA] The inflation rate in the Philippines reached a 14-year high of 8.1 per cent in December, but the central bank has expressed confidence that it can be brought down to below 4 per cent by as e...

[MANILA] Business leaders and economic analysts in the Philippines have criticised the plans by the government to establish a sovereign wealth fund that’s being backed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr...

The Philippine peso – one of the worst performing currencies in Asia this year – depreciated against the US dollar for a third consecutive trading day on Monday (Sep 5) to reach a new all-time low.

AFTER an impressive first quarter in which the Philippines saw better-than-expected growth of 8.3 per cent, the country’s central bank believes the economy is poised to perform even better in the comi...