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Marcos’s Investment Fund Dilemma

Creating the Maharlika Investment Fund was easy, but where are the private investors?

Oct 23, 2023
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By: Viswa Nathan
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Speculation abounds in the Philippines over President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s suspension last week (October 18) of his controversial plan to launch a sovereign wealth fund, the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). The explanation that the president and his team have found ways to make “more improvements…specifically to the organizational …

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