PHL needs broader investor base to mitigate volatile flows – BPI

STRENGTHENING the Philippine investor base could help mitigate any potential volatility when investment flows dry up, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Wealth Chief Investment Officer Luis Antonio Zialcita said.

- Aaron Michael C. Sy

“I guess one of the key things that we have to achieve... is a stronger local investor base. At this point in time, markets are very dependent on flows,” Mr. Zialcita said at a panel discussion at the Philippine Investment Conference 2025.

Other parts of the world economy, including those in Southeast Asia, have become more important as the US tariffs weigh on its economy’s trade with other countries, PwC China Economist Dr. Jackie Yan said in the same panel.

“In my view, I don’t see it as decoupling. I just see it as both decoupling and recoupling. It’s just a transformation of the global supply chain,” he said.