Foreign investors to meet in annual investment conference

More than 250 financial experts and investors from Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, the US and the EU will attend the second foreign investment conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 4
Foreign investors to meet in annual investment conference ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – More than 250 financial experts and investors from Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, the US and the EU will attend the second foreign investment conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 4.

Co-hosted by the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) and financial data provider Stoxplus, the annual conference themed “Vietnam Stock Market: On the Way to Emerging Markets” will discuss promoting Vietnam’s securities market to an emerging market (EM) classification.

HOSE Deputy General Director Tran Anh Dao said foreign investors will be provided with information about Vietnamese government activities to accelerate the upgrade Vietnam’s securities market to EM status.

They will learn more about a regulation allowing them to increase up to 100 percent of voting shares in a Vietnamese public company.

A majority of foreign investors agreed that Vietnam is increasingly attractive thanks to its economic stability and the high potential of its private sector.-VNA

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