First Metro opens new investors’ facility in Makati

MANILA, Philippines - First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC), the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, has opened a new investors’ facility in Makati to make its investment products become accessible to more retail investors.

The new Investors Center Makati is a one-stop investment hub open to both big and small investors, offering easier access to information and investment products and services that the First Metro Group offers.

First Metro Group’s products and services include indicative investment rates from the company’s treasury financial instruments, First Metro Asset Management Inc.  (FAMI) Save and Learn mutual funds, First Metro Securities online stock trading facility, and the First Metro Philippine Equity exchange-traded fund (First Metro ETF), the country’s first ever exchange-traded fund.

FMIC said its own investment professionals are readily available in the center to provide investment solutions and financial guidance through investment advisory tailored to the client’s individual needs and wants, as well as analyses on current and expected market conditions.

“We are happy to be bringing here in Makati the First Metro Investors Center, as we are hoping to educate and aid more people to invest, manage their investments, or have their own portfolio investments in this central business district,” FMIC president Roberto Juanchito Dispo said.

The Investors Center Makati is located at the 19th floor of the PSBank Center along Paseo de Roxas Avenue in Makati City together with the newly-reconstructed offices of First Metro subsidiaries FAMI and First Metro Securities Brokerage Corp.

FMIC’s first investors’ center was inaugurated in 2011 at the ground floor of the Wellington Building in Binondo as part of the company’s mission to broaden its market base, particularly in the retail sector.

In the same year, a branch was launched in Cebu City, at the ground floor of the Metrobank Plaza on Osmeña Boulevard.

FMIC said it plans to launch other centers in strategic locations nationwide in the coming years.

FMIC and its subsidiaries offer a wide range of services, from debt and equity underwriting to loan syndication, project finance, financial advisory, investment advisory, government securities and corporate debt trading, equity brokering, online trading, asset management, and research.