Fund managers urged to build financial platform for the poor

REPRESENTATIVE Arthur Yap (3rd District, Bohol) has urged fund managers to help build a financial structure that focuses on agriculture for the 40 percent of Filipinos living below the poverty line, so that the country could sustain its strong economic growth.

In a keynote speech at 10th Annual Convention of the Fund Managers’ Association of the Philippines (FMAP), on the island-resort of Boracay, Yap stressed that no sector should take advantage of another in the Philippines, a country of more than 100 million.