Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hasapproved a project to restructure the stock market until 2020 with a vision to2025, with an aim to make it an important channel for middle- and long-term capitalregulation.
The project’s objectives include building a reasonable andbalanced structure of the monetary and capital markets, and between the stockmarket and Government bond market, as well as the Government bond and businessbond markets.
Positive support will be given to the restructuring of State-ownedenterprises, the economic growth model, the development of the private sector,and the strengthening of opening and integration with the regional and worldmarkets.
Alongside, the project also targets a stock market scaleequivalent to 100 percent of the GDP in 2020 and 120 percent in 2025, and thatof bond market reaching 47 percent of the GDP in 2020 and 55 percent in 2025.
The number of listed firms is expected to rise 20 percent in2020 compared to that in 2017, while that of investors is hoped to reach 3percent of the population in 2020 and 5 percent in 2025.
The project aims to ensure a proper percentage betweenindividual and institutional investors, and between domestic and foreign ones,while promoting the growth of the number of professional investors in the stockmarket.
Under the project, stock market products will be diversified,with the introduction of covered warrants, bond futures and future contracts onnew codes outside the VN30 group before 2020.
The project also gives eight solutions to stock marketrestructuring, including completing the legal foundation, restructuring theinvestors in the stock market, as well as enhancing the role of tradeorganizations.-VNA
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