(24 September 2018. Pasay City, Philippines) SM Investments Corporation (SM) clinched five awards from Alpha Southeast Asia magazine based on a poll of investors.
SM was cited in the following categories under the 8th Annual Institutional Investor Awards for Corporates: Most Organized Investor Relations for the seventh year in a row; Best Senior Management Investor Relations Support for the fifth year; Strongest Adherence to Corporate Governance for the sixth year and Most Consistent Dividend Policy for the second year.
Mr. Jose T. Sio was also named as Best Chief Finance Officer in the Philippines for the sixth year in a row. Mr. Sio is currently the Chairman of SM.
The awards presentation for the Philippine winners was held last September 18 in Singapore.
Alpha Southeast Asia collected votes from more than 513 investors and analysts across the region as well as US & Europe. The participants included fund managers, large institutional investors, insurance companies, pension funds, funds of hedge funds, private banks, equity and fixed income brokers as well as buy and sell-side analysts.
Alpha Southeast Asia is a monthly magazine primarily written for institutional investors, and asset and fund management companies in Hong Kong, Singapore, other parts of Asia, US, Europe and the Middle East. The magazine also has a strong following among the region’s largest local corporates.
Paul Arcenas, SM Vice President for Planning and Corporate Communications (left) receives the awards on behalf of SM.
With him is Siddiq Bazarwala, CEO and Publisher of Alpha Southeast Asia.
About SM Investments Corporation
SM Investments Corporation is a leading Philippine company that is invested in market-leading businesses in retail, banking, and property. It also invests in ventures that capture high growth opportunities in the emerging Philippine economy.
SM’s retail operations are the country’s largest and most diversified with its food, non-food and specialty retail stores. SM’s property arm, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is the largest integrated property developer in the Philippines with interests in malls, residences, offices, hotels and convention centers as well as tourism-related property developments. SM’s interests in banking are in BDO Unibank, Inc., the country’s largest bank and China Banking Corporation, the 7th largest bank.
For more about SM, visit smicweb.smicit.com
For further inquiries, please contact:
Paul Arcenas
VP, Planning and Corporate Communications
SM Investments Corporation
E-mail: paul.arcenas@sminvestments.com
Tel. No. (632) 857-0100 local 1039