The Philippine Stock Exchange plans to allow the trading of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) securities by the second half of the year as part of efforts to make more products available to investors. The bourse said this will make such investment opportunity open to ordinary investors who may want to contribute to the improvement of the country’s infrastructure. PSE chief operating officer Roel Refran said that PPP securities will be available to both retail and institutional investors. “We only have to meet and discuss with the new PPP Center Executive Director Andre “Raj” Palacios, after Cosette Canilao resigned. We just have to make sure that our vision and our timeline are aligned with his,” Refran said. “This is actually a good investment because, besides realizing income from these kinds of investments, they actually see tangible results, they would see their respective investments in roads, railways, bridges and even airports,” Refran said. [...]
